. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. March 14, 1895. THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 101 (fcilttoral, Ijtotiaa, &L DR. ADOLPHUS DE PL ANT A. It was only last week that a short account was given in " Reviews of Continental Bee- Journals" of some of the works of this eminent scientist, and now it is our painful duty to have to record his death, after a very short nines*. Dr. de Planta was born on May 13, 1820, at Tamins, in the Canton Orisons, Switzerland. was in 1793 that the King of the French, Louis Philippe, at that time the Due de Chartres, sought refuge here under
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. March 14, 1895. THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 101 (fcilttoral, Ijtotiaa, &L DR. ADOLPHUS DE PL ANT A. It was only last week that a short account was given in " Reviews of Continental Bee- Journals" of some of the works of this eminent scientist, and now it is our painful duty to have to record his death, after a very short nines*. Dr. de Planta was born on May 13, 1820, at Tamins, in the Canton Orisons, Switzerland. was in 1793 that the King of the French, Louis Philippe, at that time the Due de Chartres, sought refuge here under the name of Chabot, and for nine months acted as one of the masters, and memorials of his visit still exist. Young de Planta was educated in the college at Schnepferthal, and it was here that he acquired a taste for natural sciences. He then attended the classes at the Industrial School at Zurich, and upon deciding to devote himself specially to chemistry, he went to study in the Universities of Berlin, Heidel- berg, and Giessen. In 1845 he completed his. DR. ADOLniUS DE TLAXTA. His property and residence, the Chateau de Reichenau, is beautifully situated at an alti- tude of 2,021 ft., at the confluence of the Vorder-Ehein and the Hinter-Rhein. The river here is 140 ft. wide, and at this point first receives the general name of Rhine. The chateau was erected by the Bishops of Coire, and named by them after the Abbey of Reichenau on the Lake of Constance. The property was already in the possession of the de Planta family in 15G8, but was for a brief period occupied by others. At the end of the last century a philanthropist named Tschainer established a boys' school at Reichenau, and it studies, and after passing a brilliant examina- tion he obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Being fond of nature and study, he travelled through France to England, after which he visited Norway, Spain, Portugal, as well as Egypt and Palestine. For fifteen years Dr. de Planta worked assidu
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