Biologist William Keith Brooks studied embryological development in invertebrates and used his results as evidence for theories of evolution and

As the third director of the

Anatomical models have always been a mainstay of descriptive embryology. As the training of embryologists grew in the late 1800s, so too did the need for large-scale teaching models. Embryo wax models, such as those made by Adolf Ziegler and

Making Visible Embryos (http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/visibleembryos) is a 2008 online exhibition of embryos authored and designed by Tatjana Buklijaz and

The

Washington University in St. Louis served as the backdrop for many scientific discoveries, including that of

As one of the first to work at the

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) was founded in 1888 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Woods Hole was already the site for the government’s US Fish Commission Laboratory directed by

The Carnegie Institution of Washington’s (CIW) Embryology Department was opened in 1914 and remains one of six departments in the CIW. The department quickly became, and remains, world renown for its many embryonic development discoveries. In 1913

Florence Rena Sabin had successful careers as both a researcher and public health reformer. When