GuilHenrde Vriese Protrepticus ad commilitones, Athenaei Illustris Amstelodemensis alumnos, quo scholas botanicas, die Vante idus Octobres, MDCCCXLI, publice instauravit . pparatus for use in the physiology of plants and animals isknown round the world. The library of the institute and that ofthe director contain a large number of works of the more promi-nent botanical authors, and a blank f orm properly filled will bringto his desk almost anything bearing upon his work from the 26 BOTANIC GARDENS. library of the university, containing two hundred thousand vol-umes, in an hour or two. Outside
GuilHenrde Vriese Protrepticus ad commilitones, Athenaei Illustris Amstelodemensis alumnos, quo scholas botanicas, die Vante idus Octobres, MDCCCXLI, publice instauravit . pparatus for use in the physiology of plants and animals isknown round the world. The library of the institute and that ofthe director contain a large number of works of the more promi-nent botanical authors, and a blank f orm properly filled will bringto his desk almost anything bearing upon his work from the 26 BOTANIC GARDENS. library of the university, containing two hundred thousand vol-umes, in an hour or two. Outside the laboratories lies a gardenstocked with an inimense variety of well-grown plants represent-ing great diversities of form and habitat, and presenting suitablematerial for the solution of a number of the more important openquestions in the subject. Stretching away on every hand is therich fiora of the limestone hills, crested by coniferous subalpine vegetation of the Swabian Alps may also bereached by an excursion of a few kilometres. The forests, lying within half an hours walk of the garden,embrace examples of the royal, communal, and private systems. Group of Microscopes from the von Mohl Collection. The upright wooden stand onthe right was used by Gaertner. The modern form on thc lett belonged to remaining stands were designed or used by von Molil. After a photograph. of management, and afford splendid opportunities for study indendrology. The most valuable part of the workers experience, with suchample facilities at hand, however, is that which comes from theadvice, encouragement, and suggestions of the director. Con-stantly engaged in the most laborious research for more than aquarter of a century, he has a vivid and sympathetic appreciationof the difficulties which beset the investigator, and his keen in-sight into the physiology of plant life leads him quickly to thesolution of the problem in hand. His time and patience areunstintingly given
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