Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-184) and index
The early microscopists -- Globules, fibres and twisted cylinders -- The case for France -- Passionate disputes among botanists -- The views of some standard German textbooks -- Little animals -- Dumortier and Mohl -- The discovery of the cell nucleus -- The cradle of histology -- Müller, Schleiden and Schwann -- The reaction to Schwann -- From fertilized egg to embryo -- Remak and Virchow -- Division of the cell nucleus -- The indispensability of the cell membrane -- Chromosomes -- The cellular determinants of heredity
Presented by Charles E. Rosenberg, April 2018
The early microscopists -- Globules, fibres and twisted cylinders -- The case for France -- Passionate disputes among botanists -- The views of some standard German textbooks -- Little animals -- Dumortier and Mohl -- The discovery of the cell nucleus -- The cradle of histology -- Muller, Schleiden and Schwann -- The reaction to Schwann -- From fertilized egg to embryo -- Remak and Virchow -- Division of the cell nucleus -- The indispensability of the cell membrane -- Chromosomes -- The cellular determinants of heredity