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THE following short preface to a very valuable account of the stages of development from the egg of one of the centipedes (Geophilus), no member of which group had been studied previously to this account, gives so convincing a picture of the enthusiasm for investigation which may animate the modern naturalist, that it is worthy of a place in NATURE for the encouragement of the “craft.” Elias Metschnik off has during the past fifteen years worked more assiduously with the microscope at the observation of the minute details of embryology than any other student. To him we are indebted for our first accurate knowledge of this subject in the case of many important animal forms, e.g., sponges, various jelly-fishes, marine worms, the scorpion, and the book-scorpions, various insects, crustaceans, starfishes, and ascidians. One result has been the injury of his eyesight. In reading to-day his memoir on Geophilus, published in 1875 (Zeitschr. für wiss. Zoologie), it occurred to me that the following passage has more than technical interest:—
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LANKESTER, E. Research Under Difficulties . Nature 19, 342–343 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/019342b0
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