the title "On the Process of Division and Structure of the 

 Ovum in Gastropods. "23 



In 1860 Warnek retired and departed to Tver; where for 

 three years he was director of a secondary school, and then 

 director of the schools of Tver Province. 



Until recently it was thought that Warnek 's scientific 

 and literary activity ended in 1863 and that in 1867 he died. 

 From recent work by T. P. Platovaya 2 ^ it is now known that in 

 1880 and 1881 Warnek read a report to the Moscow Society of 

 Naturalists on the biology of agricultural pests, and in 

 1884 a report on the microscopic structure of the fish ovum 

 and on the morphology and taxonomy of fish. The exact date 

 of his death remains unknown. 



Concerning his retirement from Moscow University evidence 

 has been kept which is probably not completely objective and 

 in any case explains only incompletely the cause of his 

 retirement from teaching and from scientific work. 



In the multi-volume apologetical biography of the 

 reactionary historian Pogodin, its author N. Barsukov25 

 reminisced about I. A. Mitropolsky, who was in 1850 a student 

 in the Faculty of Medicine in Moscow University. According 

 to Mitropolsky, when Warnek was reading zoology and comparative 

 anatomy he was noted for an extremely scornful nature; due to 

 this he was disliked by the students and medical men. One 

 of Warnek 's clashes with the students, Mitropolsky reported, 

 ended in a noisy scandal, in which both students and medical 

 men participated. In order to confirm to the reader the 

 ultimate rightness of the students, Mitropolsky declared that 

 "the students could endure the tricks of the professor only 

 if his lectures gave them anything useful. But they got 

 nothing from them." 



23. Warnek, "Uber den Furchungsprozess und die Struktur des 

 Eies der Gasteropoden," FRORIEP ' S TAGESBERICHT , 

 No. 280 (1851) , pp. 43 - 44. 



24. See (131) . 



25. N. Barsukov, ZHIZN'I TRUDY M. P. POGODINA (Life 

 and Works of M. P. Pogodin), Vol. 16 (1902), pp. 116 - 117 



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