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well, and a student of tree diseases, especially wood 

 decay. Living in the time and under the influence of 

 the Ungerian period he misinterpreted the relation of 

 the fungus myceliiun to the decayed wood in which he 

 was the first to record its occurrence. It remained for 

 his son to make the correct interpretation. Robert 

 Hartig received his early schooling in Braunschweig, 



Robert Hartig. 

 Father of forest pathology. (From a portrait in "Phytopathology," 



vol. V.) 



spending much time with his father who was at that time 

 in the forest service there. Trained as a professional 

 forester, he was given his bachelor's degree at the age 

 of twenty. He traveled through the forests of Germany 

 for two years, served one year in the army, and finally 

 went to the University of Berlin in the autumn of 1865. 

 Two years later he took his doctor's degree from the 



