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which there are more than 3500, are small and badly 

 executed. A large proportion of them are ultimately 

 derived from those of Fuchs. 



Jean Bauhin's more famous brother, Gaspard [or Caspar] 

 (Plate XI), was born in 1560, and was thus the younger 

 by nineteen years. Gaspard studied at Basle, Padua, 

 Montpelier, Paris and Tubingen. He also travelled in 

 Italy, making observations upon the flora, and becoming 

 acquainted with scientific men. Unfortunately he missed 

 being a pupil of Leonhard Fuchs, since his sojourn at 

 Tubingen took place some years after the death of the 

 famous herbalist, who had been his brother's teacher. The 

 illness and death of his father in 1582 made it necessary 

 for him to settle in Basle, where he became Professor of 

 Botany and Anatomy, and eventually of Medicine. 



Inspired by the example of his brother, he conceived 

 the plan of collecting, in a single work, all that had been 

 previously written upon plants, and, especially, of drawing 

 up a concordance of all the names given by different 

 authors to the same species. His extensive early travels 

 served as a good preparation for this task, since he had 

 not only observed and collected widely, but had established 

 relations with the best botanists in Europe. He formed 

 a herbarium of about 4000 plants, including specimens 

 from correspondents in many countries, even Egypt and 

 the East Indies. Besides study bearing directly on his 

 great project, he accomplished a considerable amount of 

 critical and editorial work, which also had its value in 

 relation to his main plan. He produced new editions of 

 Mattioli's Commentaries, and of the herbal of Tabernaemon- 

 tanus, and published a criticism of d'Al^champs' ' Historia 

 plantarum.' 



There is a marked parallelism between the careers of 

 the Bauhin brothers, for Gaspard's great work underwent 

 much the same vicissitudes as that of Jean. The main 

 part of Gaspard's chief work never saw the light at all, 

 although his son brought out one instalment of it, many 

 years after his father's death. Gaspard was however more 

 fortunate than Jean, in that he lived to see the publication 

 of three important preliminary volumes, as the result of his 

 researches, and it is on these that his reputation rests. 



