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MULLER, Iv.%:x VON ( A Cernian classical philologist. Ile Was born at misi(del. in 13a varia ; was !professor in the University of Erlangen and from 1s93 professor in the University of Alimich. published works are numerous: lie is best known as general editor of the u0Inprehensi ye 11am/birch ?1( r klassischra .I lit rtunisirissenschaft (Munich, Is 5), and also as the editor of many of the works of t?alen, and as reviser of Ni,igels bach's Lateinische Stilistik Iss8).

IVIttLLER, Jon N N FRIEDRICH THEODOR (known as 1' 1{1T% AlCii.Far-DEsTiAtito 1s21 -9; I. A ti:erman naturalist. known for his contrilmtions to !Mmmies awl to the evolution theory. Ile was born at near Erfurt. Ile studied at Ilreilswald and Ber lin. The troubles of 1S48 finally drove hint from home and Rerlin. and he emigrated to Southern Brazil,. settling at lilmilenan, on the island of Santa Cat harina. Here he lived the life of a colonist and pioneer until I853..vhen he became a teacher of mathematics and natural history in the gymnasium at Desterro. After various changes he was in 1874 appointed mtur•a1LsIo rittiatitc of the nmsetun at Rio Janeiro, and lived at Itajally. Afterwards his was suddenly dis

from his posit ion. without ant' explanation from the authorities, and returned to 111umenait.

.11filler published numerous papers on jelly fish 4'S and worms, but noire particularly on crus taceans and inseets, his art appearing mostly in .trehir flit' Natargeschiehic„ Kos /116, a hir, and the nnals of the 1:io Janeiro Nis single hook, Facts for ltaririn, was vaned out by Darwin'. Oriyin of and it gave him wide fame. It was written at Desterro in 1803, was published at Leipzig ill 1504. and was translated, with some additions, into English in London in 1809, It 'was the applieal ion of Darwinian to certain of a single class. the crust:leen. In this hook we have, in the (-Milder on the "Progress of the first clear statement of the bi..genetie la W or Even pi II lati011 IIICOry after wards re,tated by Ilacckel. Altiller also pro posed the theory of mimicry which hears his name. See Al Al WRY.