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ON the 6th of last month died in Josseron (Department l'Ain) Charles Robin, sixty-four years old. He was one of the few men in Europe who may be justly considered the founders of modern histology. Although some of his views, as, for instance, on the formation of cells out of a blastema, are now only of historical interest, there remain a considerable number of valuable facts which he has contributed to histology, anatomy, and zoology. A chair of General Anatomy was created for him in 1862 in the Paris Faculty of Medicine, and here he always collected round him a number of ardent students who, under his direction and imbued with his ideas, did excellent work in histology. He was, in fact, until a few years back (until Ranvier) the only exponent of and original worker in histology in France. There is hardly a chapter in this science to which he has not largely contributed. His chief works are “The Natural History of Vegetable Parasites in Man and Animals”; “On the Tissues and Secretions”; and his many articles in the “Dictionnaire Encyclopédique des Sciences Médicales.”
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Charles Robin . Nature 33, 9 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/033009b0
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