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All living things are made up of cells.

Bibliography

Robert Brown:
Observations on the organs and mode of fecundation in Orchideae and Asclepiadeae.
Transactions of the Linnean Society, 1829-1832, 16: 685-746.
Discovery, in 1831, of the cell nucleus.

M. J. Schleiden:
Einige Blicke auf die Entwicklungsgeschichte des vegetabilischen Organismus bei den Phanerogamen. Wiegmann’s Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 1837.

M. Schleiden:
Beiträge zur Phytogenesis.
[Müller’s] Archiv für Anatomie, Physiologie und wissenschaftliche Medicin, 1838, 137-176.
French translation in Annales des sciences naturelles. Botanique, 1839, 11: 242-252, 362-370.
English in Scientific memoirs, 1841, 2: 281-312.

T. Schwann:
Mikroskopische Untersuchungen über die Übereinstimmung in der Struktur und dem Wachstum der Thiere und Pflanzen. Berlin, Sander, 1839
[Microscopic Investigations on the Accordance in the Structure and Growth of Plants and Animals]
"All living things are composed of cells and cell products that are reproduced".

Theodor Schwann and Mathias Schleiden:
Microscopical researches into the accordance in the structure and growth of animals and plants. London: Printed for the Sydenham Society, 1847.

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