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century he quitted the sea, and continued to practise his profession in 

 London. For some years previous to his death he had retired to Not-- 

 ting Hill, where he passed the tranquil remainder of his lengthened 

 existence, eager to the last to obtain additions to his botanical collec- 

 tion, and enjoying the Society of his numerous friends with a kindness 

 of heart that never failed. 



" He died on the 15th of February in the present year, having nearly 

 reached the age of 88, and was buried beside his wife (who died five 

 years earlier, and by whom he had no children,) in the Cemetery at 

 Kensal Green. He left his herbarium^ consisting chiefly of Crypto- 

 gamous plants, Graminem and Cyperacece, arranged with characteristic 

 neatness on paper of an 8vo. size, to the Botanic Garden at Edinburgh, 

 where he had studied; and also gave by his will a bequest of £100 to 

 this Society, of which he became a Fellow on the 19th of January, 1790, 

 and to which he was always most warmly attached. 



Among our Foreign Members we have sustained, in common with 

 the whole world of science, a severe loss in the person of. 



" Augustin Pyramus DeCandolle, a botanist of such distinguished emi- 

 nence as to demand from us a more than ordinary tribute of respect. 

 Descended from a family which came originally from Marseilles, but 

 had for more than two centuries been settled at Geneva, and which to- 

 wards the close of the sixteenth century furnished one of that illustri- 

 ous band of classical printers who united in so high a degree the study 

 of letters with the art of transmitting them to posterity, he was born 

 in the latter city, of which his father had been Premier Syndic, on the 

 4th of February, 1778. His youthful inclinations were turned towards 

 literature rather than science ; but a residence in the country awaken- 

 ed in him a taste for botany, which his attendance on the lectures of 

 Professor Vaucher confirmed, and at the age of sixteen his path in life 

 was determined, and he devoted himself to the cultivation of botanical 

 science. 



" In 1795 he paid his first visit to Paris, where he attended the lectures 

 of Cuvier, Lamarck, Fourcroy, Vauquelin, and other distinguished 

 professors ; and when Geneva was a few years afterwards incorporated 

 with the French Republic he returned to the metropolis, where he 

 fixed his residence for several years, attending the medical classes and 

 pursuing his botanical studies at the same time under Jussieu and 

 Desfoutaines, with both of whom he formed a close and intimate friend- 

 ship. Soon after taking up his abode in Paris he commenced the pub- 

 lication of his * Plantarum Historia Succulentarum,' which was speedily 



