310 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [ December, 
ally conduct,’ however, in certain very important matters. 
In the first place it provides a suitable corps of assistants, and 
makes it sure, therefore, that the professor has not too great 
a burden of teaching on his hands. It provides ample ap- 
propriations ; it appoints its professors for merit, and it sends 
up its students from the secondary schools with an excellent 
and uniform training. 
he advanced students were mostly engaged in bacterio- 
logical investigations, although one was working out certain_ 
biological questions of fern development. Professor Zacha~- 
rias was engaged in histological work, Dr. Wortman in phys- 
iology, and Dr. Jost completed a paper during the winter 
on the morphology of certain mistletoes. 
In the ‘‘Lehrsammlung” are numerous beautiful prepar- 
ations, some made by de Bary, and at once recognizable as 
the originals of well-known figures in his published works; 
and some by former pupils, some of whom are now famous 
m ese preparations are frequently used in illustrating 
the lectures, all of which were held late in the afternoon or 
in the evening. 
_ The herbarium collection is not relatively large, and is 
situated, it will be observed, rather remote from the other 
rooms. Had de Bary been a systematist, he would no doubt 
have placed his herbarium centrally. Instead, the large lab- 
oratories, the rooms which have seen so many distinguished 
Investigators, and witnessed so many scientific discoveries 
under the guidance of the great director, are the rooms 
around which the others are clustered. 
tory ; and in this, every Monday evening, meets the ‘‘Botani- 
abreast of advanced lines of work, they adjourn to a more 
next Morning are quite ready for use. 
he foreigner who has attended a German university 
