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IN the American Botanical Gazette for December 1888 (vol. xiii. No. 12) there is a paper by Mr. William R. Dudley on the Botanical Institute at Strassburg. This paper is valuable and interesting as showing the sort of provision for botanical study that is thought right and necessary in Germany. The Institute forms part of the new University buildings of Strassburg. Mr. Dudley gives plans of the ground floor and first floor, and from these it appears that a considerable portion of the building is reserved as a residence for the Director and his family, and that two rooms are allotted to the Director's assistant, usually a young man who has recently taken his degree as a doctor. On the ground floor, besides the living-rooms, are a larger and smaller lecture-room, a “Lehrsammlung” or illustrative museum, and a “preparation-room,” which is used in the preparation of lectures, and is also found useful by those who wish to carry on work in connection with the museum. On the first floor a large part of the space is given up to laboratories. It includes also an herbarium, a library, a weighing-room, a chemical-room, a dark room, and a small greenhouse.
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The Strassburg Botanical Institute . Nature 39, 284 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/039284a0
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