1883. | BOTANICAL GAZETTE, 309 
The Botanical Laboratory had six advanced and five be- 
ginning students, and I do not think the number was affected 
by de Bary’s illness. To instruct or counsel these were 
four instructors: The professor; the associate professor, 
Dr, Zacharias ; the privat-docent, Dr. Wortman ; and the as- 
sistant, Dr. Jost—all contributors, in a greater or less degree, 
to science, and of course well-trained men. At least three 
of the advanced students were working quite independently 
during de Bary’s illness, although it was the latter's custom 
to inquire nearly every day after the work of the advanced 
students, when he was in health, But the German govern- 
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BOTANICAL LABORATORY, FROM THE GARDEN. SouTH SIDE. 
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ment, which employs and pays th : ‘ ‘ats 
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with us.”’ Yet these men 
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