346 ANNOTATED LIST OF PERSONS 



Reess, Max Ferdinand Friedrich (1845-1901). German mycologist. 

 Professor in Erlangen and director of the botanic garden. 

 Produced the first lichen synthesis. Published "Rust fungi of Ger- 

 man Conifers" (1869); "Alcoholic fermentation fungi" (1870); 

 "Nature of Lichens" (1879), etc. For portrait see Wittrock II, 

 Tafl. 125. 



Renan, Ernest (1823-1892). French Semitic scholar. Born in Brittany. 

 Member of the French Academy. Director of the College of France. 

 One of the most engaging and delightful writers of modern France. 

 Author of "Histoire des origines du Christianisme" (8 vols.); 

 "Histoire du peuple d'Israel" (5 vols.), "Ma Soeur Henriette," 

 "Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse," and many other books. For 

 portraits see Pop. Sci. Monthly, April, 1893, "Souvenirs d'enfance 

 etc." (Nelson ed.) and Abry, p. 630. 



Rindfleisch, Georg Eduard (1836-1908). German pathological anato- 

 mist. Assistant to Heidenhain. Professor in Zurich, Bonn and 

 Wurzburg. Author of a handbook of pathological anatomy 

 which passed through many editions. For portrait see Pagel, p. 

 1391. 



Rossignol, H. ( ). French veterinary surgeon of Melun. 



It was he who collected by subscription money for the famous 

 anthrax experiments at Pouilly-le-Fort. 



Roux, Pierre Paul Emile (1853 - ). French physician, bacteri- 

 ologist and pathologist. Pupil of Duclaux. Normal School as- 

 sistant. Collaborated with Pasteur, Chamberland, etc. Present 

 director of the Pasteur Institute. Dr. Roux has made important 

 contributions on rabies, diphtheria, tetanus and other diseases. 

 His studies of diphtheria with Yersin preceded and laid the foundation 

 for those of Behring and Kitasato. Diphtheritic antitoxin (serum) 

 obtained from vaccinated horses was used by Roux in 1894 in a 

 Paris hospital on hundreds of children with marvellous results. 

 For portraits see "Bacteria in Relation to Plant Diseases," vol. 

 I. Frontispiece. Carnegie Institution of Washington, and Mc- 

 Clure's Mag., 1893, p. 338. 



Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvray, due de (1675-1755). Brilliant, biting, 

 picturesque French diarist, especially of the Court of Louis XIV. 

 A great painter of manners. His "Memoirs" in 20 volumes is a 

 vast historical storehouse. For portraits see Abry, p. 296, and 

 Saint-Simon "Me'moires sur le Siecle de Louis XIV, et la Re"gence." 

 Bibliotheque Larousse, Paris, 1911 a good 4 vol. abridgement. 



"Nul ecrivain de'mocratique n'a port6 comme lui le fer rouge 

 dans les ulceres de la noblesse." (Larousse: Grand Diet, universel 

 du XIXe Siecle.) 



