6 Memoirs of DeCandolle. 
euse que jai désiré rendre a tous: la force de ma mémoire, et surtout le 
ue j'ai eu trés-jeune de noter les faits et Jes idées nouvelles que 
Jentendais dans la conversation, m’ont mis & méme de pouvoir, bien des 
années aprés une conversation, citer exactement celui de qui j’avais Mer 
un fait ou une opionion quelconque. Cette habitude de justice m’a fait 
beaucoup d’amis, et j’ai eu souvent des remerciements de gens cités pat 
moi, qui eux-mémes avaient oublié ce qu’ils m’avaient dit.” (p. 91, 92.) 
To DeCandolle’s credit it must be said, not only that his career 
was remarkably free from controversies about priority and re- 
clamations, but that his example and precepts, his scrupulous 
care to render due credit to every contributor, his respect for un- 
ublished names communicated to his own or recorded in other 
erbaria, and the like, have been most influential in establishing 
both the law and the ethies which prevail in systematic botany 
(more fully, or from an earlier period than in the other depart- 
ments of natural history), and which have secured — CO 
Pte named one of the three candidates to fill the vacancy ee 
the Academy of Sciences left by the death of L’Heritier. A me 
compliment, for the contest, of course, was between Labiliardiore 
and Beauvois. In the canvass DeCandolle called upon Adanson, 
then very aged, and in his dotage more excentric than ever. 
f not chosen into the Institute, which indeed he could not 
pretend to expect, DeCandolle was in that year made a member 
of that active association,—la pépiniére de l’Academie des Sci- 
ences,—the Sociélé Philomathique, and was soon placed on the 
Peittce in charge of its Bulletin. This brought him into in- 
mate connection with such or ae die (Alex.), 
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