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mainly, ? hough he pursued tho study of botany, lie beeame 

 Professor of botany at Rochefort, and his botanical works 

 include "Flore Rochefortine " (1836), and "Etude sur les 

 farines." He published a "Journal d'un voyage pittoresque 

 ... la Coquille." 



Co-operated actively with M. D'Urville in the botanical 

 work of these expeditions and is commemorated by the 

 following plants : — 



Paneetia Lessoni, Cass. = Podohpis Lessoni, Benth. ; Senecio 

 Lessoni, F.v.M.. = Erechtkites arguta, DC; Enchysia Lessoni, Presl. 

 = ?; StyUdium Le»*oni, DC = ?; Cy perus Lessoni anus, Kunth. = 

 C. trinervis, R, Br ; Adenocystis Lessoni, Hook., fil. et Harv. (fig. 

 in " Phycologia Australia "). 



Richard, Archille (1794-1852;. Born in Paris, 27th 

 April, 1794, and died 5th October, 1852. He was the son 



of a distinguished botanist, Louis Claud Marie Richard. 

 He was the author of a botanical text-book which passed 

 through many editions in France and was translated into 

 German, Duteh, Russian, and Fnglish (the last by William 

 Macgillivray, Edinburgh, 1831). He was the author of 

 other botanical books, and he probably was mainly respon- 

 sible for the botanical results of the "Astrolabe" expedition 

 already referred to. The following monographs are of 

 interest to Australians : — 



Monographie du genre Hydrocotyle (Ann. G>'n. Sc. Phys. iv), 

 Bruxelles, 1820, 8vo; Memoire sur la faraille des Rubiacees . . . 

 (Mem. Soe. Hist. Xai. Par., v) Paris, 1829, 4t«, 



He is commemorated by the following plants : — 



Greiria Richardiana, Hook. - G. latifolia, F.v.M.; Erechthites 

 Richardiana, DO. = E. hispidula, DC .; Senrcio Lliehardianu*, DC. 

 = & austral is, WilM. 



Achille completed the following work of his fatiier, which 

 does not, however, refer to the collections of any special 



