RECENT__pEATK3, 
Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyramus de Cftidolle, 
the eminent botanist, whose recent death in 
Genova, Switzerland, has been announced, was 
born In Paris in 1806, being of an old noble 
family of Provence and the son of Augustin de 
Candolle, a botanist as renowned as himself. 
The son was educated in Geneva, where the 
father was professor, and studied law. The 
law, however, was early abandoned for botany, 
and oil his father’s death, in 1841, Alphonse 
took his chair. He was a correspondent of the 
French Institute, was decorated with the Le- 
gion of Honor and was the successor of Profes- 
sor Agassiz as one of the eight foreign mem- 
bers of the Institute. Hi.s father willea to him 
his herbarium of more than 70,000 species of 
plants, on condition that he should keep it open 
to the public. He always did this and largely 
added to the collection. 
