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A ‘ FESTSCHRIFT’ celebrating the seventieth birthday of Dr. Karl von Goebel, professor of botany in the University of Munich, was published in 1925 as a special volume of Flora. It was initiated by an international committee including many of his colleagues, pupils, and friends: it comprises thirty-eight memoirs on the most varied botanical topics, and these themselves bear witness to the catholicity of the interests of the veteran whose birthday they celebrate. His election in 1926 as a foreign member of the Royal Society has marked the recognition in Great Britain of his great scientific career, happily by no means ended, though it has reached the prescribed span of life. These events followed closely upon the completion of the second and greatly enlarged edition of his “Organographie der Pflanzen.” The interest which they have aroused among botanists is readily understood, for the name of von Goebel is intimately associated with an essential change of scientific outlook upon the organisation of plants. This has lately been made more than ever apparent in a volume from his own pen, written in celebration of the centenary of the birth of his teacher, Hofmeister, a translation of which into English was lately published by the Ray Society, and reviewed in NATURE (Oct. 2, 1926, p. 473). This essay reveals with a truly philosophic touch the genius of the master, while it serves also as a natural guide to any appreciation of the life-work of the pupil, von Goebel himself.
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B., F. Organography of Plants1. Nature 119, 931–932 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119931a0
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