April 13. 1893. ] 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
297 
DEATH OF PROFESSOR DE CANDOLLE. 
We regret to have to announce the death of Professor De Candolle, 
which took place on Tuesday, the 4th inst., at Geneva. 
Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyramus De Candolle was the son of the 
celebrated botanist, Augustin Pyramus De Candolle, originally Professor 
of Botany at Montpelier and subsequently at Geneva. His son, the 
1866 he was President, and delivered an inaugural address, the subject 
of which he divided into—I. The Utility of Horticulture to Botany ; 
II. The Utility of Botany to Horticulture; and III. The Beneficial 
Effects of the Close Relations of Botany and Horticulture. He was a 
member of the Royal Society, also a member and gold medalistiof the 
1 Linnean Society of London, and a recipient of the honorary doctor’s 
j degree from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. 
FIG. 57.—ALPHONSE DE CANDOLLE, D.C.L., F.M.R.S. 
subject of the present sketch (fig. 67), and who succeeded him in the 
Botany Chair in the University of Geneva, was born at Paris, 
October 27th, 1806. After going through a course of study in science 
and literature he directed his attention to the law, of which faculty he 
was admitted a doctor in 1829. Eventually he devoted his attention 
exclusively to botany, and became assistant to his father and afterwards 
his successor. For eighteen years he was director of the Botanic 
Garden. He was elected a correspondent of the In.stitute of France in 
1851, and the following year was decorated wi'h the Legion of Honour. 
At the great Horticultural and Botanical Congress held in London in 
In June, 1874, De Candolle was elected a Foreign Member of the 
Institute, taking the place of Agassiz at his death. Besides completing 
the “ Prodromus,” which bis father left unfinished in 1841, he was the 
author of several separate works, of which the chief are “ Introduction 
k I’Etude de la Botanique,” in two vols. ; “ Gtiographie Botanique 
Raisonn^e,” two vols.; ‘ Lois de la Nomenclature Botanique “Origine 
des Plantes Cultivfies,” and “Constitution dans le R^gne Vdg^tale de 
Groupes Pbysiologique, Applicable a la Geographic Botanique Ancienne 
et Moderne.” He aLo edittd the Memoires of his father, and in the 
course of his industrious life published, in addition to the works already 
