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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 14 (search)
nsation for his services, and twenty-five years after spoke with enthusiasm of him as aussi admirable au physique qua au morale. He was introduced also by letter to Charles Martins, 1806-1889; succeeded in 1846 to the chair of botany in the faculty of Montpellier; author of various papers and works on botany, natural history, and meteorology. His family was of German origin. In 1859 M. Martins and his son-in-law, Gerdon, were in Switzerland with theodore Parker when he was the guest of Desor, arid both became admirers of Mr. Parker. a distinguished naturalist, then director of the Jardin des Plantes. There was then living at Montpellier Captain J. R. Gordon, He died in 1863, at the age of seventy-four. a retired English soldier who had served under Wellington, and who had become intimate with French officers-Valliant, Cavaignac, and Lamoriciere— who were from time to time in garrison at Montpellier. With these two families, connected by the marriage of Gordon's son Richard