Am.  Jour.  Pharru.  i  Albert  Hi! o'er  ^60 
December.  1905.  I  Silver  1  iici^tr. 
During  the  present  director's  period  of  office  the  principal  changes 
that  have  taken  place  are  the  removal,  in  1895,  of  the  wire  fence 
that  used  to  separate  the  Botanic  Gardens  from  the  Arboretum,1 
and  the  surrender  to  the  Kew  authorities  of  the  private  grounds  of 
the  Crown,  which  were  thrown  open  to  the  public  on  May  1,  1899. 
The  public  path  traversing  these,  however,  is  railed  off  from  the 
remainder  of  the  grounds  ;  this  being  done  to  avoid  disturbing  the 
wild  birds  that  have  taken  refuge  in  that  retreat.  The  students' 
garden  has  also  been  abolished,  in  order  to  make  room  for  the 
Herbarium  extension. 
[ To  be  continued, ] 
ALBERT  HILGER. 
By  Virgil  Cobi.entz. 
Obermedizinal  and  Hofrat  Prof.  Dr.  Albert  Hilger,  director  of 
the  Pharmaceutical  Institute  and  Laboratory  for  Applied  Chemistry 
in  the  University  of  Munich,  died  in  consequence  of  an  apoplectic 
stroke  on  May  1 8th.  Born  May  2,  1839,  in  Homburg,  he  began 
his  apprenticeship  as  apothecary  in  his  fifteenth  year  at  Langen- 
kandel,  his  assistantship  being  served  at  Carlsruhe,  where  he  also 
took  up  the  study  of  chemistry  in  1857.  It  was  not  till  1 861  that 
he  took  up  his  chemical  work  in  earnest  at  Wuerzburg  which  he 
continued  at  Heidelberg,  where  he  passed  the  State  Pharmaceutical 
examinations  and  made  his  doctorate.  During  the  years  1864-67, 
Hilger  served  as  assistant  to  Professor  Scherer  in  the  Wuerzburger 
Chemical  Laboratory.  From  '67  till  '69  he  conducted  a  private 
chemical  laboratory  as  well  as  served  as  director  of  the  Agricultural 
Laboratory  of  Lower  Franconia.  For  two  years  ('7i-'72)  after 
the  death  of  Professor  Strecker,  Hilger  occupied  the  chair  of  Chem- 
istry of  the  University  of  Wuerzburg,  when  he  responded  to  the 
call  of  the  University  of  Erlangen  to  fill  the  chair  of  Applied  Chem- 
istry and  Pharmacy.2    Here  he  remained  until  1892,  when  he  was 
1  The  position  which  it  occupied  is  shown  by  a  dark  line  in  the  map  on  the 
smaller  scale  (Plate  I).  The  map  on  the  larger  scale  (Plate  X)  corresponds 
roughly  to  that  portion  of  Kew  Gardens  known  as  the  Botanic  Gardens, 
although  the  latter  title  is  now  perfectly  applicable  to  the  whole  of  them. 
2  Pharmacy,  in  the  European  sense,  is  pharmaceutical  chemistry,  the  manipu- 
lative art  (practical  pharmacy)  is,  to  my  knowledge,  not  taught  at  any  of  the 
pharmaceutical  institutes. 
