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THE hundredth anniversary of the discovery of the cell by Th. Schwann is being commemorated this year in many countries. There seems, however, to be a mistake about the date of this great discovery. Schwann's “Mikroskopische Untersuchungen” bears the date 1839; but the first two—and I think the most important—parts of the book had already appeared in 1838. The edition must have been very small, for I have seen only one copy of them during the last twenty years. Schwann placed the 1838 edition before the Paris Academy of Sciences. At all events we are, I think, late in our commemoration.
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JUNK, W. Commemoration of the Cell Theory. Nature 143, 727 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143727a0
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