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ceeded at once to the botanical garden, located at Dahlem just 
south of the city. 
Through the: kindness: of Professor Urban, assistant director, 
and Dr. Lindau, curator of the mycological collections, I was 
able to examine the large number of tropical gill-fungi in the 
herbarium of the Berlin Botanical Garden, consisting of Wright’s 
uban Fungi from the bie eaied Heenan the Duss duplicates 
from Guadeloupe, and imp tions from South America, 
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Fic. 10. Portrait of Elizabeth Moraeus, wife of Linnaeus, at the Hammar 
house. The celebrated botanist owed much of his success to the eA en- 
couragement, and assistance of his beautiful and intelligent wife. 
Africa, and elsewhere. This work required four days, but the 
time was well spent, especially because of the extensive knowl- 
edge gained of African and oriental tropical species. 
The plantations in the Berlin Botanical Garden have developed 
greatly since I last saw them in 1906, particularly those repre- 
senting the ane ibudon of plants and the dwarfed 
