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Lflanzen in 1870 with a monograph upon Synchytria. He now con- 
tributed also to the botanical section of the Schlesischen Geselischaft. 
Sir vaterlandische Cultur. 
When the Franco-German war broke out in 1870 he followed his 
regiment to the field, and was in a number of engagements, including 
the battle of Sedan. His services were recognized both by promotion 
and decoration. In 1874 he was again stationed at Breslau, and 
returned to his studies of the fungi with greater zest than ever. In 
the following year upon the occasion of the half century jubilee of 
Géppert’s doctorate, he undertook the elaboration of the fungi for 
the cryptogamic flora of Silesia, a work inaugurated by the Gesel/schaft 
already mentioned. 
This great work could not have been carried out by one better fitted 
for it, as he had himself first collected most of the species, and had 
first described many of them. Unfortunately it was not quite finished 
at his death. The first volume was published in 1889, and of the sec- 
ond and last volume three lieferungen still remained unpublished. 
The necessary manuscript was ready, however, with the exception of 
about one signature. The portion to be supplied embraced part of 
the fungi imperfecti, which must now be prepared by other hands. 
Through this work and a number of monographs of separate groups 
of fungi he has become known at home and abroad as one of the fore- 
most mycologists of the time. He had begun the elaboration of the 
fungi for the monumental work of Enzler and Prantl, Die natiirlichen 
Pflanzenfamilien, but had only prepared a few orders. Besides this 
he had recently begun to issue the Pilze Schlesiens in exsiccati, to serve 
as a basis to his cryptogamic flora of Silesia. Of this only 4oo num- 
bers in an edition of about twenty-five copies had been issued at time 
of his death. 
In 1886 Schroeter qualified as a member of the Breslau medical fac- 
ulty in the department of mycology and bacteriology, and in 1890 
became a professor, In 1892 he was entirely relieved from military 
Service. 
He was an exceedingly industrious collector, and in the last few 
y€ars, especially, extended his travels over a wide range of country, 
covering all of Europe from Italy to the North Cape. Last summer 
he undertook a scientific expedition to Asia Minor, stopping at Cyprus, 
and especially remaining in Cilicia and the Taurus mountains. In 
the unhealthy climate he contracted malaria, which developed into a 
fever upon his return home. During the autumn there was a recur- 
rence of the fever from time to time, and in one of these attacks, which 
kept him upon a sick bed for only a few hours, he expired. 
