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NEHEMIAH GREW AND HIS ‘ANATOMY.’ 
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course of his paper demonstrated the injustice of the ‘‘ attempts 
that have been made to depreciate the work of Grew, and to rob 
him of the credit that belongs to him as an original investigator.” 
Having set forth in detail the separate works of Grew, Mr. Car- 
ruthers proceeds as follows :—] 
Scatemen promulgated these charges in his Grundziige, 1845. 
They are thus expressed by Lankester in his translation of Schlei- 
den’s work published in London, 1849, under the title of Principles 
of Scientific Botany (pp. 87, 88) :— 
“Marcello Malpighi, professor at Bologna, gave a more accurate 
account of the structure of plants {than Hooke]. He sent to the 
Royal Society of London his great work, Anatome Plantarum, in 
the year 1670, which was published in two volumes, folio, at the 
expense of the Society, in 1675 and 1679. This work claims for 
him the title of the creator of scientific botany. He is so accurate, 
posed of fibres; he also, by comparing the cells of plants to the 
froth of beer, would appear to have thought that they were mere 
cavities in a homogeneous substance, a view which was afterwards 
supported by C. Fr. Wolff.” 
The assertions of Schleiden are based upon dates, but they are 
erroneous dates. Malpighi’s preliminary discourse, which occupies 
the a fifteen pages of his Anatome, has inscribed on the last page, 
and roots of plants. G h th " : 
Completed observations on germination were published in 1672, 
