HUGO VON MOHL2 
Huco von Mont, the acknowledged chief of the vegetable 
anatomists of this generation, died on the first day of April 
last. He was born at Stuttgart, April 8, 1805, the youngest 
of four brothers who all became men of mark in political and 
scientific life; Julius the orientalist and Hugo the botanist 
being the most distinguished. The latter was educated at the 
Stuttgart Gymnasium and Tiibingen University, where he 
studied medicine as well as natural history and physics. His 
first publication, while a student, in the year 1827, was his 
“‘ Essay on the Structure and Coiling of Tendrils and Twi- 
ners,’ written in response to a prize-question offered by the 
Tiibingen Medical Faculty. In it he divined the real nature 
of the movements which coiling stems and tendrils execute, as 
has recently been clearly made out. In the following year 
appeared his inaugural dissertation on the “ Pores of the Cel- 
lular Tissue of Plants,” in which his later views and discoveries, 
respecting the structure, growth, and component parts of cells, 
as subsequently developed, are already foreshadowed. About 
this time his choice was made for a scientific rather than a 
medical career; and he went to Munich to prosecute more 
advantageously his favorite studies. Here the late Von Mar- 
tius and Zuccarni were his botanical masters, and Agassiz, 
Karl Schimper, Braun, and Engelmann his fellow-students. 
Here he made those researches upon the anatomy of Ferns, 
Cycads, and especially of Palms, — the latter a most important 
contribution to Martius’s great work upon Palms, the former 
also contributed to another work by Martius, — which first 
displayed his remarkable talents for histological investigation, 
to which his subsequent scientifie life was mainly devoted. 
His merits were promptly recognized by a call to the Imperial 
1 American Journal of Science and Arts, 3 ser., v. 393.  (1873.) 
