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Pollender ( ). German veterinarian. His paper on the 



microscopic and microchemical investigation of anthrax blood 

 was published in 1855 in Vierteljahrschr. f. ger. Med., Bd. 8. 



Ponchet, Felix Archimede (1800-1872). French naturalist. Director 

 of the Museum of Natural History in Rouen. Opponent of Pasteur. 

 His " He'tSroge'nie, ou Trait6 de la g6n6ration spontanee, etc." 

 was published in Paris in 1859 (pp. 32, 672) and his "L'Origine 

 de la Vie" (3d ed.) in Paris in 1868. The Maladetta on which 

 Pouchet opened flasks of hay-infusion, all of which clouded, is a 

 glaciated mountain in the Alps. 



Provostaye, or Herve de la Provostaye, Frederick (1812-1863). French 

 crystallographer. 



Quatrefages de Breau, Jean Louis Armand de (1810-1892). French 

 anatomist, zoologist and anthropologist. Member of the Royal 

 Society of London. A clear, forcible, fluent writer. He wrote a 

 "Histoire ge'ne'rale des races humaines" (1886-1889), and "La 

 race prussiene" (1871) which led to a polemic with Virchow. For 

 portrait see Pop. Sci. Monthly, March, 1885. 



Quevenne, Theodore Auguste (1805-1855). 



Rabenhorst, Ludwig (1806-1881). German botanist. Author of a 

 cryptogamic Flora of Germany; "Flora Europsea algarum," etc.; 

 collected and distributed dried cryptogamic plants. Founded 

 "Hedwigia." 



Raulin, Jules ( . French chemist and physicist. Student 



at the Normal School. Pasteur's assistant. Professor in Brest, 

 Caen and Lyons. His famous paper "Etudes chimiques sur la 

 ve"ge"tation" is in Ann. des Sci. Nat. Bot. V se"r. Tome XI, Paris, 

 1869, pp. 93-299. 



Rayer, Roger J. ( ). French physician and pathologist. 



Rayer's account of the discovery of the rods in anthrax blood is in 

 "C. R. Soc. biol.," 1850, p. 141. 



Recklinghausen, Friedrich Daniel von (1833-1910). German patho- 

 logical anatomist. Virchow's student. Assistant in Berlin. 

 Professor in Konigsberg, Wurzburg, and Strassburg. Author of im- 

 portant papers on inflammation, the lymphatic system, and multiple 

 fibromas. Discovered the wandering cells of the connective tissue 

 and the ameboid movements of living pus cells. His paper on 

 Erysipelas is in Virchow's Archiv, Bd. 60, 1874. For portrait see 

 Pagel, p. 1351. 



Redi, Francesco (1626-1698). Italian physician and naturalist. Born 

 in Arezzo, practiced in Florence. Discovered the itch mite. Ap- 

 plied the experimental method in natural science. He was also 

 a poet. For portrait see Garrison, p. 245. 



