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* Laws ot Xomenclat lire,' His book ' Tlie Marine Algie of Xew 

 England' (1881) gives desci-iptions of genera and species and 

 an ai-tiricial key to the genera. He compiled a 'Provisional Host 

 Index of United States Eungi' (188S-^>1), and along with Se_vuiour 

 edited the ' Bibliograpliical Index of North xlmerican Fungi' 

 (1905). He had al>o prepared and printed plates for a work on 

 rieshy fungi, which h:is been left uncompleted. 



Professor Farlow was intimately associated with ]>ritish workers, 

 find when the 'Annals of Botany' was founded he at once accepted 

 the post of American editor. He did miicli to maintain friendly 

 relations between the botanists of English-speaking countries. 

 Among the many honours awarded to him were the Foreign 

 Fellowship of the Linnean Society (ISUl!) and the Honorary 

 Degree of LL.H. of Glasgow University (1910). [A. L. Smith.] 



Ernst Heinrich Philipp August HAKCicEr, was born at Potsdam 

 in 1834. He came of a long line of legal families on both sides. 

 Before he was a year old, his father, a Government law oilicial, 

 was transferred to Merseburg, in Saxony, and there all his school- 

 days wei'e passed. Before they were over, however, his father 

 had retired from Government service and removed with his family 

 to Berlin. 



As a child he showed the love for nature and th*^ fondness for 

 drawing which were intensified as he grew older. Botany was his 

 tirst love, and ir is interesting to read that as a boy of eleven he 

 spent a whole day on the Siebengebirge, hunting for Erica cuierea. 

 At about this age he began to form an herbarium, and made a 

 fruitless effort to determine and distinguish the " good and bad 

 species " of willows and blackberries. In his school holidays he 

 met Sehleiden in Berlin, and was much attractetl to and influenced 

 by him. Schleiilen was Professor of Botany at Jena, and the 

 young Haeckel visited biin there, and made arrangements for a 

 course of botanical study. After his final school examinations 

 were passed he went to Jena, but his stay and botanical studies 

 were cut short, owing to a bad attack of rheumatism, the result of 

 searching i'or Scilla hifolia in the damp meadows of Saale on a 

 cold March dav. He had to go home to Berlin to be nursed, and 

 did not see Jena again for manv a long day. 



Haeckel worked at botany under Braun in Berlin, but his 

 fatlier could not look upon scientitic research as a calling, so to 

 please his father he went in 18r)2 to Wiirzburg as a medical 

 student. Plere he cam^ under the influence of KiiUiker, Virchow, 

 and Leydig, and here, too, he came in contact with Gegenbaur, 

 who had recently returned from Messina, where, along with 

 KoUiker, he had been working on Medusa). Gegenbaur's account 

 of the work done at Messina and the wonders of marine life so 

 enthralled the young and enthusiastic Haeckel that he resolved 

 to go there and do likewise on the first opportunity. In 1854 he 

 returned to Berlin, and for a year or more w^orked at zoology 

 under Johannes Miiller, who took him to Heligoland to study 



