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the entire management of the Jardin des Plantes, and he 

 had been named president of the Academy of Sciences 

 very shortly before his death. As Adrien de Jussieu 

 has left no sons to inherit his name, in him is extin- 

 guished a scientific dynasty which for three generations 

 has constituted the glory of the Academy of Sciences 

 and of the Jardin des Plantes. (See the Notices of 

 M. Adrien de Jussieu by MM. A. Brongniart and 

 Decaisne.) 



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