Note 80 — Chapter III · Examination of the Matured Framework of Cell-membrane in Plants. 1800-1840.
Henry E. F. (Henry Edward Fowler) Garnsey translation
Franz Julius Ferdinand Meyen was born at Tilsit in 1804, and died as Professor in Berlin in 1840. He applied himself at first to pharmacy and afterwards to medicine, and having taken a degree in 1826 he practised for some years as a physician. In 1830 he set out on a voyage round the world under instructions from A. von Humboldt, and returned in 1832 with large collections. He was made Professor in Berlin in 1834. There is a notice of his life in ‘Flora’ of 1845, p. 618.