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Under his fostering care the collection at the Ecole des Mines in 

 Paris became the most important and best equipped in Europe, with the 

 possible exception of that presided over by Nathorst in Sweden, claiming 

 the interest of the scientific visitor to Paris rather than that at the 

 Museum in the Jardin des Plantes, which has fallen somewhat into 

 decay since the death of Renault. This care for details, accompanied 

 by the much rarer quality of the broad outlook, characterized Zeiller 

 as they do his nation. For a number of years he performed the laborious 

 task of summarizing the literature and results of paleobotany for the 

 Revue Generate de Botanique, and in the writer's opinion no better account 

 of the subject, for the times it covers, has ever been written. 



Zeiller was a delightful correspondent, and his discriminating 

 praise of work done was a strong incentive to a later and less inspired 

 generation to persevere in a science which only now is beginning to 

 claim its proper place. His Elements de Paleobotanique, although pro- 

 fessedly only a compendium of the subject, may without exaggeration 

 be characterized as the broadest and best work on the subject yet 

 written. We of the newer continent join with France in paying tribute 

 to one of her distinguished sons "dead on the field of honor."— E. C. 

 Jeffrey, Harvard University. 



