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**Table 1 - Some Important Events IN THE History or Embryology up To 1900**
	Embryology in the classic period
4th century B.C.	Aristotle
	Embryology in the Renaissance period
	(Before the general use of the microscope)
1651	Harvey	Epigenesis
	(After the general use of the microscope)
1672	Malpighi	Preformation
1768	Wolff	Epigenesis
	Embryology in modern times
1839	von Baer	Comparative embryology
1839	(Schleiden and Schwann announced cell theory)
1859	(Darwin announced theory of natural selection)
1866	Haeckel	Biogenetic law
1866	(Mendel announced laws of inheritance)
	(Microscopic technique being developed)
1874	His	Experimental embryology
1878	Whitman	Cell lineage
1883	Roux	Mechanics of development
1891	Weismann	Theory of the germplasm
1899	Loeb	Artificial parthenogenesis
1900	(Rediscovery of Mendel’s laws)