although Pander does not want that. So look: In all 

 the sciences of nature there is no point more important 

 than the formation of the organism from the original 

 mass; that should hold the key for all physiology and 

 biology. For the lower organisms this formation can be 

 investigated at the emergence of the pouring in animals 

 and water-plants. For the higher animals, only the 

 history of the incubated eggs is available. Although it 

 has been frequently investigated, this has been done 

 partially because of previous ideas, especially the 

 crazy theory of evolution? 9 and partially because 

 attention was directed only towards the development of 

 individual parts, for example in Wolff's work. No 

 engravings have appeared since Malpighi in the seven- 

 teenth century, and now Pander has decided to investigate 

 the history of development of the incubated egg and give 

 this work with engravings, perhaps as a dissertation, or 

 as an independent work. In order to get enough eggs, 

 two machines were prepared in which, following 

 Dollinger's recommendations, the eggs are incubated by 

 artificial heating. Paying for a specialist graphic 

 artist and engraver, Pander, by means of these egg shells, 

 stands on the path toward adorning his brow with a laurel 

 wreath. I am proud to be the main stimulus to this 

 action. Be quiet, however, until everything is finished. 



Pander worked extremely intensively, and within a year 

 he published his work in Latin, without illustrations, as 

 "Dissertation on the History of the Development of the 

 Incubated Egg throughout the First Five Days. Author 

 Chr. Pander, a Russian from Riga. "10 a German version soon 

 followed, organized along a somewhat different plan and with 

 numerous excellent illustrations, entitled "History of the 

 Development of the Chicken in the Egg."H In the preface to 



9 . It must be remembered that at the beginning of the nine- 

 teenth century, the term evolution was used to mean the 

 development of performed materials (see Chapter 2) . 



10. Pander, DISSERTATIO INAUGURALIS SISTENS HISTORIAM 

 METAMORPHOSEUS, QUAM OVUM INCUBATUM PRIORIBUS 

 QUINQUE DIEBUS SUBIT (Wiirzburg, 1817), 69 pp. 



11. Pander, BEITRAGE ZUR ENTWICKLUNGSGESCHICHTE DES 

 HUHNCHENS IM EIE (Wurzburg, 1817), 42 pp. 



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