xvi LIFE OF ELIE METCHNIKOFF 

 CHAPTEE VII 



1856-1861. The Kharkoff Lycte— Bogomoloff and Socialism 

 •^Atheism — Natural History studies — Private lodgings 

 — Private lesaons in histology from Professor Tsohelkoff — A 

 borrowed microscope — First article — Italian opera — The 

 gold medal ...... 



CHAPTER VIII 



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 I 



An early love — A schoolfellow's sister — A pretty sistep-in-law . 35 



CHAPTEE IX 



1862. Journey to Germany — Leipzig, Wilrzburg — A hasty return 37 



CHAPTEE X 



1863. Kharkoff University — Physiology — The VorticeUa — 

 Controversy with Klihne — The Origin of Species — Gastero- 

 tricha — University degree . . . .40 



CHAPTEE XI 



1864-1866. Heligoland — Giessen Congress — Leuckart — ^Visit 

 to Leo Metohnikoff at Geneva — Socialist gatherings — 

 MetchnikofPs discovery appropriated by Leuckart — Naples 

 — Kovalevsky — Comparative embryology — Embryonic 

 layers — Bakounine and Setch^noff — Cholera at Naples — 

 Gijttingen — Anatomical studies — Munich ; von Sieboldt-.- 

 Music — Return to Naples — Intracellular digestion . 43 \ 



CHAPTEE XII 



1867-1868. Petersburg — Baer Prize — Return home — Friend- 

 ship with Cienkovsky — Odessa — Naturalists' Congress at 

 Petersburg — Departure from Odessa — Zoological Lecturer's 

 Chair at Petersburg — Messina — Enforced rest — Eeggio — 

 Naples — Controversy with Kovalevsky — Visit to the 

 B. family — Mile. Fddorovitch — Educational questions — 

 Difficulties of life in Petersburg . . . .58 



