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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXV. No. 631 



THE ERECTION OF A MONUMENT TO 

 THEODOB SCHWANN 



On the seventh of December, 1910, a cen- 

 tury will have elapsed since the day that 

 Theodor Schveann was born at Neuss on the 

 Rhine. 



His native town has resolved to raise to this 

 great son of hers a monument to be unveiled 

 on that memorable day. An appeal to the 

 public having been made to this effect by the 

 physicians of the Ehine country and the 

 medical faculty of the University of Bonn, a 

 considerable sum of money has been con- 

 tributed both by the inhabitants of Neuss and 

 especially by the physicians of Ehineland and 

 Westphalia. 



A primary fund for the realization of the 

 project being thus secured by his countrymen, 

 we may be pardoned if we address to the 

 biologists and especially to the physicians all 

 the world over the urgent request, to enable 

 us by their generosity to accomplish a work 

 destined to glorify one of theirs, and of whom 

 they may feel justly proud. 



Theodor Schwann's merit, we need scarcely 

 say, is so eminent, that it has been equalled 

 by few savants, surpassed by none. It was he 

 who, sixty-five years ago, joined his efforts to 

 those of M. J. Schleiden, and under the au- 

 spices of his master, Johannes Miiller, he was 

 the first to substantiate the cellular theory. 

 In the course of time he proved to be a pioneer 

 no less successful than indefatigable in the 

 domains of histology, physiology and biology; 

 an authority on the processes of fermenation, 

 decomposition, spontaneous generation and 

 digestion and last, not least, the discoverer of 

 pepsin. 



Every gentleman and friend of scientific 

 progress satisfies, therefore, but a duty of 

 honor in contributing for a monument in 

 honor of Schwann. 



Whosoever had the good fortune of know- 

 ing this modest man in his life and of looking 

 in his gentle and intelligent eye, will know 

 that his heart was not set on exterior things. 

 Ever ready to acknowledge the merit of others, 

 he aspired to no honors for himself: all the 

 more reason to honor him in his death. 



To his immortal master, Johannes Miiller, 



a statue of bronze has been lately erected in 

 his native tovfm of Coblenz; his collaborator 

 Schleiden has been similarly honored at Jena, 

 the chief scene of his labors. Let us, there- 

 fore, not be remiss in discharging our debt of 

 gratitude to Schwann whose name is linked 

 preeminently and forever to the substantiation 

 of the cellular theory, one of the greatest 

 achievements of modern science. 



Contributions are, please, to be addressed to 

 the ' Stadtische Sparkasse zu Neuss am Ehein. 

 Schwanndenkmal, Germany.' 



Germany. — Berlin: Geh. Eat Professor Dr. 

 Waldeyer, Geh. Eat Professor Dr. Hartwig, 

 Geh. Eat Professor Dr. Franz Eilhard- 

 Schulze, Professor Dr. Posner. Bonn: Geh. 

 Eat Professor Dr. Pfliiger, Geh. Eat Professor 

 Dr. von la Valette St. George. Breslau : Geh. 

 Eat Professor Dr. K. Hasse, Professor Dr. K. 

 Hiirthle. Erlangen: Professor Dr. Hauser, 

 Professor Dr. Eleischmann. Preiburg i. Br.: 

 Geh. Eat Professor Dr. Baumler. Giessen: 

 Professor Dr. K. Eckhard, Professor Dr. H. 

 Strahl. Gottingen: Geh. Eat Professor Dr. 

 Ebstein, Geh. Eat Professor Dr. Esser. 

 Greifswald : Professor Dr. Bleibtreu, Geh. Eat 

 Professor Dr. Hosier. Halle: Professor Dr. 

 Eoux, Professor Dr. Grenacher. Heidelberg: 

 Geh. Eat Professor Dr. Fiirbringer, Professor 

 Dr. A. Kossel. Jena: Hofrat Professor Dr. 

 von Bardeleben, Professor Dr. Hackel. Kiel: 

 Professor Dr. Graf F. Spec, Professor Dr. 

 Hensen. Konigsberg: Professor Dr. Stieda, 

 Professor Dr. L. Hermann. Leipzig: Pro- 

 fessor Dr. Babl, Professor Dr. Hering. Mar- 

 burg: Professor Dr. Gasser, Professor Dr. F. 

 Schenk. Miinchen: Professor Dr. Eiickert. 

 Miinster, Professor Dr. Ballowitz. Eostoek: 

 Professor Dr. Barfurth, Professor Dr. Langen- 

 dorff. Strassburg: Professor Dr. Schwalbe, 

 Professor Dr. Hofmeister. Tiibingen: Pro- 

 fessor Dr. Froriep, Professor Dr. Griitzner. 

 Wiirzburg: Professor Dr. Eindfleisch, Pro- 

 fessor Dr. Th. Stohr. 



Austria. — Graz: Professor Dr. HoU, Pro- 

 fessor Dr. Zoth. Innsbruck: Professor Dr. 

 Hochstetter. Prag: Professor Dr. Siegmund 

 Mayer, Professor Dr. J. Gsad. Wien : Hofrat 

 Professor Dr. Eitter von Ebner, Hofrat Pro- 

 fessor Dr. E. Zuckerkandl. 



