124 The Microscope. 



in the Botanical Gazette for January, of the Botanical Institute at 

 Tubingen, where he is now working. 



Prof. L. von Cienkowski, the Kussian bacteriologist, died in 

 Germany last October. 



Prof. Anton De Bary, the botanist, whose work on the fungi 

 has made him eminent, died at Strassburg, Germany, in January,, 

 aged 57. 



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