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and gifted young men, who received from this great lumi- 

 nary of physiology by expression what he himself had de- 

 rived from contact with Alliller. There are to-day dis- 

 tributed through the universities a number of young 



Fig. 58. — Du Bois-Reymond, 1818-1896. 



physiologists who stand only one generation removed from 

 Johannes Aliiller, and w^ho still labor in the spirit that was 

 introduced into this department of study by that great master. 

 Du Bois-Reymond.— Du Bois-Rcymond (Fig. $8), an- 

 other of his distinguished pupils, came to occupy the chair 



