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founder of all our modern ideas regarding genetics and 

 heredity ; 



2. Erich Tschermak, whose rediscovery of Mendel's 

 discoveries brought forth the great impetus for experi- 

 mental work in Austria ; 



3. Eugen Steinach, whose work on gland transplanta- 

 tion and rejuvenescence has resulted in a world-wide im- 

 petus along these paths; 



4. R. Barany, who won the Nobel Prize in medicine in 

 1914 for his work in the physiology and pathology of the 

 semicircular canals of the ear ; 



5. Friederich Pregl, whose work with the ultramicro- 

 scope and his findings of new microanalytic methods 

 brought him the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1923. 



6. Richard Zsigmondy, who became Nobel laureate in 

 chemistry in 1925 for his extraordinary work on colloids. 



7. Anton Handlirsch, renowned for his great work in 

 entomological paleontology. 



Belgium 



The outstanding name in Belgium is that of Jules 

 Bordet, authority on toxins, whose work on immunity and 

 sera, and on whooping cough made him Nobel laureate 

 in medicine in 1919. 



British Isles 



One of the interesting movements taking place in the 

 British Isles is the establishment of the Empire Market- 



