[8] All this episode was described by Metchnikoff in 1866 in a separate publication with great restraint and in a very moderate tone.
[9] In later years Metchnikoff often dwelt on the fact that Fritz Müller was not fully appreciated and that it was he who had most efficaciously contributed to the confirmation of Darwinian theories.
[10] A degree preceding that of Doc.Sc.
[11] The latter affirmed that the nervous system of Ascidia originated from the upper layer, whilst Elie believed that it was the lower layer which gave birth to it. It was Kovalevsky who was right, as Elie himself declared later.
[12] He ultimately developed these considerations in a paper entitled Education from an Anthropological Point of View, of which mention will be made hereafter.
[13] Rural administration.
[14] “Elie” is the French form of Elijah, in Russian Ilia, and was ultimately adopted by Metchnikoff.
[15] Migration of the white blood corpuscles (leucocytes) through the walls of blood-vessels.
[16] Arbeiten des zool. Inst. zu Wien, Bd. v. Heft ii. p. 141. “Untersuchung über die intracelluläre Verdauung bei wirbellosen Tieren,” E. Metchnikoff.
[17] It was only in 1892 that he completed and developed his observations. He found that the cells of the sarcoplasma of the muscular tissue devoured its contractile part, the myoplasma.