 In 1835, the German botanist Hugo von Mohl, described cell division in the green alga "Cladophora glomerata", stating that multiplication of cells occurs through cell division.In 1838, Matthias Jakob Schleiden affirmed that the formation of new cells "in their interior" was a general law for cell multiplication in plants, a view later rejected in favour of Mohl model, due to contributions of Robert Remak and others.In animal cells, cell division with mitosis was discovered in frog, rabbit, and cat cornea cells in 1873 and described for the first time by the Polish histologist Wacław Mayzel in 1875.