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Vor, XIE. CRAWFORDSVILLE, Inp., JANUARY, 1888. No. 1. 
The Botanical Institute at Tubingen. 
DOUGLAS H. CAMPBELL. 
(WITH PORTRAIT.) 
Before describing the laboratory itself it will be well, per- 
e 
haps, to say a word or:two abou 
American village of a quarter its 
size. Quaint, high-gabled houses, 
sometimes seven or eight stofies high, 
the upper ones usually projecting 
somewhat beyond the Jower, an 
standing close together with no yards, 
give the place an air totally” different 
from’ anything to which American 
eyes are accustomed. On the out- 
skirts of the town, it is true, moré 
modern ideas prevail, and the places 
look more like those to which we are 
accustomed. 
Tiibingen lies in Wiirtemberg. 
about twenty miles south of Stuttgart. 
on the Neckar. The scenery in all 
directions is char ming, and makes it 
an uncommonly pleasant place for a 
summer’s stay 
The univ ersity is very old, but the 
old buildings are no longer used, be- 
ing superseded by handsome modern 
structures in the extreme northern 
part of the town. The botanical in- 
Plan of the Botanical Insiitute, 
Tiibingen. 
Stitute with the adjoining garden lies in the immediate vicin- 
ity. The institute itself 1 is an oblong, substantially built stone 
