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BIOLOGY AND ITS MAKERS 



ture, to which were added the ideas derived from the study of 

 the development of organs. He was endowed with an intensely 

 keen insight, an insight which enabled him to separate from 

 the vast mass of facts the important and essential features, 

 so that they yielded results of great interest and of lasting im- 

 portance. This gifted anatomist attracted many young men 



FIG. 48. KARL GEGENBAUR, 1826-1903. 



from the United States and from other countries to pursue 

 under his direction the study of comparative anatomy. He 

 died in Heidelberg in 1903, where he had been for many years 

 professor of anatomy in the university. 



In the group of living German anatomists the names of 

 Fiirbringer, Waldeyer, and Wiedersheim can not go unmen- 

 tioned. 



