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was  alike  at  home  in  pure  and  applied  science.  His  papers  on  the 
humus  layer  of  the  Composite?  published  in  the  Denkschriften  der 
mathematiscli-naturi^isscnschaftlichcn  Klasse  der  kaiserlichen  Aka- 
demie  Wisscnschaftcn  and  the  Berichte  der  deutschen  botanischen 
Gesellschaft  are  classics  which  will  survive  as  long  as  the  study  of 
vegetable  histology.  In  the  applied  field  he  has  no  peer,  whatever 
the  branch — drugs,  foods,  textiles,  paper,  wood  or  even  horn  and 
bone.  The  practical  examples  given  in  his  Lehrbuch  der  tech- 
nischen  Mikroskopie  illustrate  his  remarkable  genius  in  unravelling 
court  mysteries  by  the  aid  of  the  microscope.  They  read  stranger 
than  any  detective  fiction. 
Of  my  several  photographs  of  Hanausek,  I  prize  most  one  bear- 
ing his  signature  and  the  motto  to  which  he  owed  his  success — > 
"Das  Beste  vm  Leben  ist  die  Arbeit"  (The  best  thing  in  life  is 
work).  He  was  never  idle,  and  he  died  in  the  midst  of  a  busy 
life. 
ABSTRACTED  AND  REPRINTED 
ARTICLES 
AN  EXPERIMENTAL  STUDY  OF  ECHINACEA  THERAPY* 
By  James  F.  Couch  and  T.  Giltner.    (Pathological  Division, 
Bureau  of  Animal  Industry,  U.  S.  Dept.  of  Agriculture.) 
This  investigation  was  undertaken  for  the  purpose  of  determin- 
ing the  usefulness  of  echinacea  as  a  remedy  in  several  pathological 
conditions  induced  by  bacteria,  their  products,  or  allied  toxins. 
The  experimental  animals  used  were  guinea  pigs.  The  preparations 
of  echinacea  employed  as  remedies  were  the  ''Specific  Medicine 
Echinacea"  and  the  "Subculoyd  Inula  and  Echinacea"  both  pre- 
pared and  furnished  by  Lloyd  Brothers  of  Cincinnati,  and  the 
Fluidextract  Echinacea,  N.  F.  4.   The  acute  experimental  pathologi- 
*  Author's  Abstract  of  article  in  Journal  Agric.  Research,  vol.  20;  No.  1, 
pp.  63-847,  1920. 
