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houses and various workshops and cages for the larger animals. The 

 garden is screened from the passing throng by a vine-covered fence and 

 a row of leafy shrubs and trees. As one enters the hall of the institu- 

 tion, he sees, on every hand, the preparations and specimens resulting 

 from the experimental work so successfully carried on here. In the 

 middle of the building are five parallel corridors, while to either side and 

 in the rear are suites of rooms for manifold purposes. 



The Vienna Institution for Experimental Biology includes zoolog- 

 ical, botanical and physico-chemical sections. By virtue of an agree- 



Fig. 1. Front View of the Vienna Institution for Experimental Biology. 



ment with the royal Austrian ministry of education the state assists the 

 founders by maintaining two laboratory places in each of the zoological 

 and botanical sections. The award of these tables, as well as the pro- 

 motion of the general interests of the institution and its close affiliation 

 with the university institutes, is vested in a board of curators consisting 

 of the four professors of the biological subjects in the philosophical 

 faculty of the University of Vienna. Thus far these curators have been 

 Professors Wiesner, in botany (chairman), Grobben and Hatschek, in 

 investigation of the fresh waters of Austria, which thus far has been 

 established for the physico-chemical section which was organized in 

 1907, and this place is filled by the professors of the medical faculty. 

 The ministry of agriculture has made an annual appropriation for the 

 zoology, and v. Wettstein, in botany. A governmental table has been 

 used for botanical researches under the direction of Professor v. Wett- 



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