students or supporters is not completely accurate. (21) 

 Below (see Chapters 9 and 11) it will be shown that 

 epigenetic opinions, based on Wolff's theoretical proposi- 

 tions and observations, enjoyed in Russia at the end of 

 the eighteenth century and at the beginning of the nineteenth 

 century sufficiently wide distribution. S. G. Zybelin, 

 D. A. Golitsyn, I. Beseke, M. Kh. Peken, N. M. Maksimovich- 

 Ambodic, A. N. Radishchev, and later on L. Tredern, all 

 stated them. 



Figure 2. Silhouette of Kaspar Friedrich Wolff 

 made by F. Anting (1784); the only 

 existing picture of Wolff 



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