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A FEW days ago representatives of the world's science met in Berlin to do honour to one of the world's veteran men of science. The occasion of Prof. Virchow's eightieth birthday was seized by many learned societies and private individuals to express their appreciation of the great debt owed by mankind to this epoch-making thinker and worker. The Emperor of Germany bestowed upon him the great gold medal, and the King of Italy a picture in whichthe Professor's portrait was accompanied by that of his great Italian forerunner, Morgagni. The idea to frame these two scientific men together, whose work, although separated by two centuries of time, illuminated the same branch of knowledge, was certainly a graceful one.
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T., F. The Virchow Celebration . Nature 64, 601–602 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/064601c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/064601c0