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cites “Pluk. Tab. 33 fig. 6,” but forgets to withdraw this citation from his 
synonymy under A. rubra.—A. S. Htrcucock, U.S. Department of A gricul- 
lure, 
CARL SCHUMANN 
A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH ' (WITH PORTRAIT). 
Kart Moritz SCHUMANN was born June 17, 1851, in Gorlitz (Silesia). 
After attending the Real-Gymnasium of his native town until 1869, he 
studied at the universities of Berlin, Munich, and Breslau, devoting him- 
self at first to chemistry, later principally to botany and related sciences. 
The doctor’s degree was conferred 
upon him by the University of 
Breslau, July 19, 1873, the title of 
his dissertation being Dicken- 
wachsthum und Cambium. 
A year previously he had ac- 
cepted a position as assistant to 
Professor Dr. GOEPPERT, the famous 
authority on fossil plants, which he 
held until the spring of 1876. In 
November 1875 he passed with honor 
the Prussian state examination, and 
shortly afterwards took up the pro- 
fession of teaching. For eight years, 
beginning with 1876, he taught in 
the Real-Gymnasium “Zum heiligen 3 
Geist” in Breslau. A work entitled Kritische Untersuchung iiber die 
Zimmilinder, which he wrote during this time, showed as much histori- 
cal and geographical as scientific knowledge. On account of this book he 
Was called in the summer of 1884 to Berlin, where he was appointed 
Curator of the Berlin Botanical Museum recently established by A. W. 
EICHLER. In June 1892 he was appointed professor, and in the spring of 
1893 he obtained the right to deliver academic lectures on botany in the 
University of Berlin. On March 22, 1904, death closed his full and 
fertile life. 
The contributions by which ScHuMANN advanced scientific botany 
are extraordinarily numerous, and as the work of a single man most aston- 
iaidae’ Ave may divide them into purely systematic, phytogeographic, 
morphological, biological, pharmaceutical, didactical, biographical, and 
the work of reviewing. 
" Excerpt from a manuscript of Professor Volkens. 
