OBITUARY OF DR. FRANZ UNGER. 



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publications which now began to appear on these and other subjects ; 

 and we must refer our readers to the complete list of his writings 

 given at the end of this article. Enough it is to say that, after the death 

 of Eudlicher, Unger, who had previously refused the chair of botany 

 at Giessen, was appointed Professor of Physiology at the University 

 of Vienna, which post he occupied until he resigned it in 1866. In 

 that year he returned to Graz in order "to make room for younger 

 men." During this period, he made journeys to Scandinavia and to 

 the East, in which latter he was accompanied by the veteran explorer, 

 Theodore Kotschy. Though having given up his professorship, he 

 still continued to publish the results of his investigations, and as 

 late as the beginning of this year, he presented to the Vienna Aca- 

 demy two valuable papers. His popular lectures were models of what 

 such lectures should be. His " Sunken Islands of Atlantis " (Journ. 

 of Bot. 1865, p. 12), and " New Holland in Europe " (Journ. of Bot. 

 1865, p. 39) have been translated into almost every European lan- 

 guage ; and when the editor of this Journal asked permission to insert 

 them in these pages, Unger not only cheerfully granted it, but also 

 sent over to this country the woodcuts and electrotypes by which they 

 were to be illustrated. That the career of a man, still so vigorous in 

 body and intellect, should have been cut short in the mysterious way 

 it has been, is a matter of deep regret to all well-wishers of science, 

 and is peculiarly felt in an age like ours, when intellectual giants are 

 few and far between. 



The following is a list of his writings, which we have borrowed, 

 together with other facts, from Mr. H. Leitgeb's obituary of Unger ; 

 the abbreviations signifying, L. = Linnsea ; El. = Ratisbon ' Flora ;' 

 B. Z. — Botanische Zeitung ; N. A. = Nova Acta Nat. Cur. ; S. B. = 

 Sitzungsberichte of the Vienna Academy ; D. = Denkschriften (Trans- 

 actions) of the Vienna Academy : — 



1827. 

 Die Metamorphose dcr Ectosperma 



clavata. N. A. vol. xiii. p. 2. 



Beobachtung der Bildang, des Aus- 



tritts und der Keimung der 



Schwiirmsporc. 

 Anatoniiscli-phys. Untcvsuchung iiber 



die Teichmii.schel. Inaug.-Diss. 



Wien. 



1829. 



Beitrjige zur speciellen Patliologie 

 der Pdanzen. Fl. no. 19, 20. Re- 

 sultate sechsjiibriger Beobaclitun- 

 gen. 



1830. 



Ueber die Metamorphose von Ecto- 

 sperma clavata. Fl. no. 36. 



