828 WILHELM FRIEDBICH BENEDICT HOFAIEISTER. 



Egypt, and Nubia, and brought back to his patrons of the Berlin 

 Academy a rich collection. He published from it " The Corals of the 

 Red Sea," a work which gave him a high reputation. In 1829, he went 

 with Humboldt to the Ural Mountains; and, in 1839, he received the 

 appointment of professor in the University of Berlin. 



Ehrenberg enjoyed the advantage that originality gives. He helped 

 build up zoology, and he created a special department in its study. 

 Thus it was easy for him to keep on the crest of the front wave. All 

 the labors of his followers only added to his power and elevation. 



WILHELM FEIEDRICH BENEDICT HOFMEISTER. 



"WiLHELM Friedrich BENEDICT HoFMEiSTER, the distinguished 

 vegetable anatomist, and the successor of von Mohl in the chair of 

 Botany at the University of Tubingen, died on the 12th of January last, 

 in the 53d year of his age. He was born at Leipzig, May 18, 1824, 

 where his father was a publisher ; and the son entered upon the same 

 profession, devoting, however, his leisure to microscopical research. 

 His first memoir, which established his reputation, viz., that on the 

 formation of the embryo in plants {Die Entstehung des Embryo der 

 Phanerogamen), was published at Leipzig in the year 1849. These 

 researches were confined to the monocotyledonous and proper dicoty- 

 ledonous plants. It was followed, in 1851, by his still more impor- 

 tant and elaborate researches upon the development and fructification 

 of the higher Cryptogaraia and the Coniferae ; and soon after ap- 

 peared another memoir upon the Vascular Cryptogamia {Beitrage ziir 

 Kentniss der Gefcisskryptogamen). In 1859 and 1861, he brought out 

 the results of his new investigations upon the formation of the embryo 

 in phanerogamous plants. His minor contributions to the journals of 

 the day are numerous, all relating to vegetable anatgmy and develop- 

 ment. Called now to the chair of Botany in the University of Heidel- 

 berg, he undertook the preparation of a text-book, viz., the Handbuch 

 der Physiologischen Botanik, in connection with DeBary, Jrmisch, 

 and Sachs ; each taking a particular department. Hofmeister pub- 

 lished the main anatomical part {Die Lehre von der PJianzenzelle) in 

 1867, and the morphological {Allgemeine Morphologie der Gewclchse) 

 in 1868. Since his translation to Tubingen, in the autumn of 1872, 

 only minor papers have appeared, to testify that his wonderful energy 

 was not exhausted. Hofmeister was a worthy successor of Mohl ; but 

 the contrast is striking. Mohl published far too little ; but all that he 

 wrote was clear and plain. Although the value of Hofmeister's work 



