1888. | BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 293 
store-rooms also on this floor. Last, but not least, is a small 
work-shop for the janitor, who is an excellent mechanic and 
makes nearly all the apparatus and models required in the 
institute. 
A noteworthy feature is the double water supply, two 
complete systems of pipes leading to all points of the build- 
ing, one for the city water, which contains so much lime that 
it + unfit for general laboratory use, and one for rain-water, 
ected from the roof and stored in a reservoir on the third 
oor. The systems are interchangeable, and both may be 
used for either rain or ‘* city ’’ water. 
The building is new, having been first occupied in 1879, 
atures of the best 
A full discription 
hes Centralblatt, 
and was intended to embody the best fe 
botanical laboratories known at the time. 
oe plan and erection is given in the Botanisc 
. (1881) pp. 318, 349, 388. 
In this, as in most of the German universities, the greater 
part of the botanical students are derived from the medical 
uring my acquaintance 
ber of advanced stu- 
. ‘oN Anatomie der Pflanzen, Fortpflanzungs un 
oe cheinungen, Ueber das Protoplasma, Ueber Gym- 
Pilon pen. und Archegoniaten, Paleophyt« 
des pepe en cherten, Grundzige 
gewa re der Thallophyten, ! 
© thir, ae Besides these, lectures wer 
botanic department on plant nutrition, growth, 
Te ical interest. Some of the lectures 
ae oe the latest work of the professor oP some 
d ject. Some were attended by fifty oF seventy-five stu- 
ents, others by four. 
Nn summer there are usually 
one or two excursions 
weekly 
hich often means a 
n . 
Peasant halts the party, and the young 
