be desirable that the Government should | а living: out of ed ; 
' Candolle was of course e prese at the various 
= which it would he accordingly entered into an| M. De з 
шоого а a series of reimos Ed I esi gent arrangement with Lamarck to superintend a new | scientific meeting 8 бү: occurred during his stay in 
the ышту, partly i suba barrio provement of | edition of his "Flore Française.” This became nearly | London ; M we is ару, of the Roya Society, 
ин of котчу жт А t premise that the mode E a new wor rk in his hands; he entir ely dccem it, and | both as interesting i шщ, itself, and 2 — ing t e im- 
Conor native Cotto. К has bo en suggested by honda AA E ol s to the | pression made upon a stranger. cet too! ер me tw 
padale, who opel : ide ba endo hat gentleman | Origin He was largely ind gratuitously or three times to the meetings Py the Royal Society. 
wollector of Сой! i Кы. Еа Ловиса eseted i in ЖО; labours by a youn gl botanis t of the n | They take place in the eveni va d are so кырак ted 
communicated f Стун op take out those seeds ёо | оЁ Léman, who gave up two ог в to be entirely devoid ofi in est. The memoi 
Жүзүнө fibres are attached, establishing a minimum | week ^ adi in arranging the collections which arrived read by the S 
length of fibre, and throwing orc rr nrc итек eri pter di t a task in which he t interest in them; no discussion бна 
h this stan ; these selecte P MAP 
4 eer, оен rop, and Ta көй деа m will be | during the whole time that M. De Candolle : y of them, nor is the 'attention ме һу 
ith thi length being increased every ini: u ied w x ith the Flor: any в ecimens of the obj ects descr ibed. The mbers 
fllowed with this, poe ihe c Pub of a few years it 15 probabl P 1 1 y pe J 4 
eri ome d addition w ill bi made. i6 he length "n ep s 
e to the fineness of the fibre, and it will then be easy of m vier, to which Ys calls attention as bein 
e seed of the improved kind over the whole of the | on TN physiology ever delivered in France. o m time to i, when the name deas js 
Baras Gomon, i lds Vu st sq) VID ко л. Кыш the completion of the Flora, it became evident апошні or the thanks of ora "Society. given 
ГА 1 зыны show- | that m the present jJ bé book. During гер те the 
rn лик; development о of ys ca dn the placenta | and 1 fficient the G 1 along the benches offer to the 
rimi ети Also, a portio: vii Er орру ар М. Ace to pay his expenses eripe a series 1 sed urn in which diar vote for or 
m im: : i Tra ghe: дата; A vos sel corresp énding Ub inio some hitherto шн "oality, with a view t g t M, and whose names 
of junction E ontiguous carp Ул рану aper d upply the missing lin What I 1 up du the regulated 
Eiern Ene b been imagined. From those ribs are given of | and тапу others СИДА ра on his own account, Юе! time. Nothing can monotonous or lifeless 
К f the wall, ll as those ramifyin, y g 
й е асај тено коте T obs 9po rami ymg Lm Ире. Seems seldom to have passed a a year wi ithout | than these meetings, but they strongly attracted me on 
placeni m 
EE me e congenia Eja compan On one of these occasions, | the brilliant series of works of which the Societ y can 
e Jura with. Biot and аа, the party prominent part which it plays in the 
jAotítes of Books. 
Memoires et Souvenirs g i P. De ба 
par lui-méme. Geneva, J. Cherbuliez 
үү р 
into а gi of considerable danger; when he 
W] 
got M 
dun of the latter that “ he expressed but опе regret, 
ndolle, Ecrits nam y RE he should have c come to die ‹ on thi is mole- visit Si 
ura. ы 
boast, and the 
scientific world.” 
n excursion into next undertaken, to 
r William Quan P D) оаа апа E James 
iila Smith, or rather the herbarium of. Linn in his 
Twenty years have dui since the aut tho d gd of 8 ; appointed professor at | possession. А dius sit to Cambridge aoned вй 
subject of this memoir died, and Wo салла that we монро а на Paris, а little disgusted at | after remaining two months in England, Candolle 
{ noi certain that the pu ublic r by this long | hay ving for the fourth time failed of being admitted | returned to Franc e then learnt tha desi 
| Itistrue that in its pu blication А. DeC ndolle has | as а member of the Institute. post at Geneva had been bestowed on hii, and 
. Mus to givi P hísfather'sautobiogr raphy tothe s 1813 appeared the first edition of his “ Théorie | accordingly only returned | to Montpellie té дана. a 
i pei еее i ivid" уа M лег | Elémentaire de la Botanique :” a work which 1 „апд to take leave с his ripas 
E avid interest witk which it | ] and at whi | and t nterin 
Т lore кеп те d while the name of the апћов |1 iat ди ch he ha di in fact been work- brot ther. professors before- entering о 
. pusyet fresh in the minds of his contemporaries. That | the flowing: ае which are very just, and well Tt was in 1816 that M. de Candolle returned to his 
. interest : е а Massen diminished; and worthy of being recorded : —“ Although I ha d be nativ city, Geneva, to take the p e 
although th andolle can never fail to tural His story ; a chair ^ had been 
1 arrest, the attontio m sr botanists, this is very different | number of new ideas which arose, the mome ог and which, with the mistake Sadly 
_ fmm that loving, living interest which reads co-ordinate and revise m. thoughts. "This | made in those dn involved "eotoring on Zoology as 
_ With eagerness the minutest incidents of friend's frequently the result of revision, and explains diei well as on а ny, only not including Mineralogy 
і ni and we cannot, therefore, but thi k that ateurs, who are never obliged n" arrange their ideas, because there was already a professor of эче t su an p 
$ volume than the ver bulky Svo we have|so eldom make discoveries, alth f | The zoological Кт botanical courses we o given 
Aw before us would have satisfied the curiosity | doing so." 
