GuilHenrde Vriese Protrepticus ad commilitones, Athenaei Illustris Amstelodemensis alumnos, quo scholas botanicas, die Vante idus Octobres, MDCCCXLI, publice instauravit . Simon ScHWEUDEisrER, Professor of Botanyand Director of the Botanic Garden,1878. After a photograph by T. Bar-zuck, Berlin. i8 BOTANIC from others. The plants throve, and the fruit was abundant andfilled out, but when half ripe they began to dry up, and not one produced perfect seeds. His com-munication on this subject isdated December 28, 1691. Theimportance of his discovery wasnot recognized at the time, andhis c
GuilHenrde Vriese Protrepticus ad commilitones, Athenaei Illustris Amstelodemensis alumnos, quo scholas botanicas, die Vante idus Octobres, MDCCCXLI, publice instauravit . Simon ScHWEUDEisrER, Professor of Botanyand Director of the Botanic Garden,1878. After a photograph by T. Bar-zuck, Berlin. i8 BOTANIC from others. The plants throve, and the fruit was abundant andfilled out, but when half ripe they began to dry up, and not one produced perfect seeds. His com-munication on this subject isdated December 28, 1691. Theimportance of his discovery wasnot recognized at the time, andhis conclusions were accepted ina figurative sense only. Not untilthe end of the following centurywas his experimental evidenceused as a basis for further re-searches by Kolreuter. Linnseus,to whom great credit is given bymany writers for his share in thedevelopment of the theory of thesexuality of plants, ignored thefacts disclosed by Camerarius,and arrived at identical conclu-sions in a purely deductive man-ner, arguing from the necessitiesof the case. After the demise of Camera-rius he was succeeded by his sonAlexander. Later the lectures onthe subjects of botany and chem-istry were given by one prof a short interregnum the subject was once more in the handsof a master spirit in the person of Jose
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