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of Director of the Eoyal University Herbarium, with an increase 

 of salary which was very acceptable. 



The death of Ernst Meyer occurred at Konigsberg in 1858, 

 and Caspary v.as nominated to the vacancy, with the supervision 

 of the botanic garden, which he took up in January 1859. Thus 

 provided for, in the following June he married Marie Emilia 

 Dorothea Braun, on the same day as her sister was married to 

 Prof Mettenius. 



The phytology of the neighbourhood of Konigsberg was very 

 imperfectly known when Caspary settled down to his duties, but, 

 gathering to his aid some kindred spirits, he founded the Prussian 

 Botanical Club, of which he became the president in 1862 until 

 his death. In 1877 he had the grief of losing his wife, who left 

 him with three children, henceforth his pride and solace. 



1868 witnessed his last long journey, which was to Sweden, on 

 his favourite quest of Nymphaeaceae. It lasted eight weeks :fi*om 

 Stockholm he w^ent to Pitea and Lulefi as far as Quickjock, then 

 back by Haparanda and Tornea. In 1875 he went to Leyden to 

 take part in its tercentenary festival, and also once to Berlin, to 

 his father-in-law's twenty-fifth anniversary of his appointment. 



Strong and vigorous to the last, both in mind and body, the 

 veteran of seventy showed no signs of failing health, when an 

 unfortunate fall down stairs over an unseen step in a friend's 

 house at Ulowo, near Vandsberg in West Prussia, resulted in 

 fracture of the skull, and, after lying unconscious for some hours, 

 he died there 18th September 1887. 



Caspary was best known as the chief authority on Nymphsea- 

 ceae ; but his numerous memoirs on these plants were regarded 

 by him only as materials for a great work which Avas not com- 

 plete at the time of his decease. Aquatic plants had a great 

 fascination for him, as many of his best known papers testify. 

 Fossil plants and Cryjitogams were also studied with avidity, a 

 large amount of material remaining unpublished, and too fragmen- 

 tary for posthumous issue. A full list of his writings may be seen 

 in the 28th volume of the Konigsberg Schriften der phys.-okon. 

 Ges. pp. 127-134. He was elected a Foreign Member of this 

 Society on May 7th, 1885. 



Heinrich Anton De Baky, whose memory will long be cherished 

 by a large circle of scientific friends, was born at Frankfort 26th 

 January, 1831, studied medicine at Heidelberg, Marburg, and 

 Berlin, and settled at Frankfort in 1853. 



His career as a botanic teacher began in 1851; as Privatdocent 

 at Tubingen, whence he was called in 1855 to Freiburg-im- 

 Breisgau, in which place he became Professor in 1857 till 

 1867, in which year he succeeded Schlechtendal at Halle. When 

 the new University at Strassburg was constituted, De Bary was 

 inducted as Eector, and at a later date he was enabled to build a 

 new Botanic Institute. From that time until his too early death 



