 Within this time period (1899–1914), he was also an instructor at the "Institut agronomique" in Paris.In 1871 he became a member of the "Société philomathique de Paris", and in 1876 gained membership to the Académie des sciences.In 1874 he translated the third edition of Julius von Sachs' "Lehrbuch der Botanik" textbook (1873) from German into French as "Traité de botanique conforme à l'état présent de la science".