1888. | BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 59 
the best situations for obtaining moisture. In all cases when 
_ the Peronosporee: flourished it was with succulent herbs, and 
even with these there was probably less growth of the para- 
site, and sometimes a greater manifestation of disease, due to 
lack of resisting power in the host; so that these instances 
are no exception to the rule that dry weather is not advan- 
tageous for the growth of the Peronosporee. 
Botanical Laboratory, Ames, Towa. 
BRIEFER ARTICLES. 
Heinrich Anton DeBary.— Heinrich Anton DeBary, professor of 
botany in the University of Strassburg, and editor of the “Botanische 
Zeitung,” died in Strassburg, after a long severe illness, on the 19th day 
of January. ‘ 
Professor DeBary was born in Frankfort-on-the-Main on the 26th of 
January, 1831. He completed the course of study at the Gymnasium of 
that city, subsequently studied medicine at the universities of Heidelberg: 
Marburg and Berlin, and in the year 1858 entered upon the practice of 
medicine in his native city. During his university studies his natural 
inclination led him to devote much attention to botany, and it was par- 
ticularly through the influence of the admirable and thorough instruc- 
tion of Alexander Braun, then professor of botany at the university of 
Berlin, that he became specially interested in the science, which he after- 
ward pursued with such eminent success. 
_ in the year 1854, or when but twenty-three years of age, be became. 
Instructor (Docent) in botany at the university of Tiibingen, and in the 
following year (1855) he was appointed professor of botany at the uni- 
versity of Freiburg in Baden, where he remained until 1867, when he 
*ecepted a similar position at the university at Halle, and in 187 2 he was 
called to the chair of botany in the then newly opened German university 
of Strassburg, which position he occupied at the time of his death. 
___ The first botanical researches of DeBary, which were published before 
®ntering upon his career as a teacher, were entitled “ Beitrag zur Kennt- 
niss der Achlya prolifera, Zygomyceten Familie der Pilze” (in 1852), and 
on Untersuchungen iiber die Brandpilze und die durch sie verursachten 
Krankheiten der Pflanzen” (in 1853). Among his larger and most 
“ 
be notice of DeBary’s death in the preceding number, taken from Pharm. Runds., 
rrec 
ted as above by the announcement in Botanische Zeitung for January 27.—Eps.] 
