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  Hugo 
  yon 
  Mohl, 
  born 
  April 
  8, 
  1805, 
  was 
  the 
  fourth 
  of 
  five 
  brothers, 
  

   all 
  of 
  whom 
  were 
  men 
  of 
  note, 
  either 
  for 
  public 
  services 
  or 
  intellectual 
  

   ability. 
  His 
  father 
  was 
  some 
  time 
  Minister 
  at 
  Wurtemberg 
  for 
  Home 
  

   Affairs 
  and 
  "Worship, 
  while 
  his 
  mother, 
  a 
  person 
  of 
  exceptional 
  gifts, 
  was 
  

   the 
  daughter 
  of 
  Autenrieth, 
  Finance 
  Minister 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  State. 
  

  

  Yon 
  Mohl's 
  early 
  education 
  was 
  obtained 
  at 
  the 
  Gymnasium 
  of 
  his 
  

   native 
  town, 
  Stuttgart. 
  In 
  his 
  nineteenth 
  year 
  (1823) 
  he 
  entered 
  the 
  

   University 
  of 
  Tubingen, 
  where 
  (in 
  1828) 
  he 
  graduated 
  in 
  medicine. 
  In 
  

   his 
  inaugural 
  dissertation 
  (alluded 
  to 
  below) 
  he 
  clearly 
  foreshadowed 
  the 
  

   course 
  in 
  science 
  in 
  which 
  he 
  was 
  to 
  preeminently 
  excel. 
  It 
  was 
  his 
  

   father's 
  wish 
  that 
  he 
  should 
  devote 
  himself 
  to 
  surgery. 
  This, 
  however, 
  

   was 
  distasteful 
  to 
  him 
  ; 
  and 
  the 
  intercourse 
  into 
  which 
  he 
  was 
  thrown 
  

   during 
  the 
  next 
  few 
  years 
  with 
  Yon 
  Martius, 
  Zuccarini, 
  Steinheil, 
  and 
  

   other 
  botanists, 
  soon 
  determined 
  the 
  direction 
  of 
  his 
  pursuits. 
  In 
  1831 
  

   he 
  contributed 
  to 
  the 
  great 
  work 
  of 
  Marti 
  us 
  on 
  Palms 
  a 
  memoir 
  on 
  the 
  

   structure 
  of 
  the 
  stems 
  of 
  those 
  plants. 
  In 
  this 
  year 
  he 
  was 
  nominated 
  

   first 
  " 
  adjunct 
  " 
  to 
  the 
  Botanic 
  Garden 
  of 
  St. 
  Petersburg, 
  a 
  post 
  which, 
  

   however, 
  he 
  did 
  not 
  accept, 
  owing 
  to 
  his 
  being 
  appointed 
  Professor 
  of 
  

   Physiology 
  at 
  Bern, 
  whither 
  he 
  went 
  in 
  1832. 
  After 
  the 
  death 
  of 
  

   Schubler 
  he 
  returned, 
  in 
  1835, 
  to 
  Tubingen 
  as 
  Professor 
  of 
  Botany 
  in 
  the 
  

   University 
  ; 
  and 
  here 
  he 
  remained, 
  notwithstanding 
  many 
  brilliant 
  pro- 
  

   posals 
  tempting 
  him 
  elsewhere, 
  till 
  the 
  time 
  of 
  his 
  death. 
  The 
  interests 
  

   of 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  Tubingen 
  were 
  matters 
  about 
  which 
  he 
  felt 
  a 
  keen 
  

   solicitude, 
  and 
  the 
  foundation 
  of 
  a 
  Faculty 
  of 
  Natural 
  Science 
  in 
  that 
  

   University 
  was 
  essentially 
  his 
  work. 
  In 
  1843 
  the 
  Order 
  of 
  the 
  Crown 
  of 
  

   Wurtemberg 
  was 
  conferred 
  on 
  him 
  and 
  he 
  was 
  ennobled. 
  About 
  this 
  time 
  

   he 
  was 
  obliged 
  to 
  make 
  a 
  prolonged 
  stay 
  in 
  South 
  Tyrol 
  on 
  account 
  of 
  

   delicate 
  health. 
  He 
  recovered 
  ; 
  but 
  although 
  a 
  man 
  of 
  great 
  stature 
  and 
  

   robust 
  build, 
  he 
  appears, 
  after 
  he 
  had 
  accomplished 
  his 
  sixtieth 
  year, 
  to 
  

   have 
  fallen 
  "into 
  chronic 
  ill 
  health. 
  He 
  suffered 
  from 
  pleurisy 
  and 
  attacks 
  

   of 
  diarrhoea. 
  Eventually 
  he 
  became 
  very 
  reserved 
  in 
  manner 
  and 
  sub- 
  

   ject 
  to 
  giddiness. 
  On 
  the 
  morning 
  of 
  Easter 
  Monday, 
  April 
  1, 
  1872, 
  

   having 
  been 
  cheerful 
  and 
  well 
  the 
  night 
  before, 
  he 
  was 
  found 
  dead 
  

   in 
  bed. 
  

  

  These 
  particulars 
  are 
  derived 
  from 
  the 
  memoir 
  which 
  appeared 
  in 
  the 
  

   ' 
  Botanische 
  Zeitung 
  ' 
  for 
  1872. 
  Yon 
  Mohl 
  was 
  elected 
  a 
  Foreign 
  Member 
  

   of 
  the 
  Royal 
  Society, 
  March 
  26, 
  1868. 
  

  

  In 
  describing 
  fully 
  Yon 
  Mohl's 
  scientific 
  career 
  and 
  position, 
  it 
  would 
  

   be 
  necessary 
  to 
  write 
  the 
  history 
  of 
  vegetable 
  histology. 
  His 
  work 
  is 
  

   practically 
  coincident 
  with 
  the 
  application 
  of 
  the 
  higher 
  powers 
  of 
  the 
  

   microscope 
  to 
  the 
  investigation 
  of 
  vegetable 
  tissue. 
  Confining 
  himself 
  

   almost 
  exclusively 
  to 
  the 
  higher 
  classes 
  of 
  plants, 
  from 
  the 
  group 
  of 
  Mus- 
  

   cineae 
  upwards 
  (and 
  neglecting 
  the 
  Algae, 
  Fungi, 
  and 
  Lichens), 
  there 
  is 
  

   hardly 
  a 
  point 
  of 
  any 
  consequence 
  in 
  which 
  some 
  research 
  or 
  investigation 
  

  

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