xvi LIFE OF ELIE METCHNIKOFF 

 CHAPTEK VII 



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1856-1861. The Kharkoff Lyce~e Bogomoloff and Socialism 

 Atheism Natural History studies Private lodgings 

 Private lessons in histology from Professor Tschelkoff A 

 borrowed microscope First article Italian opera The 

 gold medal . . . . . .28 



CHAPTER VIII 

 An early love A schoolfellow's sister A pretty sister-in-law . 35 



CHAPTER IX 



1862. Journey to Germany Leipzig, Wiirzburg A hasty return 37 



CHAPTER X 



1863. Kharkoff University Physiology The Vorticella 

 Controversy with Kiihne The Origin of Species Gastero- 

 tricha University degree . . . .40 



CHAPTER XI 



1864-1866. Heligoland Giessen Congress Leuckart Visit 

 to Leo Metchnikoff at Geneva Socialist gatherings 

 Metchnikoffs discovery appropriated by Leuckart Naples 

 Kovalevsky Comparative embryology Embryonic 

 layers Bakounine and Setchenoff Cholera at Naples 

 Gottingen Anatomical studies Munich ; von Sieboldt 

 Music Return to Naples Intracellular digestion . 43 



CHAPTER XII 



1867-1868. Petersburg Baer Prize Return home Friend- 

 ship with Cienkovsky Odessa Naturalists' Congress at 

 Petersburg Departure from Odessa Zoological Lecturer's 

 Chair at Petersburg Messina Enforced rest Reggio 

 Naples Controversy with Kovalevsky Visit to the 

 B. family Mile. Fe"dorovitch Educational questions 

 Difficulties of life in Petersburg . . . .58 



