HISTORY OF THE SCIENCE. * 457 
Conrad Moench, Professor at Marburg, has fae 
voured us with many excellent botanical observa- 
tions *._ | 
Bulliard died in 1796 as demonstrator of botany 
at Paris; he wrote several treatises on the plants 
which grow wild in the neighbourhood of Paris 5 
and in his larger work described the rarest fungi f. 
Chevalier Lamark, once an officer in the army, 
afterwards member of the national institute at Paris, 
has shewn himself, by the publication of a great bota- 
nical work ft, a very expert botanist. 
Andreas Johann Retzius, still living, and Professor. 
of Botany at Lund in Sweden, was born October 
3,1742. Weare indebted to him for several new 
discovered plants by travellers, and for many impor- 
tant observations |]. 
Charles Peter Thunberg, knight of the order of 
Vasa, Professor at Upsal, is the son of a country 


* C. Moench Enumeratio Plantarum indigenarum Hessiae 
praesertim inferioris. Pars Prior. Casselis. 1777, 8vo. The 
second part has never been published. 
Ejusd. Verzeichniss auslaendischer Baume und Straeucher 
des Lustschlosses Weissenstein bey Cassel. (Catalogue of fo- 
reign trees and shrubs in the palace of Weissenstein near Cas- 
sel). Frankf. and Leipz. 1785. 8vo. with 8 uncoloured plates. 
Ejusd. Methodus Plantas horti Botanici et agri Marbur- 
gensis a staminum situ describendi. Marburgi. 1794. 8vo- 
+ Bullard, Herbier de la France, with many coloured plates. 
{ Chevalier de Lamark Encyclopedie methodique. Tom. I. 
II. III. Paris, 1783, 1784. gto. with numerous plates. 
| And. Joh. Retzii Observationes Botanicae. Fasc. I. VI. 
Lips. 1779.—1791, fol. with 19 plates. 
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