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name of his father and great uncles would find a worthy 

 representative in him. As a youth he carried off the 

 the first prize in the concours which takes place every 

 year among the colleges of Paris, and as a young man he 

 presented as his thesis for the degree of doctor in medi- 

 cine a memoir on the family of the Euphorbiacese which 

 attracted the attention of all botanists. Subsequently 

 in his researches on the Rutaceae, Meliacese and Mal- 

 pighiacese, he developed still further the most marked 

 qualities of a sagacious and profound intellect. In these 

 different memoirs, and especially in the last, the author 

 accompanied the description of the species with a full 

 account of the anatomy of the organs and their physio- 

 logical functions. A memoir on the embryo of the 

 Monocotyledons, a work of very considerable extent, was 

 to have formed the first of a series of publications on si- 

 milar subjects, for which the author had collected a very 

 large amount of materials, but ill health prevented the 

 realisation of this and many other projects. .Adrien de 

 Jussieu published a Cours Elementaire de Botanique 

 which was speedily translated into all the principal 

 European languages. It was his intention to have 

 extended this work into a complete and general treatise, 

 and it is much to be regretted that the prosecution of 

 this object was arrested by his death. 



Adrien de Jussieu rendered continual services to 

 science, not only by his writings but by his teaching. 

 In the various botanical excursions which he undertook 

 he was often accompanied by distinguished men who 

 rejoiced in the opportunity of witnessing that display of 

 profound learning, combined with one of the most 

 amiable and gentle natures, for which he was remarkable. 

 These characteristics insured to Adrien de Jussieu the 

 attachment of all who were brought in contact with him. 

 The esteem of his colleagues led them to resign to him 



