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JUSSIEU, DE , the name of a See also:French See also:family which came into prominent See also:notice towards the See also:close of the 16th See also:century, and for a century and a See also:half was distinguished for the botanists it produced. The following are its more eminent members: I. See also:ANTOINE DE JUSSIEU (1686-1758), See also:born at See also:Lyons on the 6th of See also:July 1686, was the son of Christophe de Jussieu (or Dejussieu), an See also:apothecary of some repute, who published a Nouveau traite de la theriaque (1708). Antoine studied at the university of See also:Montpellier, and travelled with his See also:brother See also:Bernard through See also:Spain, See also:Portugal and See also:southern See also:France. He went to See also:Paris in 1708, J. P. de See also:Tournefort, whom he succeeded at the Jardin See also:des Plantes, dying in that See also:year. His own See also:original publications are not of marked importance, but he edited an edition of Tournefort's Institutiones rei herbariae (3 vols., 1719), and also a See also:posthumous See also:work of Jacques Barrelier, Plantae per Galliam, Hispaniam, et Italiam observatae, &c. (1714). He practised See also:medicine, chiefly devoting himself to the very poor. He died at Paris on the 22nd of See also:April 1758. 2. BERNARD DE JUSSIEU (1699-1777), a younger brother of the above, was born at Lyons on the 17th of See also:August 1699.

He took a medical degree at Montpellier and began practice in 1720, but finding the work uncongenial he gladly accepted his brother's invitation to Paris in 1722, when he succeeded Sebastien Valliant as sub-demonstrator of See also:

plants in the Jardin du Roi. In 1725 he brought out a new edition of Tournefort's Histoire des Mantes qui naissent aux environs de Paris, 2 vols., which was afterwards translated into See also:English by See also:John See also:Martyn, the original work being incomplete. In the same year he was admitted into the academie des sciences, and communicated several papers to that See also:body. See also:Long before See also:Abraham Trembley (1700-1784) published his Histoire des polypes d'eau See also:deuce, Jussieu maintained the See also:doctrine that these organisms were animals, and not the See also:flowers of marine plants, then the current notion; and to confirm his views he made three journeys to the See also:coast of See also:Normandy. Singularly modest all the See also:judges in the supreme See also:court of judicature—a See also:judge in the High Court of See also:Justice being styled Mr Justice, and in the court of See also:appeal See also:Lord Justice. The See also:president of the See also:king's See also:bench See also:division of the High Court is styled Lord See also:Chief Justice (q.v.). The word is also applied, and perhaps more usually, to certain subordinate magistrates who administer justice in See also:minor matters, and who are usually called justices of the See also:peace (q.v.).

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