16 Memoirs of DeCandolle. 
of Brown is expressive of the great respect he entertained for 
him, and that of Salisbury and of Lambert is amusing. 
Settled now at Geneva, at the good working age of 38, the nar- 
rative of his steadily industrious and prosperous life, and of his 
happy surroundings, flows on for nearly 200 pages, down to the 
sad overthrow of his health by an overdose of iodine in 1836, 
his partial convalescence and resumption of botanical work in 
1837, and ends with the record of the death of his only brother, at 
the beginning of the year 1841, only eight months before bis own. 
These 25 years witnessed the publication of the two volumes 
of the Systema; the change of plan to a Species Plantarum in a 
restricted form, more nearly within the limits of a mortal’s life 
and powers; the — of the Organographie and of the 
Physvologie Végéta le, and,—not to mention a hundred other botan- 
ical and sundry so sae He writings, of greater or smaller 
extent,—of seven out of the present fifteen volumes of the Pro- 
dromus. Only one botanist of the present century,—and one 
happily who still survives,—has accomplished an equal amount 
of work, and good work, in systematic botany. 
Our account rites run on to such a length that we cannot touch 
upon DeCandolle’s social and domestic life—of which the me- 
moirs reveal pleasant glimpses, nor of his useful and honorable 
life as a Genevan and Swiss citizen. Nor can we now ventur 
to gather interesting anecdotes from his notices of friends, visit- 
ors, pupils,? and collaborators; nor notice his methods of work- 
ing, and his capital arrangements for securing and classifying 
details and economizing time. 
It is not for us to pronounce upon DeCandolle’s relative rank 
in the hierarchy of naturalists. He incidentally once speaks of 
Brown and himself as rivals for the botanical sceptre. It is nat- 
ural that they should be compared, or rather contrasted; for 
they were the compliments of each other in almost every respect 
The fusion of the two would have made a perfect botanist. But 
DeCandolle’s facility for ae gee zeal and paieney: were as 
character with those of Linnzeus, as delineated by Fabricius, — 
ds much resemblance. But his impress upon the science, 
ee broad and good, can hardly be compared with hae of 
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