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the university for one hundred and thirty-five years) ; 

 1 lawyer (Michel Alberti who contributed nearly 300 

 separate works on several phases of human knowledge) ; 

 1 bibliographer (Mangetus, " Bibliotheca Anatomica"), 

 1 clergjTnan (Wm. Buckland), 2 monks (of whom one 

 was Gregor Mendel and the other Michael Servetus, a 

 Spanish monk, the discoverer of the pulmonary circu- 

 lation, which he published in 1553, seventy-five years 

 before the appearance of Harvey's great work on the 

 motion of the heart and the circulation of the blood) ; 

 3 physicists (Helmholtz and others), 5 poets (Mark 

 Akenside, who wrote his inaugural dissertation on the 

 fetus; Groethe, who is widely known for his papers in 

 comparative anatomy, and for his homology of the inter- 

 maxillary bone of men and mammals; Lucius Francois 

 Anderlini, a surgeon of Saint- Angelo, in the duchy of 

 Urbino. who published in 1739 a poetical work "The 

 Anatomist in Parnassus, or a Compendium of the Parts 

 of the Human Body arranged in Verse"; Scipion Abeille, 

 a military surgeon in Flanders who wrote, in 1689, a 

 poetical anatomy on the parts of the head and neck ; Al- 

 brecht von Haller was a poet of note, and many other men, 

 interested in anatomical subjects, have been poetically in- 

 clined), 8 artists (Albrecht Diirer is well known for a 

 work on human i^roix.rtion^ which is of value from an 

 anthropological slniidtioint ; Michelangelo, working with 

 Eealdo Colombo (14*14 1. "),■)<)), became deeply versed in 

 human anatomy; Leonardo da Vinci, about 1510, com- 

 pleted a wonderful series of anatomical sketches, based 

 on his own dissections) ; 5 ophthalmologists, 5 anthropolo- 

 gists (Blumenbach (1752-1840) was the founder of this 

 science) ; 5 comparative anatomists, 6 embryologists, 7 

 pathologists, 9 histologists, 8 botanists, 14 paleontolo- 

 gists, 17 philosophers (Aristotle, Descartes, Swedenborg, 

 etc.), 24 physiologists, 52 zoologists, 69 surgeons, 175 

 physicians, and 255 professional anatomists who devoted 

 most of their attention to the teaching of anatomy. 



It has not been possible to determine accurately the 



