BARON CUVIER. IQl 



to attach too much importance to his individual 

 sentiments, in matters where the most important 

 of all feelings ought to be the love of peace." 



The subject of the succeeding eloge, M. Cels, 

 was a practical botanist and scientific agricul- 

 turist, to whom Paris owes the celebrated garden 

 which bears his name : from him emanated some 

 excellent laws on agricultural interests. 



No one but a profound naturalist could have 

 appreciated the merits of M. Adanson ; and no 

 one but an impartial and penetrating biographer 

 could have separated his great and rare perfec- 

 tions, from that peculiarity and exaggeration of 

 ideas which led him into error. This traveller 

 visited Senegal, because it is the most difficult of 

 access, the most unhealthy, and, in all respects, 

 the most dangerous of all the French colonies, 

 and, consequently, was the least known to na- 

 turalists ; the continent of Africa was therefore 

 the scene of his discoveries,. and to him we owe 

 our perfect knowledge of that giant of the vege- 

 table world, the Baobab, or, in proper terms, the 

 Adansonia digitata. 



M. Broussonet, Professor of Botany to the 

 School of Medicine at Montpelier, was called to 

 the Institute by the section of zoology and 



