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DESPITE the disturbed political situation and international tension, Czech men of science and their friends intend, if possible, to celebrate next October the ninetieth birthday of one of Bohemia's most distinguished living sons, Prof. František Vejdovský, who was born on October 24, 1849. After studying at the Charles University of Prague, and already as a young man winning fame as a zoologist, ho was elected professor, of zoology, comparative anatomy and embryology in the Charles University in 1892, retiring as professor emeritus in 1921. During his long life, Vejdovsky has not only been very active as a teacher and leader among Czech zoologists, he has also, by his own researches and those of his numerous pupils, contributed largely to the advancement of many different branches of zoology. His own work covers a very wide field, but it has dealt mainly with the morphology, development and systematics of various Invertebrata, and with cytology—especially spermatogenesis, fertilization and problems connected with the centrosome and the chromosomes. On these and other matters he has published some ten large treatises, and more than a hundred other memoirs in Czech, English, American, French and German periodicals.
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Prof. F. Vejdovsky. Nature 144, 276 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144276a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144276a0