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SACHS, JULIUS VON (1832-1897)

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 973 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SACHS, JULIUS VON (1832-1897) , German botanist, was born at Breslau on the 2nd of October 1832. At an early age he showed a taste for natural history, and on leaving school he became, in 1851, private assistant' to the physiologist J. E. Purkinje at -Prague. In 1856 he graduated as
doctor
  of philosophy, and then adopted a botanical career, establishing himself as Privatdozent for plant physiology in the university of 'Prague. In 1859 he was appointed physiological, assistant to the Agri-cultural
Academy
  of Tharandt in Saxony; and in 186x he was called to be director of the
Polytechnic
  at Chemnitz, but was almost immediately transferred to the Agricultural
Academy
  at Poppelsdorf, near Bonn, where he 'remained until 1867, when he was nominated professor of botany in the university of Freiburg-im-Breisgau. In 1868 he accepted the chair,of botany in the university of Wiirzburg,. which he continued to occupy (in spite of calls to all the important German universities) until his death on the 29th of May 1897. -
Sachs achieved distinction ash an investigator, a writer and a teacher; his name will ever be especially associated with the
great
  development of plant physiology which marked the latter half of -the- 19th century, though there is scarcely a branch of
botany to which he did not materially contribute. His earlier papers, scattered through the volumes of botanical journals and of the publications of learned societies (a collected edition was published in 189293), are of
great
  and varied
interest
 . Prominent among them is. the
series
  of " Keimungsgeschichten," which laid the foundation of our knowledge of microchemical methods, as also of the morphological and physiological details. of germination. Then there is his resuscitation of the method of " water-culture," and the application of it to the'investigation of the problems of nutrition; and further, his discovery that the
starch
 -grains to be found in chloroplastids are the first visible product of their assimilatory activity. His later papers were almost exclusively published in the three volumes of the Arbeiten des botanischen Instituts in Wiirzburg (187188). Among these are his investigation of the periodicity of growth in length, in connexion with which he devised the self-registering auxanometer, by which he established the retarding influence of the highly refrangible rays of the spectrum on the rate of growth;, his researches on heliotropism and ;geotropism, in which he introduced the " clinostat "; his
work
  on the structure and the' arrangement of cells in growing-points; the elaborate experimental evidence upon which he based his " imbibition-theory " of the transpiration-current; his exhaustive study of the assimilatory activity of the green leaf; and other papers of
interest
 . Sachs' first published volume was the Randbuch der Experimentalphysiologie der Pflanzen (1865; French edition, 1868), which gives an admirable account of the state of knowledge in certain departments of the subject, and includes a great deal of
original
  information. This was followed in 1868 by the first edition of his famous Lehrbuch der Botanik, by far the best book of its kind. It is a comprehensive
work
 , giving an able summary of the botanical science of the period, enriched with the results of many
original
  investigations. The fourth and last German edition was published in 1874, and two English editions were issued by the Oxford Press in 1875 and 1882 respectively. The Lehrbuch was eventually superseded by the Vorlesungen fiber Pflanzenphysiologie (1st ed., 1882; znd ed., 1887; Eng. ed., Oxford, 1887), a work more limited in
scope
 , but yet covering more ground than its title would imply; though it is a remarkable' book, it has not gained the general recognition accorded to the Lehrbuch. Finally, there is the Geschichte der Botanik (1875); a brilliant and learned account of the development of the various branches of botanical science from the middle of the 16th century up to 186o, of which an English edition was published in 1890 by the Oxford Press. As a teacher Sachs exerted great influence, for his vigorous personality and his ready and lucid utterance enabled him not only to instruct, but to fire his students with something of his own enthusiasm.
A full account of Sachs' life and work was given by Professor Goebel, formerly his assistant, in Flora (1897), of which an English translation appeared in Science Progress for 1898. There is also aft obituary notice of him in the Proc. Roy. Soc, vol. lxii. (S. H. V*.)


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