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CHAPTEE VII 



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1856-1861. The KharkofF Lyc^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 



CHAPTEE VIII 



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



CHAPTEE IX 



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



CHAPTEE X 



1863. Kharkoff University — Physiology — The Vorticella — 



Controversy with Kiihne — The Origin of Species — Gastero- ^ 



tricha — University degree .... 40) 



CHAPTEE 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 



CHAPTEE 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. Fddorovitch — Educational questions — 

 Difficulties of life in Petersburg . . . .68 



