nnn a I 
Fe a ye as 
. on The professor has a working room—that is, 
 Yoratory—on this floor. The laboratory rooms are & 
tee purpose and no other, and since @ 
“heir preparation, and since they were ma 
BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 415 
To start again : You enter the room, hang up your hat on 
one of the conveniently placed hooks, take a seat, arrange your 
Pandekten” if you take notes, and punctually at 9.15 door L 
opens and in comes Herr Prof. Dr. DeBary. He bows, “hems” 
and begins his lecture on Marsiliacee. The wall on each 
side of the blackboard is hung with excellent colored plates, 
which a normal eye can make use of across the great room ! 
On the table D are seen various glasses of water, pots of plants 
ete. The professor picks up a green mass and proceeds to 
divide it into small portions, speaking rapidly the while; each 
portion finds a separate plate as a resting place; this done, 
the lecturer opens one of the numer- 
ous drawers in O, and takes out lecture 
(herbarium) specimens, mounted on 
card and some protected behind a sheet __ 
of glass to which the card is pasted. 
An assistant hands plates and cards to 
the first and second row of students, 
and from here on the specimens serve a 
Significant purpose not hard to divine. 
Most of the students bring into class 
some text-book such as Sachs or Prantl, section of Seats: 8, §, 
read and consult figures as the professor i ee 
talks and sketches or explains his wall cards. Finishing Marsilia, 
Tsoétes is next taken up, and before the three-quarters 0 an hour 
isup he has begun on the Mosses. Asa rule the lecture is be- 
gun by a short (five minutes) recapitulation of the previous lec- 
ture, a most excellent practice for the student. The lecture over, 
another bow, and the professor disappears through door L. the 
students are out into the hall without loss of time, some gos to 
“ott lecture, othérs up to the general laboratory on the floor 
ove, 
ou find Dr. DeBary there, sur- 
giving directions for this an 
his private la- 
II well lighted, 
seats ; 
ently near a store-room, containing 
Me adben glassware, herbarium and hi 
eee ry Suppl t they are ide 
ory supplies. In short they Sighs wad 
eins of the present day of botanical science. 
xpense was no item 10 
de after the plans of 
