AMERICAN 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS. 
[SECOND SERIES.] 
Art. I.— Mémoires et Souvenirs de AUGUsTIN-PyRAMUs Dz Can- 
DOLLE, Ecrits par Lui-méme et Publieés par Son Fils, Geneva 
and Paris, 1862, pp. 599, 8vo. 
DECANDOLLE was born at Geneva on the fourth day of Feb- 
ruary, 1778; he commenced his distinguished career as a botanist 
in Paris in the later days of the French Republic; he continued 
it at Montpellier until 1816; when he returned to his native 
eneva; where he died in September, 1841,—on the fifth day 
of that month, according the opening paragraph of his son’s 
preface to this volume,—on the twenty-fifth according to the 
note by the same excellent authority at the close of the Memoir, 
489. We cannot account for the discrepancy; but the former 
is without doubt the true date. peer 
The twenty-one years which have elapsed since his death have 
thinned the ranks of those who knew DeCandolle, either person- 
ally or by correspondence. The Théorie Elémentaire, the Organo 
graphic, and the Physiologie Végétale have played their part, an 
have ong ago passed out of general use. Yet, thanks to their 
influence, but more especially to the Prodromus, the name of De- 
Candolle is still perhaps the most prominent one with the culti- 
vators of the science in general the world over,—is associated, 
not indeed with the profoundest depths, but with a larger amount 
of botany, than any other name except that of Linnzeus. These 
are the personal memoirs of an industrious, highly useful, pros- 
perous, and honored life. Begun at middle age, perhaps mainly 
for the writer’s own satisfaction, or that of his family, and con- 
Am. Jour. Sci.—Szconp Ssrizs, VoL. XXXV, No. 103.—JaN., 1863. 
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