Nikolai Petrovich Wagner
1829–1907
Russian zoologist, entomologist, and writer. Graduated from the University of Kazan, 1854. Professor of zoology, Kazan, 1860; St Petersburg University, 1871. Instrumental in the founding of the Solovki Biological Station (later relocated and renamed Murmansk Marine Biology Institute). Discovered the phenomenon of paedogenesis, or larval reproduction.
Sources
P. Gilbert 1977
GSE
Bibliography
Gilbert, Pamela. 1977. A compendium of the biographical literature on deceased entomologists. London: British Museum (Natural History).
GSE: Great Soviet encyclopedia. Edited by Jean Paradise et al. 31 vols. (Translation of the 3d edition of Bol’shaya Sovetskaya entsiklopediya (Большая советская энциклопедия), edited by A. M. Prokhorov.) New York: Macmillan. London: Collier Macmillan. 1973–83.
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