Charles Gaudichaud-Beaipre, a French botanist, born in Angouleme, Sept. 4, 1780, died in Paris, Jan. 26, 1854. In 1817 he accompanied, in the capacity of pharmaceutic botanist, the scientific expedition of Freycinet. His vessel, the Uranie, was wrecked upon the Falkland islands in the spring of 1820, and of the 4,175 botanical specimens which he had collected upward of 2,500 were lost. After his return to France he prepared the botanical history of the voyage. In 1830-33 he took part in the expedition which explored the coast of South America in the Herminie, and subsequently circumnavigated the globe again in the Bonite. He was a member of the institute and connected with the museum of natural history, where he passed the remainder of his life, devoted to the classification of his specimens and the preparation and publication of his notes; and he carried on an acrimonious controversy with Mirbel on the subject of the process of vegetable growth. Among his numerous publications were: Voyage de la Bonite (botanique) (4 vols. 8vo); Recherclies generates sur Vorga-nographie, la physiologic et l organogenie des vegetaux (4to, 1841); Recherches generales sur la physiologie et l'organogenie des regetaux (4to, 1842-,7); and Memoires et notices diverses sur l anatomie et la physiologie des vegetaux (2 vols. 8vo, 1851).