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servatories containing a large and varied collection of tender 
mong these is a large palm-house containing some 
very fine examples, and a smaller circular building, in which 
beautiful specimens of the Victoria regia and other water- 
lilies were blooming when I first arrived. "These have all 
een removed, however, to make room for other plants. 
One of the smaller houses is devoted principally to or- 
chids; the contents of the others are of amore miscellaneous 
character. Thus it can be seen that there is abundant mate-_ 
rial for work. . 
The laboratory itself consists of a series of small rooms, 
two of which Professor Strasburger uses as his own labora- 
tory and study, and a large one which is occupied by the 
classes engaged in general work. This latter is at present 
closed, as the work of the more elementary classes is carried 
on for the most part during the summer semester. 
The laboratory appliances are for the most part of a very 
simple description, except in the matter of reagents. of — 
which there seems to be an endless variety ; but of. physio- 
logical apparatus there is very little—at least, visible. 
rofessor Strasburger is an extremely satisfactory teacher. 
There are so few of us in the laboratory at present that he 
has time to follow our work closely, and is always ready with 
helpful suggestions. : : 
ne has but to look at him to see that he is a man en- 
grossed heart and soul in his work. He is a man of about 
forty-three years of age, though looking somewhat older ; of 
medium height, very thin, and with peculiarly strongly 
marked aquiline features. His whole appearance is indica- 
tive of overwork. 
lecturer he is clear and concise, but the course of 
lectures that I have been hearing has been chiefly, so far, om 
a not very interesting subject to me—methods of bacteria 
culture—and so I can hardly claim to have heard him at his 
best. : 
_ His assistant, Dr. Johow, is a much younger man, and, to 
judge from what I saw of his work, an able one. He spent 
about a year in the West Indies with Schimper, who is prob- 
ably now on his way here from Brazil. I believe he is ex- 
pected here about the first of January, and will give some 
lectures this semester. : 
course, my principal object in coming here was to get 
hold of some of Strasburger’s methods, and as he is very 
obliging, and ready to give help, my hopes have been fully 
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