I I 6 THE PLANT WORLD 



Professor Goebel's twenty-fifth Anniversary. On Satur- 

 day evening, March 7, was celebrated in Munich the twenty- 

 fifth anniversary of Professor K. Goebel's appointment as 

 professor, an occasion on which some fifty botanists were 

 presents at a banquet given him by his colleagues and 

 students. Among the well-known scientists present were : — 

 Wettstein, of Vienna; Lotsy, of Leiden; Giesenhagen, of 

 Munich; Glueck, of Heidelberg; Tubeuf, of Munich; Hild- 

 ner, of Munich; Raciborsky, of Lemberg; Karsten, of Bonn; 

 Loew, formerly of Tokio; Hertwig, of Munich; Doflein, of 

 Munich; Rothpletz, of Munich and Andrews of the Univers- 

 ity of Indiana. Prof. Goebel was first elected to a professor- 

 ship in Rostock, later occupied a professorship in Marburg, 

 and came to Munich in 1896. At the banquet, he was 

 presented with a Diploma of Honor by Prof. Wettstein, for 

 the Association Internationale des Botanistes. His former 

 students presented him with a memorial album, and announce- 

 ments were made of his election as honorary member of the 

 University atKiew and also of theNaturforscher-Gesellschaft 

 of St. Petersburg. Numerous telegrams of congratulation 

 by former students and colleagues coming from many botan- 

 ical centers in Europe and including one from Tokio were 

 received. iVfter the banquet those present attended a cele- 

 bration in Prof. Goebel's honor, given by the Akademischer 

 Pharmaceutenverein. 



