Uy 
HE'R 
pillar work, entitled « Les Loix EccleSaftiques de France, 
mifes dans leur Ordre Naturel.’’ He was author, likewife, of 
a ‘ Treatife on the Sale of Immoveables by decree,’ an 
« Abridgment of the Difcipline of the ‘Church, by P. Tho- 
maflin,’’ and other pieces, He died in 1753, leaving be- 
hind him ahigh character of the moft unblemifhed integrity. 
His pofthumous works were publifhed in four volumes, 4to, 
oreri, 
HERISSON, in Fortification, a beam armed with iron 
fpikes, the points whereof are turned outward, fupported 
in the middle by a flake, wherein is a pivot on which it turns ; 
it ferves as a barrier to block up a paffage. 
Heriflons are frequently placed before. gates, efpecially 
the pofterns of a town. or fortrefs, to fecure thofe p 
fages which muft of neceflity be frequently opened. and 
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-HERITAGE. Sce Innertrance. 
HERITIER, Cuartes Louris 1’, De Brurettrr, 
in Biography, an eminent French botanift, one of the moft 
diftinguithed ftudents and promoters of the Linnzan princi- 
pies and accuracy in his own country, was born, of an opulen 
mercantile family, at Paris in 1746. he was ap- 
pointed fuperintendant of the waters and foreits of the Gene- 
ralite of Paris; and his ative mind being turned to fulfil the 
duties of his office, he began to apply to botany, with a 
particular view to the knowledge of forelt-trees. He foon 
#xtended his enquiries; ftudied the works of Linneus; and 
of th 
toa 
could not adopt his prejudices, they were afhamed not to 
author had but for a few years paid any deep or confiderable 
attention to the feience, and, but for the above-mentioned 
caufes, might never have cultivated it at all. 
ae an ardent Linnean, was the 
intimate friend of I’ Heritier, and contributed in no {mall 
in hi The firft fruit of 
HER 
’ iid Ee iiedla a aap "i 
A paper war enfued, in which we cannot but think juitice 
was on his fide, though we are equally certain 1’ Heritiey 
never borrowed, nor cou 
but the purpofe feems imperfectly anfwered, thefe publica- 
tions not being dated at all. The fubjec&ts were Louichea, 
uchozia, Michauxia, Hymenopappus, and Virgilia. We have 
always underftood that twelve of each were printed. is 
biographer, the celebrated Cuvier, fays, there were, only 
five, and that, “ in order to give them the value of rarity,’* 
by which only fome colleétors judge of books, “ he diftri- 
buted the copies gratuitoufly to different people, fo that no 
individual might be poffeffed of the entire colle¢tion.” We 
re however indebted to his favour for the whole fet coniplete, 
library of fir Jofeph 
& 
» 
een in the rich 
Banks. 
lowed his friends, and all who had a tafte for the fame fludy, 
is collection without re 
to fhame the government of the d 
render venal all accefs to the public libraries and collections ; 
geniu eriti 
cles from botanizing in remote regions himfelf, he exprefled, 
the preface to bis Stirpes, a with t 
7 tirely fruitlefs. Dombey returned to Paris ix 
fire was not en orm a ers ons wl scg hm 
pnne the re- 
of ufe to the pub- 
“gree to urge him forward in his career. q var 
his labours ea a fplendid book, with finely engraved plates, lic. The minifter and “< government ” other t ives 16 
entitled Stirpes Nove, of which the firft fafciculus, contain- think of. The! : racsegg. a ota 
mg eleven plates with their defcriptions, Laoag 1784. rte of reformation ee at S eehca Ue wher 
copies were coloured for thofe who ehofe to have them, — a aes oe . ; 
butt the author himfelf had a prepoffeffion in favour of un- They allowed their amiable king to aa Ph By good 
<oloured botanical work inion ; by patronizing ure; and a medal was ftruck on his 
cows in the nei of Paris, 
tues. We have already related. (fee 
he  ritier obtained the herbarium 
zin 
Bee is blosd-facking hydra was draining the vitals of his 
under the matk of his authori vi 
MBEY ) how I'He- 
ind how his aim was d. Cuvier fays, he brought 
sak from England the manufcript of his Fen Flora 
com 
y » and ay ee s were finithed 7 
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