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followed by his ' Astragalogia;' and in 1802 he began to furnish the 

 text to Redoute's magnificent work, * Les Liliacees, which he supplied 

 up to the 4th volume. In 1805 he was associated with Lamarck in the 

 third edition of that excellent naturalist's « Flore Fran9aise,' to which 

 he prefixed an introduction, entitled • Frincipes Elementaires de Bota- 

 nique,' and containing the outlines of a course of lectures which he had 

 delivered in the previous year at the College de France. A ' Synopsis 

 Plantarum in Flora Gallica descriptarum ' followed in 1806. He had 

 previously, in 1804, connected his medical and botanical studies in an 

 ' Essai sur les Proprietes Medicales des Plantes, comparees avec leur 

 classification naturelle,' of which a second edition appeared in 1816. 

 At an early period of his residence in Paris, D. iMeCandolie took an 

 active part in the formation, under the auspices of Baron Benjamin 

 Delessert, of the Societe Philanthropique for the supply of oeconomical 

 soups to the poor and other charitable purposes, of which he conti- 

 nued for several years to be the Secretary. The Society for the En- 

 couragement of National Industry, is also stated to have been formed 

 under his direction and management. 



" In 1806, he ceased to be permanently resident in Paris. He received 

 in that year a commission from the Imperial Government to collect in- 

 formation on the state of botany and agriculture throughout the empire, 

 and in pursuance of this commission he took for six successive years 

 annual journeys into the several departments, the results of which are 

 contained in his ' Rapports sur les Voyages Botaniques et Agronomi- 

 ques faits dans les Departmens de I'Empire Fran9ais,' which were 

 published in a collected form in 1813. 



" Soon after his appointment to this important task he quitted Paris 

 for Montpellier, where he became Professor of Botany in the Faculty 

 of Medicine in 1807, and a Chair of Botany having been established in 

 the Faculty of Science of that Academy in 1810, he attached himself 

 with renewed ardour to the promotion of his favourite pursuit. Under 

 his direction the Botanic Garden was greatly improved, and a Catalogue, 

 with descriptions of many new species, was published by him in 1813, 

 in which year his ' Theorie Elementaire de la Botanique' also made its 

 first appearance. Many valuable memoirs, scattered through various 

 publications, but chiefly taken from the * Annales du Museum d'His- 

 toire Naturelle,' were in this year collected into a volume. 



" After the second Restoration of the Bourbons, circumstances occur- 

 red which induced him to quit Montpellier and return to his native 

 city, now restored to independence. A Chair of Natural History was 



