182 MEMOIRS OF 



beauty with general interest. M. Lemonnier, 

 the subject of the second, was head physician 

 to Louis XVI., and a botanist ; he spent the 

 greater part of his life in trying to introduce 

 useful plants and trees into France ; he solaced 

 the poor, and received no reward from them ; 

 he courageously visited his unfortunate master 

 when in prison, and, at eiglity-tvvo years of age, 

 died at the herb shop which he had established 

 in order to obtain a livelihood, but where he had 

 been watched over by his nieces with the most 

 devoted attachment, and visited by his friends, 

 who thought his old age rendered doubly ho- 

 nourable by this independent mode of existence. 

 M. I'Heritier was also a botanist, but of an- 

 other description, being a strict follower of the 

 system and nomenclature of Linnaeus. A cu- 

 rious anecdote, related in this ^loge, forcibly 

 developes the character of the man, and at the 

 same time shows the relation he had with Eng- 

 land. Always seeking after fresh acquisitions in 

 his favourite science, and delighting in a know- 

 ledge of foreign plants, he heard that Dombey 

 had returned from Peru and Chili with an im- 

 mense collection, for the publication of which 

 he had long sought the necessary funds. L'He- 

 ritier obtained the herbarium from Dombey, 



