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ON Sunday, June 23 last, a very interesting ceremony took place at the University of Liége, in Belgium, in honour of Schwann, the famous author (with his fellow-worker Schleiden) of the so-called “cell theory.” So rapid has been of late years the progress in our knowledge of the minute structure of animals and plants that Schwann's name seems already to belong to the distant past, and not a few biologists appear to have been, up to the last few months, under the impression that the distinguished author of the “Microscopical Investigations into the Identity in Structure and Growth of Animals and Plants” had long ago been laid in the grave. We rejoice to say that, on the contrary, he is alive and to outward appearance hale and vigorous, though he has had some warnings which have led his confrères at Liége to celebrate this year, as a sort of premature jubilee, the fortieth anniversary of his professoriate rather than wait till the full tale of fifty years had been told.
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THEODORE SCHWANN . Nature 18, 297–298 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/018297a0
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