256 The Botanical Gazette. [June, 
atik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie” have regu- 
larly appeared under Engler’s editorship, and have already 
reached the imposing number of thirteen volumes. It pres- 
ently became impossible for any one to master the whole 
botanical literature, and so there was established in 1873 an 
organ for reviews, Just’s ‘‘Jahresbericht,” which appears 
yearly in two volumes and gives accurate abstracts of the con- 
tents of those botanical writings which have appeared in the 
course of a year. The ‘‘Botanisches Centralblatt,” edited by 
Uhlworm, began in 1880, and is now completing its fifty-sec- 
ond volume. Owing to the enormous amount of material for 
publication, it has just been decided to issue supplements to 
this. 
An important event in the life of botanical science in Ger- 
many was the founding, at Pringsheim’s suggestion, of Die 
deutsche botanische Gesellschaft, of which Pringsheim has 
since been the President. German botanists, almost without 
exception, have joined this society, and many notable foreign 
botanists also, in addition to those who have been selected by 
the society as honorary or corresponding members. The so- 
ciety holds its regular monthly meetings in Berlin, the chair- 
man of which is chosen yearly from among the Berlin botan- 
ists. A general meeting is also held each year, which until 
now has always been in conjunction with the Versammlung 
deutscher Naturforscher und Aerzte. The papers read of 
presented at the meetings are published in the ‘‘Berichte der 
deutschen botanischen Gesellschaft.” A special commission 
under the chairmanship of C. ASCHERSON (Berlin), well 
known for his knowledge of the German flora, makes its 
yearly report on this subject at the general meeting. Der 
botanische Verein fiir die Provinz Brandenburg, also main- 
tained in Berlin, especially cultivates the interests of syS- 
tematic botany and publishes its proceedings. 
The botanical laboratories, which soon became the centers 
of botanical work in the higher institutions of learning, at 
first somewhat overshadowed the botanic gardens in import- 
ance. Since then, however, most of the German botanic gardens 
have adapted themselves to the new problems of the science, 
and now actively supplement the physiological teaching by 
special displays of so-called biological groups of plants. The 
increasing interest in systematic botany has revived the in- 
terest in the plants themselves, and it is the botanic gardens 
