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THE death of Dr. August Wilhelm Eichler, briefly announced in a previous number, is a great loss to botanical science, and especially to systematic botany. Year by year we are losing men of wide and consequently sound knowledge of plants without their places being adequately filled. We have doubtless arrived at a stage in botany where specialists are necessary; yet we venture to assert that men of general attainments are better qualified than specialists, in a narrow sense, for the head of large botanical establishments, such as the one over which the late Dr. Eichler presided, and which greatly extended its reputation during the nine years he was Director.
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August Wilhelm Eichler . Nature 35, 493–494 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/035493b0
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