{ Put , Scientific men have not gener ally леї: andolle seems to have mixed freely in he Pro- for this the stipen her 
testa ыы: 5 being хао v add to this 
Ts of this volume es certainly 
To tho ов га Мат 
e in addition an 
es, which were 
tendance on w ich averaged 
very popular, and the 
è interesting. 
fe 
wn chara g 
im Arg althoug h difuse k 
түйү seen his танду wil 
Е is well wri ps up 
confesses uch a were а enr t to 
him. On - ky le, "De C. Cendolle'a life at Mont 
who attended the iuret courses. ‚Ву а calculation in 
seems to have been precisely Ag to his taste ; 
per 
D , 
d | Paris, Montpellier, and Genev va, dem 3000 lectures, to 
the Rectorship of the ену ity, ап 
was iret followed by the over sium Emperor | 
apoleon, and all the confusion there- 
Candolle im im 
gb The “ү iare — ^ Montpelier was » 
e sudden cessation oj | 
ly t 
p Рута в De Candolle, the I botanist of | к botanic garden to su about 6000 pupils; i of this enormous number, not 
zm fa that city түз Bs — and sufficient meg te — j - pi plans; 10 are known to t orld as botanists ! a significant 
bi of his , а large class of pupils with w was ex-|commentary on the em of teaching science b; 
he age et v a severe and tremely popular, and of many of who = Ley ecords the | lectures, and not by making the pupil examine Nature, 
a plete change. He w names, as having а afterwards done оой Service to|and w out his results for himself. It should be 
for the summer, and after the science; a proof that his method of instruction was | added, t De Candolle laboured under the disadvan- 
h pl under дед 0 of а | good. tage of having to lecture in the winter, when of eourse 
des w red college. In 1813, however, an element of discord arose in the | no living specimens of plants were d but he 
trem em “painstaking contest for and tł he naively 
| confesses— 
“I am convinced that an examination of specimens 
iai the lecture is rather a hindrance than an 
assistance. The students make — азы a pretezt 
ised bei 
Three ЕГ Aftermard he 
and to 
"ax pressing. them De Cand olle came femi. and 1 ту 
© 
d: 
E 
re complex in 
TY x 
| КЕЕ 
ou: 
and young men are always tempted R 
wn purse. 
XVIII. "dt made raa 
the specimens аге simply exhibited, they are scarcely 
of icd sindaco d follow his exam à "Hs 
seen; if they are passed round, they reach most of the 
Бы when the pr rofessor isi speaki ng o of something 
imself as wa by | political opi here brought p 
the diferent courses of nently hcm np en e opposed t d to t pa "Nevertheless, he was very сорани oi de es 
rwards commu g to| Bo spattist РО ru gis avi him self il f is lectures, especially when compare 
what he had thus acquired, During | his 2. ға е eii on the return | ће effect produced by his books; and he o concludes the 
maintance with ће | оғ oleo: aug * шм. At this time, the subject with the füllowing ez jt j 
visited Paris 
as 
| uncertain times. 
elt Bourbons р t to "power 
Napo 
| still tme осина was offered to him, and accepted, 
18 | а{бег some shrewd calculations for and agains 
advanta ngos to be шкы кош taking office in such 
as to be tli se en the 
all those who 
о 
had held 
Thi 
“ Courses of lectu ures are useful, as 
d on Studyin 
ui g 
[апа this, combined with other reason 
15 necessa 
myself a double 
myself to сда if I should 
medicine shoul uld I find no opening 
5 to deyi 
| pied 
l History 
took a disgu 
i y devoted hi: 
e „passing whole 
he soon 
st to the ps x 
Vigo mself MR x 
da 
в, det 
ally to quit Montpellier, бенде hé. pit- 
atur: 
make experiments, and to obs erve fo or 
obtain at Geneva the professorship of Natural History, 
E 
1 "rH pil ay WES 
which h «ты 
> this end were pending, he undertook а j ourney К 
ngland, early in the year 1816. Here-he was mos 
Meme бә received, and made the niens neé of ail 
the 2h enl, and many other f note. Sir 
34 
r persons o 
he takes ee this із why Wn den 
| with men P arie talent who have yet formed dis- 
tinguished pu 
De Candollé ined to an active and 
assisting 
com; 
1 Harras: Ж К, 
Vibo ELK 
rester 
ied; step Which but 
Жерд exertions, that he Apa 
Жый, ves intereourse was n 
e | rather an amusi: 
knew no French, and De Candolle could speak no 
N 
e comes Robert B; заа ат in eonnection | 
with сар ће шкын of х 3 De Candolle рор е out in 
we are consi 
valry an 
t, written, and spoken 
e highest "approbation ; I уе] 
mai en he Aa visited бе а; 
tend, Т I es Sir t ferea ter myself with having gained his | his е 
that it was possible to mak 
dship, I have at least placed ы in a position 
vi prm nearly resembling it. 
! 
| — 
energetic dis- 
į Raaka, order Eg method carried to a very high 
gree; and it ubt mainly owing to к 
b. was ена 
tions. 
movements of the 
missions, many iin ag in no 
y conn 
dm the first erectio 
тч m v Switzerland, i in rong ^is Bed 
It is — Пе here to enum 
on 
B 
Х o 
nd him regretting the 
failure failure of Mo the only wonder is that so many were 
