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can herbarium, which, about five years ago (after consulting the 
writer of this notice), he presented to the museum of the Jardin 
des Plantes at Paris, desirous, like a true son of France, to do 
something by which his favorite science might be advanced, and 
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was this, the work of a long life-time, safely deposited in its appro- 
priate final resting place, than Mr. Durand began to devote the 
remainder of his energies to the formation of a supplementary 
herbarium, which, when he could do no more, was lately sent on 
to Paris. 
Mr. Durand’s principal botanical writings are his Plante Her- 
manniane, and Plante Pratteniane, accounts of interesting Cali- 
in the Pacific Railroad Exploration Reports; also a sketch of the 
Botany of the Basin of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, and enumera- 
tion of the plants collected by Dr. E. K. Kane in his first a0 
second expeditions to the Polar regions, also contributed to the 
Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences 
Mr. Durand came to the United States in the year 1806, was 
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store, at the corner of Sixth and Chestnut streets, s000 re 
renowned, and its proprietor took rank at the head of his pro’é 
on. He pursued it as a learned profession, secured the unum! 
science. He has been an active correspon 
of all the principal botanists of the country, from Zaccheu 
and Nuttall down to those who have but lately entered eh his 
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botanical services and usefulness. All those who, like the | 
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