326 ALEXANDER BRAUN. 
In his-youth Braun had listened to the lectures of Schelling, and 
from the clearness with which he treats philosophical questions it 
iagrams. : 
part. Walking at a rapid pace with his eyes always on the ground, 
and explained to the students. ~ In or er to collect Charas and 
other water plants, he would even strip himself and enter the 
water. ; 
There is left behind him a great mass of unpublished writings and 
rawings arranged in perfect order, and it is much to be regretted that 
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colleagues and students, by whom in his later years he was honoured. 
by several festivals in commemoration of birthdays and other 
saries 
and left side; and, though at first hope was entertained by his physi- 
cians, Braun felt that his end was near. He died early in the morning 
: 
in 
his widow, five daughters, and a son of eighteen. The eldest daughter, 
arie, is married to Prof. Caspary, of KGnigsberg* ; the second, Cecilia, 
to Prof. Mettenius (who died of the cholera in 1866 in Leipsic); the 
third daughter to Nicolaus Eichhorn, a technical chemist. His younger 
brother, Max Braun, is still alive. His two sons by his first marriage — 
and a daughter by his second died young. 7 
_ The genus of Mosses, Braunia, was so named by W. Ph. Schimper 
in honour of Braun.t Professor Schimper communicates the following 
notes upon it :— 
“I founded the genus Braunia on Schistidium nudum, Schleicher 
CONURAMEEeices.. * 
* Since the above was written, this lad has died on August 29th. 
_+ This must not be unded with the Menispermaceous genus B 
Willd. sp. iv., 797 (1805), named after a physician in Salzburg. 
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