322 ALEXANDER BRAUN, 
first paper was entitled, ‘“‘Bemerkungen iiber einige Lebermoose ” 
(** Flora,” 28th December, 1821, no. 48). This was when he was 
sixteen and a half years of age. Then there followed (‘ Flora,”’ 1822, 
28th November, no. 44) an article on Ovxalis corniculata and stricta. 
Tn 1823 he went to the Italian Alps (the Spliigen) with his uncle, F. 
Mayer, who has described the journey in “Flora” for 1823, p. 49. 
n this occasion Arundo Plinit Turre was collected for the first time 
1824, p. 108 f 
sicarva found about Carlsruhe (“ Flora,” 1824, p. 353). Besides this, 
he wrote for the ‘ Sylloge” (1827, p. 81) “* Observationes queedam in © 
LElatines species.” : 
There has probably never been a botanist who while a schoolboy 
contributed so much to scientific literature, and with such success as 
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Braun was on terms of fri Pp rs 
his life, Louis Agassiz. from Orbe, Canton Waadt, and Carl Schimper. 
_ in 1827 Braun and Agassiz went to the University of Munich, 
chiefly to hear the lectures of Oken and Schelling, whither they 
persuaded Schimper in 1828 to follow. Braun’s chief work during 
his stay in Munich was independent botanical investigation, 
especially in morphology, to which he was led by Schimper with 
whom he worked. Hi 
this period. 
The desire of his father that he should settled down to some fixed 
occupation led him to obtain, in September, 1829, a degree in absentia, 
at Tiivingen, inthe Philosophical Faculty,* on the presentation of a thesis 
___ * He was afterwards, on 13th J ie baie ee 
‘University of Rostock. ” June, 1862, made a Doctor of Medicine by the _ 
