xlii Annual Report of the Council, 



then lectured successively at Bonn and Freiburg, and finally 

 was called to the University of Wiirzburg, where he established 

 himself definitely, in spite of many tempting offers from the 

 Universities of Munich, Berlin, and Vienna. 



It is with Wiirzburg that Sachs's name will always be 

 associated, and it is here that most of that work was done which 

 made Sachs the founder of Modern Vegetable Physiology. 



His first publication, summing up the older experiments in 

 Plant Physiology, with the incorporation of the results of his own 

 researches, was the Handbuch der Experimental-Physiologie der 

 i^«;20^;2, published, in 1865, as the 4th volume of Hofmeister's 

 Handbuch der physiologischen Botanik. 



Then followed his well-known Lehrbuch der Botanik^ which 

 rapidly passed through four editions, and was translated into 

 English and several other languages. 



In 1875 appeared the Geschichte der Botanik, an admirable 

 example of what a history of science should be, and which shows 

 his critical faculty at its best. This, as well as his Lectures on 

 the Physiology of Plants, was translated into English. His 

 numerous papers are characterised by the trenchant criticism of 

 his opponents, and by the clear and concise language which he 

 employed in the skilful unfolding of any new results obtained by 

 his carefully thought-out experiments. 



Sachs was elected an honorary member of this Society on 

 April 30th, 1872. A complete list of his papers will be found at 

 the end of the excellent biographical notice, by Professor Goebel, 

 in volume 84 of Flora. F. E. W. 



Edward James Stone was born in London on February 

 28th, 1 83 1. His early education was frequently interrupted 

 owing to ill health, and his systematic education really began 

 when he entered King's College, London, at the age of twenty- 

 one. In his twenty-fourth year he entered Queen's College, 

 Cambridge, and was fifth Wrangler in 1859. 



In i860, Mr. Stone was appointed First Assistant at the 

 Greenwich Observatory, where he remained ten years. In 1870, 



