INDEX 



295 



252, 260; jubilee celebrations, 

 249-50 ; last illness, 254-73 ; last 

 days at Pasteur Institute, 256-73 ; 

 death, 273 ; synopsis of work and 

 achievements, 276-81 



Metchnikoff, Madame, meeting with 

 Metchnikoff, 87, parents and 

 family, 87-8, 94, marriage, 89, 

 90, relations between husband 

 and wife, 90-95, illness of, in 

 1880, 104, loss of both parents, 

 112, illnesses of, 123, 181, 252 



Metchnikoff, Emilia Lvovna (nee 

 Nevahovna), appearance and dis- 

 position, 2, 5, 6, 93; a capable 

 housewife, 3 ; a devoted mother, 

 4, 6, 13, 14, 18, 37 ; delicacy of, 

 22 ; ancestors, 26 ; influence on 

 Elie Metchnikoff's choice of a 

 career, 41 ; endeavours to prevent 

 Elie's first marriage, 66 ; letters 

 to, from Elie quoted, 44-5, 65-69 ; 

 death of, 94 



Metchnikoff, Elena Samoilovna, 

 4, 8, 10 



Metchnikoff, Ilia Ivanovitch, home 

 at Panassovka, 1, appearance 

 and character, 2, marriage, 2, easy- 

 going temperament, and extrava- 

 gance, 2-6, attitude to his family 

 and servants, 6-7 



Metchnikoff, Ivan, 3, 8 



Metchnikoff, Katia, appearance and 

 character, 8, marriage, 16, 21, 

 other references, 12, 14 



Metchnikoff, Leo, 3, 8, illness of, 

 19, gifted but superficial nature 

 of, 19, 46-7 ; activities in Geneva 

 and connection with Garibaldi 

 Movement, 46-7, 80 



Metchnikoff, Nicholas, birth of, 3 ; 

 appearance, 8 ; his great-aunt's 

 favourite, 8, 10 ; boyhood pur- 

 suits, 17-18; enters Kharkoff 

 Lycee, 28 ; life in Kharkoff, 31 ; 

 death of, 230 



Microphagw, 163-4, 166 



Morosoffs, the, of Moscow, 189 



Moscow, Anthropological Society of, 

 Metchnikoff's report to, 85 



Moscow, International Congress, 

 1897, 164-5; Skin Disease Re- 

 search Society, 189 



Miiller, Fritz, Far Darwin, 50 



Muller's Archives, Metchnikoff's 

 memoir on the Vorticella in, 41 



Myriapoda, embryology of, 76, I 

 85 



Naegeli, 169 n. 



Naples, cholera epidemic in, 1865, 

 53; Metchnikoff's first stay at, 

 49-53, second stay, 62 



Napoleon, 260 n. 



Natural death, Metchnikoff's studies 

 of, 237, 280-81 



Natural science, Metchnikoff's cam- 

 paign for the teaching of, 100 



Nematodes, Metchnikoff's dis- 

 coveries, etc., 42, 46 



Nevahovitch, Leo, 26 



Nicholas I., 28 



Nobel Prize, the, 199 



Nocard, M., 265; appreciation of 

 Metchnikoff, 165 



Norden, Dr., 231 



Odessa, University of, 58-9, Metch- 

 nikoff's work at, 60-61, 98-9, 

 party intrigues at, 75, 101, rights 

 to autonomy threatened, 101-3, 

 Congress, 1883, 120, bacteriologi- 

 cal Institute founded at, 127 



Oldenburg, Prince of, 129 



Panassovka, the home of the 

 Metchnikoff s, 1, 3, fire at, 20-21 



Parenchymella, explanation of, 109- 

 110 



Paris, International Congress, 1900, 

 170 



Paris, air raids on, 246 



Pasteur, antirabic inoculations, 127, 

 Metchnikoff's first interview with, 

 132, friendship with Metchnikoff 

 and interest in phagocyte theory, 

 137, experiments in vaccination 

 andimmunity, 168-9, death of, 181, 

 discovery of lactic fermentation 

 microbe, 193, age at death, 265 



Pasteur Institute, the, 132, Metch- 

 nikoff's work and influence at, 134- 

 142, 144, Metchnikoff's apprecia- 

 tion of, 139, effect of outbreak of 

 European War on, 244-5 ; celebra- 

 tion of Metchnikoff's jubilee, 249 



Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, 24, 

 25,26 



Petersburg, 2, 19, Congress of 

 Russian Naturalists at, 1867,60-61, 

 difficult conditions of Metchni- 

 koff's work at, 63-4, 71, foundation 

 of Bacteriological Institute at, 

 129 



Petersburg Geographical Society, 82 



Petrushka, 4, 12, 13 



