Eduard Strasburger. 
JAMES ELLIS HUMPHREY. 
WITH PORTRAIT—PLATE XXXI. 
No name has been more familiar to botanists during the 
past fifteen years and no work has attracted greater attention 
plete account of his life and work will be possible. But it 
seems legitimate to recognize the interest which naturally at- 
taches to the personality and surroundings of every leader of 
thought. The following pages are simply the record of the 
permanent impressions remaining to a student after several 
months of daily intercourse, begun with no knowledge of the 
man but such as may be gained from his published work. 
_ Eduard Strasburger is a native of Russian Poland, and has 
Just completed his fiftieth year. He is, therefore, in the prime 
of his powers. He was educated at Warsaw and in Germany, 
as called 
at the age of twenty-five to the university at Jena. There he 
as tempted him from this congenial post. Later he was 
given the title “‘Geheimer Regierungsrath,” the official dis- 
tinction which the Prussian government confers upon its citi- 
oats, familiar to botanists everywhere. te 
€ chronological list one is struck by the hompgeeer? “g 
tengPment of one research from a cgscoat pest 
Stic of the greatest investigators. Entering u ; 
whisk had shortly before been shown by the path-breaking 
‘ on of Hofmeister to be so full of interest an 
aeacance, the reproduction of the gym 
Urally led to the comparative study 0 
