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IT is now generally recognised that Schwann was not the first to discover cells in the body of an animal but he is often regarded as the founder of the theory of the conformity in tho elementary structure of plants and animals. In a recent number of tho Anatomischer Anzeiger Prof. F. K. Studnicka shows that Schwann was neither the first to make this suggestion, nor did he really prove it. He has studied the work of all the forerunners of Schwann and has I attempted systematically to interpret the significance of their work.
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Anat. Anzeiger, 1927, and Acta Soc. natur., Brno 1927.
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FLORTAN, J. The Early History of the Cell Theory. Nature 130, 634–635 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130634a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/130634a0