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HANS MOLISCH, whose death at the age of eighty-one years took place on December 8, was born in Brünn in 1856, the son of an intelligent and progressive nurseryman, who employed his son in his early years in his business, so that from his boyhood Molisch became interested in plants, and already when at the Grammar School in Brünn he distinguished himself by his botanical knowledge. His enthusiasm for the subject may have beenfurther fired by his knowledge of the experimental plant-breeding which was being carried on in Brünn by the Abbé Mendel, who was a friend of his father. At any rate, when he entered the University of Vienna in 1876, he had already made up his mind to become a botanist, and in his autobiography, which was reviewed in NATURE of September 28, 1935, p. 494, he speaks with enthusiasm of his teacher, Julius Wiesner, and also of many kindnesses he received from Kerner von Marilaun, the director of the Botanical Gardens.
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Prof. H. Molisch. Nature 141, 108–109 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141108a0
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