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his ecological contributions. It was he who organized and issued the 
Botanische Mittheilungen aus den Tropen, which have probably done 
‘more to give a correct picture of the ecology of the tropical vegetation 
ran all other works combined. Schimper himself contributed the 
: iost important papers to this series, among which may be mentioned : 
Die epiphytische Vegetation Amerikas, in which most of our knowledge 
ut epiphytes as they occur in tropical nature is to be found; Die 
chselbeziehungen zwischen Pflanzen und Ameisen im tropischen 
a: erika; Die indomalayische Strandflora. One of Schimper’s most 
nportant Papers was on transpiration; in this place he for the first 
ine clearly showed that plants of cold regions and plants of saline 
vitats are obliged to meet the same dangers as desert plants, viz., 
*ssive transpiration. | , 
The crowning work of this indefatigable botanist was his Pfanzen- 
_- lich was reviewed in this journals The review writ- 
that time was the result of a first impression. Now that 
Gail Seas has been made of this great work in the three years — 
ared, that favorable impression has been not only fully jus- ve 
opera It is clear that this work marked, as then pre- os 
¢ beginning of a new epoch, an epoch that is expressed in ae 
ve unseographie auf physiologischer Grundlage. Itis the 
aes basis that distinguishes the new ecology from that of 
and into this new field of endeavor Schimper led the way. 
“fed that those who are trying to follow out the tortuous 
have lost a leader of such ability and breadth.— H 
