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lars, is still unrivalled and is probably “that by which his name will be 
t known to posterity.” Physiologist, morphologist, and systematist, 
he displayed equal genius in all these departments of the science, but he 
Worked too rapidly to do himself full justice in any of them. “ His power 
of work was, indeed astonishing; whatever he undertook (and his under- 
m which he took charge of the whole colonial department, fatally injured 
his bodily and mental powers, and cut short his scientific career. He w 
declares that “he was hot in temper and impatient of opposition,” he no 
less sd adds that, “on the other hand, 
the most generous of dispositions.” He seemed as incapable of 
cherishing a resentment, as of repressing the expression of indignation 
for what he thought wrong; and if at times he made enemies, he was 
Most sure in time to convert his enemies into friends. ; eyes 
Dr. John Leonard Riddell, the only American botanist of this list, 
: civil service, After the capitulation at Alexandria he returned to Paris, — 
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