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unflagging industry, his capacity for sustained labor, his ere 
es eye, 
intimate social relations; and when he had ascertained that a 
Place would be provided for him, he exchanged the compara- 
tively ample Sosl wtsliats of the chair at Montpellier, for the very 
— le salary of one at Geneva, encum with the duty of 
uring upon zoology as well as botany. ; 
Pending the hana he made a visit to England, in 1816, of 
which a detailed account is given, with reminiscences 0 the bot- 
ists and others whose personal acquaintance he then made. We 
Tegret that we have no room left for further extracts: his account 
Geoffroy in anat- 
» who founded his morphology of the flower eo the idea . symmetry, and 
homology of the floral organs with leaves, and who cout 
writings of his townsman, Bonnet, enough of phyllotaxy ~— 
Seems never to have thought of connecting the one with the other, nor to have 
asked himself why a flower is symmetrical. 
