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on Orobanohe, Malas: with his consent, W. D. F. Koch incorporated into 
Rohling’s ‘* Deu schland’s is 1833 (Bd. iv., 428). At this time 
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acquaintance . Professor Nees von Esenbeck. In 1831 he published 
in t , 195) his first work of any size. 
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collection of plants from Senegambia and the East ing st hear 
He soon obtained the title of ee and in 1837, on Gmelin’s 
death, became Director of the Natural Hist tory Museum, i in which he had 
been assistant for some time previously. He received a call to Zurich 
also about the same time, but it was declined, and to increase hi 
income "he became librarian in the Royal Library in 1838. In his 
habit of making frequent excursion 
In April 1835, he married Mathilde Zimmer, an intimate friend of 
his sister Emy w ho was engaged to Carl Schimper. Agassiz married 
another sister, Cecilia, in 1834. Braun’s wife died in 1843, leaving 
him with five young children; and, to add to his grief, he, about the 
same time, lost both parents. 
In the summer of 1844, Braun's children found a second mother 
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Characee, pene si Tsoetes, and Ophioglossee, by 
which his name br aergade well known. Thes' e were chiefly publis ed 
in the “Flora,” but some appeared in the * Linnea,” the ‘‘ Annales 
des Sciences Naturelles, " — ‘¢ Silliman’s Acasrican, Journal.”?* He 
also contributed to the ‘‘ Flora” notes 0 n Silene and other flowering 
plants, and an account, in 1841, of some of Schimper’s Abyssinian 
* In view of the list of A. Braun’s p emoirs given in the Royal 
Society’s ‘‘ Catalogue of caiestife Papers - (Gol, ry am 582-5,) it has not been 
repeat here special titl references. 
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