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CIVIC BIOLOGY 



1839 Agassiz : wrote on fresh-water 

 tishes 



1841 Heliiiholtz : discovered rate of 

 nerve impulse 



1853 Molil : studied protoplasm (liv- 

 ing substance) 



1857 Pasteur : studied fermentation 



1858 Darwin : reported his work 



upon the origin of species 

 by natural selection 



1858 Wallace : reported his work 

 upon the origin of species 

 by natural selection 



1858 Virchow : worked out cellular 

 pathology ; founder of mod- 

 ern pathology 



1863 Huxley: wrote ''Evidence as 

 to Man's Place in Nature " 



1863 Lyell: wrote ''The Antiquity 

 of Man" 



1865 Sachs: studied structural bot- 

 any 



1865 Mendel : discovered the law of 

 heredity 



1867 Lister: worked out aseptic 

 surgery 



1875 Galton: studied inheritance 



1875 

 1880 

 1880 

 1886 



1893 

 1898 

 1888 

 1898 

 1898 



1900 

 1900 

 1900 



1903 

 1914 

 1915 



Hertwig, O. : studied ferti- 

 lization 

 Koch : proved the relation of 



bacteria to disease 

 Laveran : discovered malarial 



parasite (in the mosquito) 

 Leuckart: settled the modern 

 classification of animals ; 

 specialized on parasites 

 Weismann: studied germ-plasm 

 Reed 1 discovered relation 

 Finlay 1- between yellow fever 

 Lazear j and the mosquito 

 Howard : discovered relation 

 between typhoid fever and 

 the house fly 



' all,working inde- 

 pendently, redis- 

 covered ]VIenders 

 law of heredity 

 Stiles : discovered hookworm 



in the United States 

 Goddard : proved f eeble-mind- 



edness a unit character 

 Stockard : discovered influence 

 of alcohol on offspring 



De Vries 



Correns 

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