NOTES OF TRAVEL. BERLIN. 



Since my previous visit to Berlin there has been quite a change in 

 the botanical surroundings. The collection is now installed in the 

 new botanical museum, which is the largest and finest in the world. 

 While I like the plan at Kew better, there is no denying the fact that 

 from an architectural point of view the Germans have a much better 

 and more expensive building. It is divided into a number of separate 

 rooms and each member of the force has his own private room in 

 which to work. I do not know how many rooms there are, but some 

 idea may be obtained from the fact that the room in which I worked 

 was Number 207. While the present working force at Berlin is 

 unquestionably the largest of any institution, they have evidently 

 provided for all possible future growth. 



From a mycological point of view the museum at Berlin is not as 

 important as others in Europe, for it is relatively a recent collection, 

 principally the work of the late Dr. Hennings. Of historical collections 

 they have the plants of Klotzsch and Winters 1 , and also many of Link's 

 specimens. Also I found there some of the collections of Beyrich 

 from Brazil on which Fries based a number of early species, and the 

 Brazilian phalloids of Alfred Moeller, in alcohol. 



At the present writing there has been no successor appointed to 

 the position held by Dr. Hennings, who died last October, nor do I 

 know where they will find in Germany a good man to take his place. 

 While the Germans have forged to the front in Phsenogamic botany, 

 and to-day lead the world in this department, systematic mycology in 

 Germany, as it is in the most of Europe, except France, is in a very 

 languishing condition. 



PAUL HENNINGS. 



The photograph that we present on our first page, of the late Dr. 

 Paul Hennings, was taken during the later years of his life and well 

 presents him as I knew him. 



He was born in 1841, and died October 14, 1908. It was only in 

 comparatively recent years that Dr. Hennings became prominent in 

 the mycological world, for he took up the subject late in life (when 

 he was forty-six years old) and published his introductory paper after 

 he was fifty years of age. Previously he had been interested in botany 

 in general, and museum work in particular, and was engaged in ar- 

 ranging the museum at Kiel when he made the acquaintance of Pro- 

 fessor Eichler, and this acquaintance led to his studies in mycology. 

 Shortly after Eichler came to Berlin (in 1878) as Director of the 

 Botanical Gardens and Museums, he appointed Dr. Hennings as as- 

 sistant in the gardens and museum. I judge that Dr. Hennings be- 

 came a mycologist through force of circumstances. At about that 

 time the Germans were beginning to take the lead in botanical mat- 



lln Winters' herbarium are lound many of Kalchbrenner's minings or i 

 namings, to be accurate;. 



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