ANNOTATED LIST OF PERSONS 341 



"H faisait trop d'histoires, parlait trop de soi. . . le sot 

 projet qu'il a de se peindre." (Pascal.) 



Mflntz, Charles AchiUe (1846-1917). French agronomist. Member 

 of the Academy of Sciences, Officer of the Legion of Honor. Director 

 of the Laboratories of the National Agronomic Institute. 



Mosset, Charles ( ). Student of Joly in Toulouse. 



NMgeli, Karl Wilhelm von (1817-1891). Brilliant Swiss-German bota- 

 nist. Born near Zurich. Died in Munich. Studied in Zurich, 

 Genoa, and Berlin. Professor in Freiburg, Zurich and Munich. 

 Systematist of higher plants, morphologist, physiologist, algologist, 

 bacteriologist, student of evolution. His discovery of wild Hiera- 

 cium hybrids and of oligodynamic phenomena (effect of very dilute 

 poisons) in living cells are perhaps his best known work. He had 

 a habit of tasting his bacteriological cultures which enabled him to 

 make many fine discriminations but undoubtedly shortened his 

 life (Oscar Loew). Wrote with Schwendener Das Mikroskop," 

 2 ed. 1877. For a list of his books see Meyer's " Grosses Konversa- 

 tions-Lexikon," Leipzig, 1909. For a portrait see Wittrock II, 

 Tafl. 75. 



Needham, John Turberville (1713-1781). English Jesuit, physicist 

 and microscopist. Member of the Royal Society. Founded the 

 Academy of Sciences in Brussels and was its director. Wrote 

 "Microscopical Discoveries" (1745) and "Idee sommaire, ou vue 

 gene*rale du systeme physique et me'taphysique sur la generation" 

 (1780). Engaged in a dispute with Voltaire on miracles. Wrote 

 a book to show that the Chinese written characters indicate descent 

 from the Egyptians. Walter Needham, with whom he is sometimes 

 confused, as in Garrison, p. 318, died before Spallanzani was born. 



Nocard, Edmond Isidore Etienne (1850-1903). French veterinarian. 

 Professor in Alfort. Member of the Academy of Medicine. Showed 

 in 1880 that the cause of rabies is a non-filterable (solid) virus. 

 He used dog saliva and filtered it through plaster of Paris what 

 came through was innocuous, what remained on the filter was 

 infectious. Wrote on tuberculosis, glanders, tetanus, rabies, 

 peripneumonia, etc. Author with Leclainche of "Les maladies 

 microbiennes des Animaux" (3d edition, 8 vo., 2 volumes. Paris, 

 1905), an important work on parasitic diseases of domestic animals. 

 Was on the Egyptian cholera commission (1883). Nocard was son 

 of a wood merchant. For a portrait see Rec. de m6d. ve't. 8 e6r. 

 Tome X, No. 15, 15 aout, 1903. 



Nogttchi, Hideyo (1876 ). Distinguished Japanese pathologist 



working in the United States. Obtained Treponema pattidum 

 in pure culture. Showed connection between syphilis, general 

 paresis and locomotor ataxia by finding the parasite of syphilis 



