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KARL OUSTAVE UMPRICHT. SECOND PART. 



By John M. Holzinger. 



Since writing the above (see The Bryololgist for January, 1903,)! have 

 received the following data, which will correct and enlarge our knowledge 

 regarding Mr. Limpricht. For this information I am indebted to Dr. Paul 

 Richter, editor of the entire work of Rabenhorst's Cryptogamen-Flora, to 

 whom all moss students will be grateful for so much interesting information 

 about the author in question. 



My question having been addressed to Mr. Eduard Kummer, the pub- 

 lisher, regarding the completion of the Laubmoose, Dr. Richter informs me, 

 first, that the work will be brought to a fitting close by the son, Dr. Wolf- 

 gang Limpricht, who is also a botanist. The work yet to be finished includes 

 the supplements to half of Volume II., and to all of Volume III. For this 

 there are in hand many drawings by the author. Then will come the index 

 including synonyms for the entire work, which the author's son will also 

 furnish. 



Part 38 is now in press and will be published before the end of the year 

 (1902). It contains supplementary data to parts 14-26, that is, to Volume 

 II. Next year (1903) part 39 will close the entire work, and an additional 

 number will contain the general index. 



The following additional data are of interest. Mr. Limpricht was the 

 son of a gardener and nursery owner in Eckersdorf near Sagan in Prussian 

 Silesia. From 1853 to 1856 he completed his studies in the Normal School of 

 Bunzlau, Silesia. With the recommendation of ranking first in his class he 

 found a position as teacher in Obergliiserdorf near Liiben in Silesia. In 1858 

 he was called to teach in the higher Ladies' Seminary in Bunzlau, where he 

 found leisure to delve with zeal and with success into the study of the 

 natural sciences. Much inspiration in his efforts came to him from his Nor- 

 mal School teacher, subsequently Privy Counsellor, W. Prange, the well- 

 known Silesian botanist, R. von Wechtritz, and Professor Goppert in Breslau. 

 From these men he received much encouragement to take up botanical stud- 

 ies, and it was through their influence that he was in 1869 given the position 

 of teacher of the natural sciences in the higher schools in Breslau. Here he 

 was in 1871 introduced into the study of mosses by Professor [. Milde. 

 From that time on this was t@ be his special field of labor. 



At the University in Breslau he found further incentive to scientific 

 pursuits in his friendly association with Professors Goppert and Ferdinand 

 Cohn. both original investigators who in their special lines in Botany com- 

 mand leading positions. Besides his principal work as teacher in the High 

 School he was special instructor in the descriptive natural sciences in a 

 special school at Breslau for improving teachers and preceptresses, also cus- 

 todian for the Silesian Society for Popular Culture. He was also a corres- 

 ponding member in several scientific societies, both domestic and foreign. 

 In recognition of his scientific services the school authorities elected him in 

 1897 to the principalship of the schools where he had taught so long and so 

 successfully. 



