Year: 1860
Type: book
Abstract: Omnipresence of Life.-TheMicroscope.-AnOpalina and its Wonders.-The Uses of Cilia.-Howour Lungs are protected from Dust and Filings.-Feeding without a Mouth or Stomach.-What is an Organ ?-How a complex Organism arises.-EarlyStages of a Frog and a Philosopher.-Howthe Plants feed.-Parasites of the Frog.-Metamorphoses and Migrations of Parasites.-Lifewithin Life.-The budding of Animals.--Asteady Bore.-Philosophy of the infinitely little .....Page 9 CHAPTER I. Ponds and Rock-pools.-Our necessary Tackle.-WimbledonCommon.-Early Memories.-GnatLarvee.-Entomostraca and their Paradoxes.-Races of Animals dispensing with the sterner Sex.-Insignificance of Males.-Volvox Globator: is it an Animal ?-Plants swimming like Animals.-AnimalRetrogressions.-TheDytiscus and its Larva.-TheDragon-fly Larva.-Mollusks and their Eggs.-Polypes,and how to find them.-A new Polype, Hydra rubra.-Nest-buildingFish.-Contempt replaced by Reverence ......:.cssesecssesnseeseeeee asensaeers OD CHAPTER II.A garden Wall, and its Traces of past Life.-Not« Breath perishes.-ABit of dry Moss and its Inhabitants.-The'' Wheelbearers."-Resuscitation of Rotifers: drowned into Life.-CurrentBelief that Animals can be revived after complete Desiccation.-Experimentscontradicting the Belief.-Spallanzani'sTestimony.-Value of Biology as a Means of Culture.-Classification of Animals: the five great Types.-Criticism of Cuvier's ATTANQEMENE.....+.
Source: Smith, Elder eBooks
Author: George Henry Lewes
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2478043225