﻿JULIUS 
  SACHS 
  

  

  Julius 
  Sachs, 
  a 
  noted 
  German 
  botanist 
  (b. 
  Breslau, 
  1832; 
  d. 
  Wtirzburg, 
  1897), 
  was 
  

   a 
  most 
  careful 
  observer 
  of 
  the 
  ways 
  in 
  which 
  plants 
  live 
  and 
  work. 
  He 
  had 
  a 
  re- 
  

   markably 
  clear 
  and 
  forceful 
  style 
  of 
  writing 
  and 
  an 
  unusual 
  ability 
  in 
  making 
  

   illustrations. 
  As 
  investigator, 
  writer, 
  and 
  teacher 
  he 
  organized 
  the 
  somewhat 
  

   disconnected 
  discoveries 
  of 
  others 
  and, 
  adding 
  his 
  own 
  discoveries, 
  established 
  

   the 
  science 
  of 
  plant 
  physiology. 
  His 
  textbooks 
  were 
  unsurpassed 
  in 
  influence 
  and 
  

   gave 
  to 
  many 
  students 
  their 
  first 
  general 
  view 
  of 
  botany. 
  He 
  published 
  many 
  

   important 
  contributions 
  to 
  our 
  knowledge 
  of 
  germination, 
  the 
  work 
  of 
  chlorophyll, 
  

   and 
  other 
  processes 
  of 
  food-Hl^king 
  aud 
  food 
  transportation 
  

  

  