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library, the other as laboratory. These rooms are simply 
furnished, but their contents show that their occupant denies 
himself nothing that can really aid his work; and their scru- 
pulous neatness and orderliness mark him as a careful and 
systematic man. Everything has its place and is to be found 
there when not in use. The library is very complete in mod- 
ern botanical literature, and the space required for the alpha- 
betical classification of the pamphlets, chiefly authors’ re- 
prints, is calculated to impress one with the volume of the 
literature of botany. Perhaps nothing serves to give a better 
idea of the rate at which this volume is increasing than a 
glance through the undistributed accumulation of two or three 
months on a shelf here. 
The principal windows of the professor’s residence and of 
the laboratories overlook the old palace garden, which has 
een the botanic garden since the foundation of the univer- 
sity in 1818. This is well laid out and well stocked. The 
out-of-door part has thus far received the chief attention of 
Prof. Strasburger, who is ex officio its director. This consists 
of an open level plot, laid out in beds for the systematic dis- 
Play of the vascular plants, and bordered at one end bya 
small pond which is formed by the widening of a part of the 
old palace moat and gives suitable ground for aquatics and 
‘wamp plants. On each side of the ‘“‘system” lie the two 
Parts of the arboretum, which contains many large and fine 
trees, including not a few American species. I noted large 
and flourishing specimens of Quercus rubra, Fuglans nigra, 
and Liriodendron tulipifera, among others; while the bloom- 
Ng of our red maple was almost the first tangible evidence 
that the dreary drizzle that passes for winter in the Rhine 
Valley was giving place to spring. The garden is rich in con- 
les, as the inspector, Herr Beissner, is a leading authority 
on this gr oup. One of the oldest and most striking of them 
'S a beautiful cedar of Lebanon, which is quite hardy 
jai There are also sections for officinal plants and ee? 
t Plants, and a biological section where one finds gro R * 
~Sether in one bed plants which have solved a given eg ats 
tionsh; blem in a similar way, without regard . gett ge 
feeaos os This section was laid out peste hk wee 
garden was one of the first of its kind in a aoe 
Me * Now give more or less attention to such a : fi 
nt, whose value is too evident to need emphasis. 
