KARL NIKOLAS

FRAAS  010-1875), German botanist and agriculturist, was born at Rattelsdorf, near Bamberg, on the 8th of September 181o . After receiving his preliminary education at, the gymnasium of Bamberg, he in 183o entered the university of Munich, where he took his doctor's degree in 1834 . Having devoted great attention to the study of botany, he went to Athens in 1835 as inspector of the court garden; and in April 1836 he became professor of botany at the university . In 1842 he returned, to Germany and became teacher at the central agricultural school at Schleissheim . In 1847 he was appointed professor of agriculture at Munich, and in 1851. director of the central veterinary college . For many years he was secretary of the Agricultural Society of Bavaria, but resigned in 1861 . He died at his estate of Neufreimann, near Munich, on the 9th of November 1875 . His principal works are: ErotxsIca rigs Boravuci s (Athens, 1835); Synopsis florae classicae (Munich, 1845) ; Klima and Pflanzenwelt in der Zeit (Landsh., 1847) ; Histor.-encyklopad . Grundriss der Landwirthschaftslehre (Stuttgart, 1848); Geschichte der Landwirthschaft (Prague, 1851); Die Schule des Landbaues (Munich, 1852); Baierns Rinderrassen (Munich, 1853); Die kiinstliche Fischerzeugung (Munich, 1854) ; Die Natur der Landwirthschaft (Munich, s857); Bud; der Natur fur Landwirthe (Munich, 186o) ; Die Ackerbauhrisen and ihre Heilmittel (Munich, 1866) ; Das Wurzelleben der Guitar pflanzen (Berlin, 1872) ; and Geschichte der Landbau and Forstwissenschaft seit dem r6c°" Jahrh . (Munich, 1865) . He also founded and edited a weekly agricultural paper, the Schranne .