OUR PHOTOGRAPHS 



The photograph on our first page is the familiar picture of Elias 

 Fries, taken on his eightieth birthday, the day he finished the Hyrae- 

 nomycetes Europaei. The second picture is a less familiar one, of 

 Elias Fries at the age of forty-six. It was recently published in Acta 

 Horti Bergiani, Bd. Ill, and is taken from an oil painting. 



Our photographs of Theodor M. Fries, Oscar Robert Fries, and 

 Robert E. Fries need no explanation. 



The photograph on page 417 is of particular interest to me, 

 as is everything in connection with the life of Elias Fries. The 

 Botanical Museum at Upsala is a large, rectangular building with an 

 inner court. During Fries' life the Director of the Museum lived in 

 the upper story of the building, and the photograph shows the door 

 of the inner court, giving access to his living rooms. Through this 

 door Fries passed daily during his residence there from 1851 to 1862. 



Elias Magnus Fries died on the eighth day of February, 1878. He 

 is buried in a cemetery adjoining the University of Upsala, and our 

 photograph is that of the slab of granite marking his final resting 

 place. 



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