. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . easure trip,in which he was accompanied by his that were made to him were invain; having survived two sojourns in Africaunder less favourable conditions, he had reasonsto think he could resist the fatal climate. It viscous bread, and his discovery of the means ofpreventing the appearance of that diseased con-dition, and to his studies on the variability of fungiand microbes. Allusion may also here be madeto his researches on the conditions governing thedispersion of Misleto, and
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . easure trip,in which he was accompanied by his that were made to him were invain; having survived two sojourns in Africaunder less favourable conditions, he had reasonsto think he could resist the fatal climate. It viscous bread, and his discovery of the means ofpreventing the appearance of that diseased con-dition, and to his studies on the variability of fungiand microbes. Allusion may also here be madeto his researches on the conditions governing thedispersion of Misleto, and to his recent memoir, incollaboration with M. Emile Marchal, on theproblem of the formation of albumenoid matterin plants. Two facts of great scientific import-ance have been established by Laurent. Experi-ments carried on together with the Frenchchemist, Th. Schloesing Fils, and which willremain models of precision, have afforded deci-sive proof that certain plants have the facultyof assimilating, of fixing as it is said, the gaseousnitrogen of the atmosphere. The importance of THE LATE M. LAURENT. was not, however, without apprehension that hisfriends bade him farewell at Antwerp, but theyreceived with much pleasure the news of hisprogress. In his letters he spoke of the finecondition of the plantations which he had in-augurated in 1895-6. At last, when they knewthat he was returning to Europe, they thoughthim safe, and were preparing to receive him inAntwerp in a few days, when the telegram an-nouncing his death spread consternation amongthem. The scientific reputation of Laurent was wellestablished beyond the Belgian frontiers. Hewas elected last year a Correspondent of theInstitute of France, and the King named himChevalier of the Order of Leopold. We cannothere enumerate all his scientific publications,marked at once, as Professor Errera has stated,by their originality and critical acumen. But Imay allude to his bacteriological experiments on this matter may
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