Excerpt from The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Vol. 12: Including Zoology, Botany, and Geology
Augustin Pyramus DeCandolle, Professor of Botany at Geneva, died on the 9th of September 1841. DeCandolle exerted such an extensive and powerful influence upon the progress of botany, that he is identified with the history of the science in the present century.
The man who impressed the seal of his genius on the natural history, and especially on the botany of the last century, Linn?us, died at Upsal on the 10th of January 1778. On the 4th of February of that same year, twenty-five days after the departure of Linn?us, and on the same day upon which the death of Conrad Celtis occurred, Aug. Pyramus DeCandolle saw the light of day at Geneva. Thus did the spirit of the times, which guides the wisdom of man, transfer the role of the systematical classifier of plants from Sweden to the verdant shores of the Leman, and place it in the cradle of him, upon whose urn we now suspend the flower-garland of grateful reverence.
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