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J. A. Schultes (1808-1826) Johan Peyritsch (1879-1889) 
Friese (1826-1847) Emil Heinricher (1889-1928) 
Fuchs (?-?) Adolf Sperlich (1928- ) 
Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1860-1878) 
ce 
Note: Between Friese and Kerner there were five “acting di- 
rectors” (Vertreter), fide I. Heinricher (Geschichte der Bot. 
Gard. der Univ. Innsbruck. Jena, 1934, p. 6). 
Serves as a public park, open free daily. Source of income: 
Bia aa from the State. Annual budget: 1. The employees 
of the Garden and Institute are State employees. Building im- 
provements and alterations are made by the University building 
administration. Since the economic crisis of 1931 governmental 
students. Library: There is no separate library apart from that 
of the Botanisches Institut, which is in charge of the Director of 
the Garden. Plantations: (A) Trees, shrubs and herbaceous 
plants are in systematic arrangement. In the Monocotyl section 
the arrangement is geographic and ecologic (plant societies). 
(B) Oecological and physiological groups Par to Hein- 
—Alps proper; other mountains. (£) Plants of the Caucasus. 
(Ff) Plants of Northeastern America. (G) Poisonous plants. 
(77) Scientific experimental garden (not on to the public). 
Publication: Samen Tauschkatalog. Museu part -of the 
Botanical Institute. Loan collections: Herbal arium is open to all 
scientific workers and loans to local schools such material as is 
available. Study material: A section of the Garden has been de- 
oted to genetical and physiological experiments. The entire 
plantation of the Garden is devoted primarily to the botanical 
instruction in the Universit 
Note: In 1798 Matheus Schipfer maintained a house and garden 
of 343 square fathoms (‘ Quadratklafter’’). This was the oldest 
“botanic garden” in Innsbruck. At the H6tting site Heinricher 
installed an ecological grouping, which was later imitated at 
Munich, Berlin, and elsewhere. There were 12 groups, as fol- 
lows: (1) Compass plants, and others whose leaves were alike on 
the upper and under sides; (2) “ Night-sleeping plants”; (3) 
Parasites; (4) Dissemination of fruits and seeds; (5) Insec- 
tivous plants; (6) Bog-plants; (7) Climbing plants; (8) Hy- 
brids; (9) Abnormalities (Teratology); (10) Cultivated varie- 
