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which appeared in the Works of the Botanical Institute of Wiirs- 
burg; and all the time he was successfully engaged in many 
fields of work, much devoted to the development of new methods 
and to the contrivance of apparatus, always adding new ‘‘ Bau- 
steine,”’ that here the edifice of botanical knowledge might be 
brought to a harmonious completion, and there new foundations 
might be laid for later superstructure. 
And yet, as though in early youth life’s bitterest portions 
had not already been his, he must even in his declining days 
keep up a hard and bitter struggle for existence. Body and 
soul, he was during the whole of his life ardently devoted to his 
work. From four or five o’clock in the morning until late into 
the night-he was at his researches. In his zealous devotion to 
his work and to his tamily he blinded himself to the fatal results 
of the use of the drug to which he had frequent recourse for 
stimulation. Yet, what Goethe said of his own life, Sachs could 
say of his, and in full truth, ‘It was the constant turning of a 
stone which ever presented itself anew. The annals of my life 
are ended when that is said. I have too much credit for my 
activity. It was correlated with my existence.” 
Sachs was not only a botanist, he was a philosopher in the 
best sense. His keen and just regard for his own science was 
lessened no whit by his relation to art and politics and history. 
The world had for him the same charms and beauties it had for 
Goethe. Let these words of Goethe be my final tribute to him 
who was my master and my friend, to whose fatherly regard the 
warmest feelings of my heart respond: 
If he was one who stood apart from the world, let it be called well, 
for the world can be served best by those who are not of tt. 
BONN, GERMANY. 
