Later Life
Augustin de Candolle was the first of four generations of botanists in the Candolle dynasty. His son, Alphonse de Candolle, whom he fathered with his wife, Mademoiselle Torras, eventually succeeded to his father's chair in botany and continued the Prodromus. Casimir Pyrame de Candolle, Augustin de Candolle's grandson, also contributed to the Prodromus through his detailed, extensive research and characterization of the Piperaceae family of plants. Augustin de Candolle's great-grandson, Richard Emile Augustin de Candolle, was also a botanist.
Augustin de Candolle died on 9 September 1841 in Geneva, after being sick for many years.
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