VOL. Xl1r. NO. 12.—-BOTANICAL GAZETTE.— DEC., 1888. 
Strassburg and its botanical laboratory. 
WILLIAM R. DUDLEY. 
The city of Strassburg contains two widely different quar- 
ters; first, the old city, full of narrow streets and quai 
houses, whose crown and glory is 
the great cathedral near its cen- 
ter; second, the new quarter, 
added to the city by the exten- 
sion of its walls after the German 
imperial palace and the great 
quadrangle of the new * Kaiser 
Wilhelm’? University. A con- 
op 
law, theology, etc. In the rear 
Main Entrance To Laporatory, ON the left side is the Chemical 
ppbybansena? Institute ; on the right the Physi- 
cal and Botanical Institutes, 
tory. Between the Botanical 
lies the Botanical Garden with its ¢ 
House and artificial pond. On a nelg 
other buildings for science are being erected ; in another 
part of the city are the numerous buildings of the Medical 
School, while the Library of ov 
greenhouses, Victoria 
making such an imposing display as do these fine examples 
on sie quail of ae «*German Renaissance style o 
