exviii Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (August, 
Of honours he has many. His own country made him a 
Geheimer Regierungsrat in 1894, and later a Geheimer Ober- 
gierungsrat, and the University of Cambridge, England, gave 
him a Doctor’s degree in 1904. 
He has travelled widely for the sake of studying vegeta- 
tion. He has beenin North Africa, East Africa, South Africa, 
India and Java. 
His publications are very numerous. First of all, as a 
systematic botanist he has monographed many groups of 
pla 
_ His chapter entitled Erliuterungen zu der Ubersicht iiber 
die Embryophyta siphonogama in the Nachtrige to his Naturliche 
Pflanzenjamilien is an attempt to indicate true affinities in the 
Higher plants. 
Professor Engler has shown a most remarkable adminis- 
trative ability. He has drawn the botanists of his own 
second is a series of monographs of groups of plants, and the 
third is a series of treatises on the vegetation of selected areas. 
The number of the scientists who have contributed to these 
works is a tribute to the genius, and is evidence of the wide 
trust placed in Dr. Engler. 
___Lastly, it is to be added that Dr. Engler has carried out, 
since he was called to Berlin, the removal of the University 
Botanic Garden from a smoky square in that great city to 4 
suburb, where it is now a large working concern not altogether 
unlike Kew, 
[I. H. Burxi2t.} 
Sree re ee hit Sto Sica Seatac 
1 Versuch einer Entwicklungsgeschichte der Pflanzenwelt inbeson 
bere der Florengebeite siet der Tertieeperiois 
® Entwicklung der Pfla 
ren und weitere Aufgaben denselben, 
graphie in der letzten hundert Jah- - 
