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The Botanical Institute at Munich. 
EXPLANATION OF THE FIGURES ON PLATE I., ILLUSTRATING 
Mr. BEESLEY’S PAPER ON “A FOUNTAIN ALGA.” 
Fig. i. Zoospores germinating, a—Empty zoospore case, x 950 (about) 
Fig. 2. Young filament with lateral buds forming, x 625 (about). 
| x 625 (about). 
g. 3. Transverse walls formed, 
g. 4. Further stage of Fig 3. 
g. 5. The lateral budding is beginning to result in the filaments being 
appressed to one another, and so tending to form a flat plate, x 500 
g. 6. Fully-grown tliallus, just before the appearance of the internal 
division in the tliallus. x 950 (about), 
F'ig. 7. 'The cells in the centre of the tliallus are rounding off and one may 
be seen dividing into four, x 950 (about). 
Fig. 8. A tliallus, consisting of a piled-up central mass of rounded cells 
surrounded by' filaments of lighter colour, x 625 (about). 
Fig. 9. Portion of edge of a tliallus, showing internal rounded cells 
issuing out from the interior of the tliallus. x 950 (about) 
Fig. 10. Group of cells in the palmelloid condition—some are dividing 
into four, a —Convex chloropalst. x 950 (about). 
Fig. 11. Zoospores, b — A zoospore come to rest and rounded off. x 1100 
(about). 
Fig. 12. Alga attacked b}' a fungus, a - Sporangium, b— Spores of the 
fungus, c —Dead contents of Algal cell, x 950 (about) 
THE BOTANICAL INSTITUTE AT MUNICH. 
By an English Research Student. 
I N Munich all the various appurtenances of “ pure botany ” are 
concentrated in one Institute, which stands with the adjacent 
palm houses in a corner of the small Botanic Gardens in the 
centre of the town. This is exceedingly convenient, for all the 
resources of the University are at once at hand, and no time is 
wasted in going to and fro’ between library, museum, garden and 
laboratory. 
One would not, in fact, go far wrong in taking the Munich 
Institute as a model of what a Botanical Institute should be. 
Professor Goebel of course considers that there is a general want 
of space, but that is because he is the Professor of the Department; 
to an outsider, and particularly to one used to the close quarters of 
a London laboratory, there seems to be a palatial spaciousness 
about the buildings. These were rebuilt and fitted according to 
Professor Goebel’s directions, and in the number of practical con¬ 
veniences one sees the advantage of having a master mind to settle 
even the trifling arrangements of such a building. 
