JULIUS SACHS 
Julius Sachs, a noted German botanist (b. Breslau, 1832; d. Wiirzburg, 1897), was 
a moost careful observer of the ways in which plants live and work. He had a re- 
markuably clear and forceful style of writing and an unusual ability in making 
illustrations. As investigator, writer, and teacher he organized the somewhat 
disconnected discoveries of others and, adding his own discoveries, established 
the science of plant physiology. His textbooks were unsurpassed in influence and 
gave to many students their first general view of botany. He published many 
important contributions to our knowledge of germination, the work of chlorophyll, 
and other processes of food-making and food transportation 
