Dohrn, ANTON, zoologist, was born at Stettin in 1840, studied at Königsberg, Bonn, Jena, and Berlin, lectured for a time on Zoology at Jena, and in 1870 founded the great zoological station at Naples. As an embryologist, he has devoted himself mainly to the development of insects and crustaceans; and besides reports, he has published works on the origin of the vertebrates.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 42
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