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see in M. Cuvier’s account of the proceedings of the Institute of 
France for 1815, that M. Cassini is considered to have antici¬ 
pated me on this subject, and as he says in “ termes non equivo¬ 
ques.” What these terms are, appears by a letter I have received 
from M. Cassini himself, in which he states his claim to rest on 
the following passage: 
“Chaque fleur hermaphrodite ou male contient cinq etamines, 
correspondant aux cinq nervures de la Corolle et par consequent 
alternes avec ses lobes.” 
This passage occurs in a Memoir on the Stamina of Composite, 
which was read to the Institute of France in July 1813, and first 
appeared with the substance of that Memoir in the Journal de 
Pl^sique, said to be for April 1814; but the actual date of the 
publication of which I have reason to believe was somewhat 
later, and very nearly corresponding with that at which M. de 
Jussieu was in possession of a copy of my essay containing 
the observations already quoted. I conclude it is not supposed 
I could have been acquainted with the passage in the original 
memoir, unless the report usually made on memoirs read to 
the Institute should have been printed, and should have ac¬ 
tually noticed this passage, or the discovery it is now said to 
contain. 
But independently of the near equality of dates, I cannot con¬ 
sider my observations as either wholly or even in any considera¬ 
ble degree anticipated by the passage in question. My observa¬ 
tions notice not only the disposition of the five vessels in the tube 
of the corolla, but their ramification in the lacinke, by no means 
a necessary consequence of that disposition ; they notice also the 
existence, 
