HISTORY OF THE SCIENCE. 451 
jarge work however is useless, on account of the 
very bad figures, and indeed of too enormous a 
price. Most of the drawings are not taken from na- 
ture but from descriptions. It is not therefore sur- 
prising that they often do not bear the slightest re- 
semblance to the natural flowers *. 
Charles Allione, Professor of Botany at Turin ; 
an old botanist, still alive, who paid great attention 
to the plants of his native country {. 
George Christian Oeder was called to Copen- 
hagen in 1752. where he became Professor of Bota- 
ny... In 1770 the institution to which he belonged as 
Professor became disanrulled. He became after- 
wards bailiff at Trondheim, and finally went as pro- 
- vinelal judge to Oldenburgh, where he remained till 
the end of his life, which happened January 28, 
1791. A few years before he was ennobled Besides 
many other botannical treatises. he has particular 
merit in publishing the Flora Danica, which the 
King of Denmark still patronizes {. 
* John Hill’s Vegetable System. Vol. 1.—X XVI. Lon- 
don, 1759---1775. fol. with 1521 plates, which represent 5624 
plants, but no trees, gramina, or cryptogamic plants. 
+ Caroli Allione Flora Pedemontana. Tom. I. II. III. 
August. Taurin. 1785 fol. with g2 plates. 
¢ Flora Danica, Hafn. fol. Oceder began this splendidly 
coloured work in 1766. He published three volumes before 
the year 1770. A volume consists of three numbers, each 
containing 60 plates. After his death it was continued by 
the famous zoologist Otto Frederic Mueller, who died in 1787. 
The continuation was afterwards intrusted to Professor Vahl, 
and at present 20 numbers are published; consequently 120@ 
Baars with the figures of Danish plants, 
Pa Nicolaus 
