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Original Articles. 
ALEXANDER BRAUN. 
[We are greatly indebted to Professor Robert Caspary, of Kénigs- 
berg, the son-in-law of the late Professor Braun, for the opportunity 
sent an extended memoir, full of interesting family and scientific in- 
formation relating to the deceased Berlin professor. Our space would 
not have permitted us to translate nearly the whole of this, and we have 
The obituary in full will be found in the numbers of the Aeron 
“Flora”? for October.—Ep. Journ. Bot. | 
RAUN was born on the 10th of May, 1805, in the old 
town of Tames _ His father was then in the postal service of 
burg 
Carlsruhe. He ~~ himself fond of science, and studied mineralogy, 
physics, and astronomy. His wife, the mother of A. Braun, was the 
daughter of a elergymen named Mayer; a gifted woman, and a friend 
ot year to the :, at Carlsru For the higher classes of 
institution, the teachor 0 of "Natu His was then Karl Christian 
Gmelin, known by his ‘‘ Flora Badensis” age cdo who was also 
Director of the Natural ory Collection, at Car! is teach- 
ing was in the dry Linnean manner, and not exciting, but at the same 
time he encouraged Braun’s thirst for ical | ee i lending 
him from his library such books as 
Dill 
and Sowerby’s ‘‘ English Botany,” and by other Sadly acts as mips! 
offered. So energetically did the boy apply himself to Botany that by 
his fourteenth year he had become well acquainted with Phanerogams, 
and with 
