428 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
In 1860 he published, in Latin, a synopsis of the European 
Mosses, preceded by a history of Br ryology, and an exposition 
of the ‘general characters of this order of plants, with systematic 
tables, maps representing the geographical espe: of the 
species, and plates for illustrations of the era. A second 
trod enlarged edition of the work was otiblinhed | in 1876. 
Th seum of Strasburg was already, when Schimper became 
its director, very rich in specimens of fossil plants. A large por- 
tion of the materials published by Brongniart in his Végétawx Fos- 
siles had been derived from it. Schim mper had there favorable 
oe to satisfy his taste for vegetable paleon ntology, a 
branch which had been part of his study in the German universities. 
An sadiinate “friend and collaborator of Hugo Mohl, Alex. Braun, 
and other German physiologists of celebrity, he had acquired great 
proficiency in the anatomy of the vegetable organs. Already, in 
1840, he published, with the codperation of A. Niougeot, a mono- 
graph of the fossil plants of cp Gres bigarré des Vosges. Later, 
in 1862, another work of the same kind, on the Végétaua des Ter- 
rains de Transition des Vosges, was prepared w with the assistance 
of Keechlin Schumberg, who hick ished the geological exposition. 
ese were mere preparations for am much larger pmehe 
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