414 BOTANICAL GAZETTE, 
The Laboratory at Strassburg, 
[We are permitted to make the following extracts from a private letter of 
Dr. Howard Ayres, regarding DeBary’s laboratory. — Eps. ] 
** * Last July I was in Strassburg to hear DeBary and 
Oscar Schmidt. The former I heard in his “Allgemeine Botanik 
Montag bis Freitag, 9-10 v. M., Botanisches Institut.” * * * 
Perhaps a description of DeBary’s manner, methods of his labor- 
atory (so far as [ saw it) and other details connected with the 
teaching of botany in Strassburg, may not be uninteresting to 
you. the new Botanical Institute is a four-story white stone 
building, situated on the new grounds set apart for the university 
buil ing, botanical gardens, astronomical observatory, physi0- 
logical institute, etc., outside the older portion of the city, 
but within the new fortifications, which are immense earthen 
~~ embankments. ‘There is a 
oar Se ed basement for various uses, 
“|| a ground floor for various 
2S ae Sree ee others, among which you 
notice lecture rooms, a sec- 
0 ond story for general and 
L ] private laboratories, special 
N x| library, professors’ and as- 
sistants’ offices or rooms, a 
] you wish to call them. 
lt is 9 
morning, as I find myself 
L passing through the large 
| oe ney hall towards the double-door, 
=a ' (fe | above which is to be seen 4 
porcelain slab bearing the 1n- 
taf “aha eed “ Horsaal.” gas 
: : . tering there 1s a passag 
Ws double down Ba seats for So; NN, i eke aid left behind the last 
P, Frofesior's deck A, Gls & alten nent row of seats which are ar- 
ling. les fears entrance to Professor’s dwel- ranged in tiers. On the op- 
osite side of the room is the 
lecturer’s desk, tables, blackboards, calcium light apparatus, et¢., 
and, on each side of his desk, doors which lead into his private 
rooms—his dwelling—for the professor lives in his “ Institute, 
after the new mode. A diagram of the room may serve a pul” 
pose. The seats are plain, straight-backed pine benches, each 
extending entirely across the room. 
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