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Famintzin, and later Count Solms-Laubach. This laboratory 
was without separateendowment. Then, in the middle of the 
sixties, de Bary arranged a laboratory at Halle, roomy but as 
simple as possible in its arrangement, and quite unadorned. 
Finally, early in the eighties, he erected the laboratory at 
Strassburg, a handsome building, well adapted to advance 
scientific investigation, and expressing in its external appear- 
ance the great importance to which natural history had in the 
meantime attained. 
Early in the sixties the botanical laboratories at Breslau, 
Munich and Jena were also built, and soon not only the other 
universities, but also other institutions of learning, followed 
their example. These laboratories now possess not only their 
own departmental libraries and the best optical instruments, 
but also the physical apparatus which physiological researches 
demand, and most of them have in addition small special 
green-houses connected with the buildings. 
At most German universities® two main courses of botani- 
€t cetera, are considered. Once a week, the professor or as- 
*A paper on the teaching of botany at German universities, by the translator, 
may be found in the Educational Review, January, 1895. 
*°For the others fees are charged.—G. J. P. 
