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...could sit down ber fore his hi-fi set and work through the whole literature of LP-recorded sound (as far as generally available in the U.S.) in roughly 3½ years. To keep him up to date, he would want a 204-page catalog published monthly by William Schwann of Boston. In the ten years since LPs started flooding the market, the Schwann Long Playing Record Catalog has become a fascinating indication of music consumption in the vinyl era. Last week, as his 100th catalog was being mailed out to 4,000 record shops...
...Cell Theory (that cells are the basic units of living matter) is commonly supposed to have been formulated first by the German Theodor Schwann in 1839. Actually it had been advanced nearly 200 years earlier, by British Botanist Robert Hooke, and many others preceded Schwann...
...wants less than to spoil the celebration. But as a scholar and scientist he is an uncompromising iconoclast. So he thinks it only fair to make the point that the cell theory was set afoot not in 1839 but during the previous 170 years, not by Herren Schleiden and Schwann but by a number of men almost nobody knows...
...Thereafter numbers of other scientists saw and studied cells.** For a long time the mysterious little chambers of life were called by various names, such as "vesicles," "utricles" and "globules." Then Hooke's original name, "cell," came back into use, and stuck. By the time Schleiden and Schwann appeared on the scene, cells had been identified as independent units, one-celled plants had been discovered, the nucleus (G.H.Q. of a cell's organization) had been found, and the cell's method of reproduction (by division) ascertained...
Biologist Conklin remarks that Schleiden's theory of cell development was cockeyed in major respects, and he had an unpleasantly cavalier way of dealing with contemporaries and predecessors, some of whom were right where he was wrong. Schwann took over some of Schleiden's views and from error compounded further error...