Report of the Board of Regents Volume 22 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ...presently resuming Lis own: I could not resist the desire (he said) of speaking for a moment the language of M. Franklin. They met again at a public sitting of the Academy of Sciences; they here embraced amidst the acclamations of the spectators, who exclaimed that it was Solon embracing Sophocles." (Condorcet: Vie de Voltaire.) After duly considering their relative value, lie recognized the germination of tbe seed and the respective arrangement of the sexual orgaus as the two principal and most invariable; he adopted tbem, and made them tbe basis of the arrangement which he established at Trianon in 1759." Thus the solution of the problem I had proposed is seen to have little difficulty; for Laurent himself tells us, as well in these notes as in the preface to his Genera Plantarum, that it is to Bernard we owe the discovery of the principle of subordination of characters, "This inequality of characters had not escaped the excellent author of the Orders of Trianon, neither the subordinate part of the more variable, nor the importance of the more constant, nor the dignity of the embryo and the sexual organs, nor the affinity of the genera and orders which are associated with one another by these primary indications. The families which he has established are, in general, strictly natural, and conformable to these principles." At a still later period, be styles the Catalogue of Trianon, that mature result of the long meditations of Bernard, "the most solid monument of his renown." Nor does M. Adrien de Jussieu, though disposed by a natural bias to incline the balance rather to the side of his father than his uncle, bear a different testimony: "I have beneath my eyes the manuscript catalogues of Bernard: there are two of them;...