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Neustadt-Eberswakle Forest Academy, near Berlin, as lecturer on 

 Botany and Zoology, which was restricted in 1871 to Botany 

 alone. "Whilst here he gained celebrity by the publication of an 

 important work proving that the diseases of forest trees were 

 often due to parasitic fungi. At that time it was the generally 

 accepted theory among scientific foresters in Germany, that fungi 

 were rather the result of morbid conditions, than the primary 

 cause of disease in forest trees. The publication of Hartig's 

 ' Wichtige Krankheiten der Waldbaumen : Beitrage zur Mykologie 

 und Phytopathologie fiir Botaniker und Forstmanner,' Berlin, in 

 1874, was the cause of controversy, before the results of which 

 this book was the record, were accepted. 



When in 1878 the Faculty of Forestry in the University of 

 Munich was formed, E-obert Hartig was called to the Chair of 

 Botany, and remained there till his death. Since the date of this 

 appointment he has been a continuous and prolific author of 

 articles and pamphlets on forest botany, questions on the growth 

 of trees, the quality of timber produced under given conditions, 

 and on many other matters connected with the investigation of 

 the experimental stations at different centres of forest science 

 throughout Germany. During this period his two largest 

 publications were : his ' Lehrbuch der Baumkrankheiten,' Berlin, 

 1882, of which the third edition came out in 1900 as ' Lehrbuch 

 der Pflanzenkrankheiten,' and appeared in an English version 

 by Dr. W. W. Somerville, revised by Prof. H. Marshall Ward, in 

 1894 as the ' Text-book of the Diseases of Trees,' a standard 

 work; and his 'Die Anatomie und Physiologie der Pflanzen,' 1891, 

 with special reference to those facts of importance to the forester. 

 Notwithstanding Hai'tig's valuable contributions to the literature 

 of mycology, forest botany, and science applied to tree culture, 

 his greatest field has perhaps been in the lecture-room and his 

 well-equipped laboratory at Munich, because there one of the 

 main branches of his professorial work lay in connection with 

 vegetable physiology, which is, and must always be, the main 

 foundation underlying the arts of forestry and agriculture. 



His latest independent work, ' Holzuntersuchungen : Altes und 

 Neues,' came out in 1901, a year which found him in weakened 

 health; in the summer he regained a measure of his lost strength 

 by a sojourn in the neighbourhood of the Lake of Brienz, but 

 in the evening of October 9 a sudden stroke of apoplexy proved 

 fatal. He was buried on the 12th of the same month at the new 

 Schwabinger Friedhof at Munich, in the presence of a large 

 concourse of mourners. 



Kobert Hartig was elected Foreign Member, May 3, 1888. 



For the foregoing details the writer is indebted to Freiherr von 

 Tubeuf, son-iu-law of the deceased professor, who, in response to 

 a special appeal, was obliging enough to send two necrologies from 

 forestry publications (Eobert Hartig : Ein N achruf von Dr. E. 

 Cieslar ; separatabdr. aus dem Januarheft der ' Centralblatt f. d. 

 ges. Forstwesen,' 1902 ; and another, by Dr. C. P. Meinecke, aus 



