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dolle's Proclromus, and in 1866 brought out the Icones Euphor- 

 hiarum, of 120 folio plates from outline drawings by Heyland. 

 In 1861 he mode a trip to Norway with his associate, Reuter. 

 Not to mention other journeys, he was again in Spain and adja- 

 cent countries in 1877, and lastly, in 1881, his eighth visit, — then 

 in wretched health. Passing by scattered papers of his, we 

 come to his great work, the Flora Orientalis, in five octavo vol- 

 umes. It comprehends Greece and Turkey up to Dalmatia and 

 the Balkans; the Crimea; Egypt up to the first cataracts ; North- 

 ern Arabia down to the tropical line ; Asia Minor, Armenia, 

 Syria, and Mesopotamia ; Turkestan up to 45° of latitude ; 

 Persia, Afghanistan, and Beloochistan — that is, up to the bor- 

 ders of India. The first volume was published in 1867 ; the 

 fifth, in 1881, brings the work down to its conclusion with the 

 Pteridophytes ; and the manuscript for a supplementary vol- 

 ume, for recent discoveries and some re-elaboration, was about 

 half finished when he laid down his pen under an attack seem- 

 ingly no worse than the many he had recovered from, but 

 which now terminated his earthly life. 



It was a noble life, shadowed by an early bereavement, and 

 in later years worn by painful disease, — the manly life of one 

 who lived simply and wrought industriously where many oth- 

 ers with his independent fortune would have lived idly and 

 luxuriously; and he was no less a loyal and public-spirited citi- 

 zen. Upon an occasion when, long ago, we met him at Geneva, 

 he had no time for botanical parlance, for he was doing duty in 

 the ranks of the federal army. Later, at a time of commotion at 

 Geneva, he helped to quell a revolutionary riot, and received a 

 painful bayonet wound in the service. True to his ancestry, 

 he was a devoted Protestant Christian, a trusted member of the 

 synod of the Free Church in Canton Vaud, where he lived when 

 not in winter residence at Geneva, and where his assiduous 

 attentions to the poor and the sick will be remembered. He 

 was a man of fine presence, and till past middle life of much 

 bodily vigor. As a botanist he gave himself to systematic work 

 only, for which he had. a fine tact, and. like the school in which 

 he was bred, perhaps a faculty for excessive discrimination. 

 No man living knew the Europeo-Caucasian plants so well, or 

 could describe them better; and his herbarium must be, with 

 possibly one rival, the most extensive and valuable private col- 

 lection in Europe. He loved living flowers as well, and rejoiced, 

 in his choice conservatory collections at Rivage, on the shores 

 of the Leman, and in his well-stocked rock-works of alpine plants 

 which adorn his grounds at Yal eyres. 



A charming biographical notice by one who knew him well 

 through his whole life, M. de Candolle, is contained in the 

 Archives des Sciences of the Bibliotheque Universelle de 

 Geneve for October last. 



