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ship. Although he had nearly reached the age of 72, and felt the 

 ■I his years, yet he w.r a»iduoush attending to his 

 • - when he was si.ii i ;,■ disease 



of the chest, terminating fatally. Although learned in almost 

 every department of his science, his forte, like that of Agassiz, 

 was morphology, and his systematic work mainly among the 

 higher and some of the lower Cryptogamia. M'i,:<;!in, /.*»/..>-, 

 ('intra, etc. Although his communications to the scientific jour- 

 als began as early as the year 1822, when he was only 17 year- 

 Id, his first contribution to science of much extent, and of high 

 " " memoir on the arrangement of the 



ami permanent vali 

 scales of pine-cones,, etc., published in 1830. With this publi 

 tion began the present knowledge of phyllotaxis. It is v, 

 understood that the first steps were taken by his fellow-studc 

 Carl Schimper, and that the early investigations were pursued 

 common by the two. Bur d nothing, 



; and < ontemporaries ; hut 

 uicl became classical 

 ent of vegetable mor- 

 phology and development was'manifested in his next large paper, 

 viz: in his mem »ir ■. itith ! [Rejuvenescence in Nature. 

 in tl e life and development of plants. This was first pui 



Leipsic in 1851, and an Eng- 



n to Species, etc., 

 ; Berlin, an tion by a pupil 



of mine, was mainly reproduced in this journal (May and Sept., 

 1855). He reaches the conclusion— which would now be more 

 expressed— " that the individual appears in its full 

 import only in the higher steps of the series of created beings." 

 In his systematical w oi k, Braun was exceedingly laborious, ] r- 

 i. conscientious. When we add that 'Throughout the 

 ■ it -mould have her, the most productive years of his 

 life, he was overtasked with orricia! duties and, cares, we shall not 

 wonder that much which he hoped to accomplish is left undone. 

 His work upon J/,.-, ../,'•,/. /'//,// ,.•;,/. and A.„As may be essen- 

 tially complete. But his prolonged studies of Char a, which 

 began forty years ago, and the completion of which would have 

 crowned his career, have probably not been finished, or brought 

 into such form that the results may be fully secured. 



His influence as a teacher is said to have been great ; as an 

 investigator he stood in the first rank among the botanist- of oar 

 time ; as a man his simple, earnest, and transparently truthful 

 character won the admiration and love of all who knew him. 



