Dodel-Port

(Prof. Arnold), Swi scientist, b. Affeltrangen, Thurgau, 16 Oct. 1843. Educated at Kreuzlingen, he became in ’63 teacher in the Oberschule in Hauptweil; then studied from ’64–’69 at Geneva, Zürich, and Munich, becoming privat docent in the University of Zürich, ’70. In ’75 he published The New History of Creation . In ’78 he i ued his world-famous Botanical Atlas , and was in ’80 made Profe or of Botany in the Zürich University and Director of the Botanical Laboratory. He has also written Biological Fragments (1885), the Life and Letters of Konrad Deubler , “the peasant philosopher” (1886), and has just published Moses or Darwin? a School Question , 1889. Dr. Dodel-Port is an hon. member of the London Royal Society and Vice-President of the German Freethinkers’ Union.