Abstract
IN an introductory chapter Madame Metchnikoff relates how, some years ago, one who scarcely knew her husband had asked permission to write his biography. Metchnikoff wanted his biography written, for he held that the story of the evolution of a mind and character in relation with its environment, if faithfully set down by one knowing and comprehending, is always an interesting psychological document. The idea of the story of his life being related by one who neither knew nor understood was, however, repugnant to him. So it came about that Madame Metchnikoff undertook the biography of her husband with his cooperation and on the understanding that the whole was to be told without reservation. The result, as Sir Ray Lankester observes in an appreciative preface to the English edition, is “a remarkable and beautiful record of the development and activities of a great discoverer.”
Life of Elie Metchnikoff, 1845–1916.
By Olga Metchnikoff. Authorised translation from the French. Pp. xxiii + 297. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1921.) 21s. net.
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Life of Elie Metchnikoff, 1845–1916. Nature 109, 163–166 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109163a0
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