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 | | CANDOLLE, AUGUSTIN PYRAME DE (1778—1841), Swiss botanist, was born at Geneva on the 4th of February 1778. |
 | | The Principes elementaires de botanique, printed as the introduction to this work, contained the first exposition of his principle of classification according to the natural as opposed to. |
 | | His son, ALPHONSE LOUIS PIERRE PYRAME DE CANDOLLE, born at Paris on the 28th of October 18o6, at first devoted himself to the study of law, but gradually drifted to botany and finally succeeded to his father's chair. |
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