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the ‘ Archiv fiir Anatomie und Physiologie.’ It has certainly 
justified its foundation by its brilliant success. Besides his 
journal, the organization of the anatomical teaching at Bonn, 
and especially the building of a new Anatomical School, 
which is now one of the most splendid and complete in 
Europe, occupied the later years of his life. So engrossed 
was he in this task that he refused two brilliant offers of 
chairs at Strasburg, and at Leipzig. In 1872 the new build- 
ing was finished, and in 1874 the professor occupied the 
dwelling-house attached to it, but a few days only after 
taking up his residence there he died suddenly of a perforating 
ulcer of the duodenum in his forty-ninth year. The loss to 
science in his untimely death can hardly be estimated. 
Certainly Germany never produced a more accomplished 
histologist. The list of his published memoirs extends to 
eighty-two, produced between 1846 and 1872. The ‘ Archiv’ 
is to go on under the editorship of Professors V. la Valette 
St. George of Bonn, and Waldeyer of Strasburg. 
The late Professor von Mohl—Hugo von Mohl, born April 
8th, 1805, was the fourth of five brothers, all of whom were 
men of note, either for public services or intellectual ability. 
His father was some time Minister at Wurtemberg for Home 
Affairs and Worship, while his mother, a person of exceptional 
gifts, was the daughter of Autenrieth, Finance Minister in 
the same State. 
Von Mohl’searly education was obtained at the Gymnasium 
of his native town, Stuttgart. In his nineteenth year (1823) 
he entered the University of Tubingen, where (in 1828) he 
sraduated in medicine. In his inaugural dissertation (alluded 
to below) he clearly foreshadowed the course in science in 
which he was to pre-eminently excel. It was his father’s 
wish that he should devote himself to surgery. This, how- 
ever, was distasteful to him ; and the intercourse into which 
he was thrown during the next few years with Von Martius, 
Zuccarini, Steinheil, and other botanists, soon determined the 
direction of his pursuits. In 1831 he contributed to the great 
work of Martius on Palms a memoir on the structure of the 
stems of those plants. In this year he was nominated first 
* adjunct ” to the Botanic Garden of St. Petersburg, a post 
which, however, he did not accept, owing to his being ap- 
pointed Professor of Physiology at Bern, whither he went in 
1832. After the death of Schtbler he returned, in 1835, to 
Tiibingen as Professor of Botany in the University ; and here 
he remained, notwithstanding many brilliant proposals tempt- 
ing him elsewhere, till the time of his death. The interests 
of the University of Tubingen were matters about which he 
