De Candolle', Alphonse

LOUIS PIERRE PYRAME, a Swi botanist, born at Paris, Oct. 27, 1806; son of the celebrated botanist, August in Pyrame de C. He was educated at Geneva, and studied law, receiving the degree of doctor. Yet he chose for his lifework the science in which his father had become famous. In 1831, he was appointed profe or of botany in the Academy of Geneva, but afterward resigned. In 1834, he succeeded his father as Profe or of Natural History at Geneva. Much of his time was given to original research, and in 1835, he published his Géographie botanique raisonnée, a work of great value, which brought him a world-wide reputation. De C. was elected a member of scientific bodies both in America and Europe. He was chosen a foreign a ociate of the French Academy of Sciences, whose list of a ociates is limited to eight. He continued the publication of his father's celebrated work Prodromus system at is natural is regni vegetabilis, and wrote several other works on plant life.