Biological Lectures Delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory of Wood's Holl [sic].Ginn & Company, 1896 |
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Page 21 - In the case of a pathogenic organism we may imagine that, when captured in this way, it may share a like fate if the captor is not paralyzed by some potent poison evolved by it, or overwhelmed by its superior vigor and rapid multiplication. In the latter event the active career of our conservative white corpuscles would be quickly terminated and its protoplasm would serve as food for the enemy.
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Page 41 - With delicate irony he spoke of the "comforting word, evolution" and passing to the Weismannian controversy implied that the diametrically opposed views so frequently expressed nowadays threw the whole process of evolution into doubt. It was only too evident that the Marquis himself found no comfort in evolution and even entertained a suspicion as to its probability. It was well worth the whole journey to Oxford to watch Huxley during this portion of the address. In his red doctor-of-laws gown, placed...
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Page 107 - Ill, 1870, p. 615. organs of vision, produce hardly any thermal or actinic effect. In other words, very little of the energy expended in the flash of the fire-fly is wasted. It is quite different with our artificial methods of illumination.
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