Kutorga Stepan Semenovich

(1805 - 1861). Enrolling in Physics and Mathematics of St. Petersburg University, he attracted the attention of outstanding talent and was sent to Dorpat, then abroad to prepare for the professoriate. In 1833, Mr.. he took the chair of zoology at St. Petersburg University, moreover, Kutorga taught mineralogy and geognosy in the main pedagogical institute. Consisted one time censor St. Petersburg Censorship Committee and the Inspector of private educational institutions of St. Petersburg school district. He was a talented popularizer and a brilliant lecturer. Its main works: "Scolopendrae morsitantis anatome" (St. Petersburg, . 1834), "Natural History nalivochnyh animals" (translated into German); "Einige Worte gegen die Theorie der stufenweise Entstehung der Organismen"; "Zur Naturgeschichte der Ploca communis" (1839); "Beitrage zur Geognosie und Palaeontologie Dorpats und seiner Umgebungen (1835 and 1837); "Beitrag zur Kenntniss der organischen Ueberreste des Kupfersandsteines am Westlichen Abhange des Urals" (1838); "Beitrage zur Palaeontologie Russlands" (1842 - 1846); "Ueber die Brachiopodenfamilie der Siphonotretaeae" (1850); " Geogn,
. Beobachtungen im sudl. Finland "(1851); 10 versts geological map of the Petersburg district (1852). Popular works Kutorga issued: "A system Lafater and Gall," "The foot and hand of man", "The General Law of appearance, existence and disappearance of organisms.