The Life and Letters of George John Romanes ...Longmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 391 pages |
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... tissue of the Medusa with that of nervous tissues in general : therefore , he next proceeded to test whether it was also capable of responding to external stimu- lation by light , heat , electricity , & c . 6 As regards appreciation of ...
... tissue of the Medusa with that of nervous tissues in general : therefore , he next proceeded to test whether it was also capable of responding to external stimu- lation by light , heat , electricity , & c . 6 As regards appreciation of ...
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... tissues of other animals . He next experimentally investi- gated in the jelly - fish the paths along which the nervous ... tissue when it first appears in the scene of life has the same fundamental properties as it has in higher animals ...
... tissues of other animals . He next experimentally investi- gated in the jelly - fish the paths along which the nervous ... tissue when it first appears in the scene of life has the same fundamental properties as it has in higher animals ...
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... tissues of the organism . 4. That the development of a new organism out of the fusion of two such packets of gemmules is due to a summation of all the developments of some of the gemmules which these two packets contain . 5. That a ...
... tissues of the organism . 4. That the development of a new organism out of the fusion of two such packets of gemmules is due to a summation of all the developments of some of the gemmules which these two packets contain . 5. That a ...
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... tissue to such sections being variable in different cases , but never being anything remarkable . So far , then , the matter seems favourable to the nerve - plexus theory . In another disc - shaped species of naked - eyed Medusa with a ...
... tissue to such sections being variable in different cases , but never being anything remarkable . So far , then , the matter seems favourable to the nerve - plexus theory . In another disc - shaped species of naked - eyed Medusa with a ...
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... tissue that conducts impressions from the ganglionic tissue to the muscular , making the latter go into a spasm ? A spasm is as different as possible from an ordinary contraction , and will continue to pass long after the ordinary ...
... tissue that conducts impressions from the ganglionic tissue to the muscular , making the latter go into a spasm ? A spasm is as different as possible from an ordinary contraction , and will continue to pass long after the ordinary ...
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