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his students found in him not only a teacher, but also a sympathetic 

 friend, interested in their researches, but also interested in their welfare 

 after leaving his laboratory. 



His first publications dealt with the embryology of gymnosperms, 

 then with the more minute details of the life-history of angiosperms. In 

 these researches he showed a profound grasp of the fundamentals of 

 comparative morphology and gradually turned more and more to the 

 study of the cell, until his laboratory became recognized as the most 



mportant cytological center in . eaa ^^^ 



the world. 



He was a remarkable lec- 

 turer. Although a master art- 

 ist, he seldom used the chalk, 

 but presented his subject in 

 such vivid word pictures that 

 any further illustration seemed 

 unnecessary. His usual lec- 

 tures to students covered mor- 

 phology from the algae to the 



plants, and every 





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flowering 



Friday he gave a lecture, open 

 to the public, upon some bo- 

 tanical subject of popular 

 interest. 



In the research laboratory 

 he visited every student every 

 day, and always had some 

 helpful suggestion or criticism, but the student would learn on the first 

 day that Strasburger had no time to waste. This daily round, in 

 which he might visit as many as eight investigators, seldom occupied 

 more than half an hour, but occasionally, after the usual laboratory- 

 hours or on Sundays, he would come into the laboratory, when only 

 one or two students were present, and talk familiarly on various 

 subjects for an h 



our or more. 



particul 



American students. It was my privilege to know him rather intimately 

 at Bonn, and during the ten years which have elapsed since my return, a 

 constant correspondence has continued the inspiration and helpfulness 

 received while at his laboratory. Some quotations from this correspond- 

 ence will be of more interest than anything else one could write. In a 

 letter of June 20, 1010, he savs: "I prize very highly the kindly recogni- 



