GuilHenrde Vriese Protrepticus ad commilitones, Athenaei Illustris Amstelodemensis alumnos, quo scholas botanicas, die Vante idus Octobres, MDCCCXLI, publice instauravit . by W. llor-nung, Tubingen. BOTANIC GARDENS. 19 losophy in 1805. At this time the garden was removed to its pres-ent location, on the banks of the Ammer, in the northwestern partof the city, and shortly cold and warm houses for plants and aresidence for the university gardener were erected. Kielmeyerwas succeeded by Schubler in 1817, and he in turn by Hugo vonMohl in 1835. It would be difficult to overestimate the value of th
GuilHenrde Vriese Protrepticus ad commilitones, Athenaei Illustris Amstelodemensis alumnos, quo scholas botanicas, die Vante idus Octobres, MDCCCXLI, publice instauravit . by W. llor-nung, Tubingen. BOTANIC GARDENS. 19 losophy in 1805. At this time the garden was removed to its pres-ent location, on the banks of the Ammer, in the northwestern partof the city, and shortly cold and warm houses for plants and aresidence for the university gardener were erected. Kielmeyerwas succeeded by Schubler in 1817, and he in turn by Hugo vonMohl in 1835. It would be difficult to overestimate the value of the workaccomplished by von Mohl during the thirty-seven years (1835 to1872) in which he was professor of botany at Tubingen. Thisperiod does not include the entire time of his activity in thisplace, however. In 1826 the faculty of medicine offered a prizefor an essay on the nature of tendrils and climbing plants, and athesis by von Mohl, who was then a student, won the prize. Thisacademic essay, written at the age of twenty-two, remained theclearest presentation of the subject until it was taken up by theelder Darwin in 1865. During the half century in which he was. Heemann Vochting (sitting, facing front) and Group of Workers in Botanic Instltute inSumtner of 1896; Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanic Garden since a photograph. a leading figure in the botanical world, he used a purely inductivemethod of research, and by a long series of many-times repeatedobservations established manifold phenomena and facts which hewelded into a coherent mass by a logic so relentless that he wasincapable of being led astray into fanciful theories and dazzlingspeculations. Such a method enabled him to take a prominentpart in the destruction of the chimerical teaching of the nature zo BOTANIC GARDENS. pliilosophy, especially in regard to the doctrine of the metamor-phosis of plants. Furthermore, he succeeded in establishing theprinciples of anatomy so clearly that a rationa
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