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Nageli retired, the professorial chair at Munich was offered 

 him. It is much to be regretted that he did not accept one 

 of these invitations whilst his health was still good, especi- 

 ally as the climate of Wurzburg is hardly favourable to 

 nervous constitutions. It may perhaps have been the needs 

 of his family which pressed heavily upon him, or attach- 

 ment to all he had acquired at Wurzburg and dislike to the 

 loss of time and strength inseparable from each change of 

 place, that kept him there. The Government testified its 

 appreciation by investing him with titles and orders, as 

 early as the autumn of 1871 his colleagues chose him for 

 their rector, and he was repeatedly elected to the Senate. 



With the commencement of his professorial life at 

 Wurzburg, Sachs' " Wanderjahre " came to an end. They 

 had been, as the preceding facts show, beset with difficulties. 

 " I was thirty-six years old when, with a salary of about 

 2000 guldens I came to Wurzburg: and found a hole in 

 which to hide my head. During the three previous years in 

 which I had laid aside the Experimental Physiology and had 

 been writing the Text-book, I had had a severe struggle in 

 the strictest sense of the word to provide for the wants of 

 my family. I was thirty-seven years old when I succeeded 

 for the first time in investing 200 thalers in the public 

 funds, and had for twenty years daily worked from fourteen 

 to fifteen hours. As you see, my life has not been an easy 

 one, and yet I wish that things went as well with me now 

 as they did then, for what I have been through since is 

 truly more than a man can bear." 



The strong expression that he uses in speaking of the 

 laboratory at Wurzburg shows that there was much to be 

 desired both in it and in the o-ardens attached to it. The 

 laboratory which under his direction obtained a world-wide 

 reputation and attracted young botanists from all parts, was 

 housed, together with the clinical schools and the Institute 

 of Pharmacology, in a building that contrasts most modestly 

 with the handsome modern structures that have arisen in 

 many universities. And yet how much he accomplished in 

 it ! Little by little the whole of it came to be given up to 

 botanical purposes, Sachs being much too modest to insist 



