Journal of the New-York Microscopical Society, Volumes 6-7The Society, 1890 - Microscopy |
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1st Rep 3rd Rep 4th Rep Agri alveoli American angulatum Baron after Riley BASHFORD DEAN bioplasm Bull Bulletin Calotermes Catalogue cell Chapuis et Candeze CHARLES collodion Cretaceous crystals d'Orb DEVOE diameter Diatoms F. W. DEVOE Fabr fibrils film Foraminifera formosum fungus genus glass Glover Harris Hist hypha inch Insect J. D. HYATT J. L. ZABRISKIE Journal Larva brief Larva fig larvæ layer Linn Lintner Mass matter MEYROWITZ mica Naturalist NEW-YORK MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY Numerical Aperture Obelia OBJECTS EXHIBITED October oogonium organism ovipositor P. H. DUDLEY Packard paper persons present Pleurosigma Proceedings protoplasm pupa brief pupa figs Rathvon RIEDERER Saprolegnia Saunders Schaupp Science sections shell showing SHULTZ side slides Société species specimens sporangium spores Staining STEPHEN HELM structure surface Termites tracheids Trans U. S. Dept U. S. Ent valve viii Walsh & Riley YORK zoospores
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Page 11 - Beast and fowl, reptile and fish, mollusk, worm, and polype, are all composed of structural units of the same character, namely, masses of protoplasm with a nucleus.
Page 12 - Debemur morti nos nostraque," with a profounder meaning than the Roman poet attached to that melancholy line. Under whatever disguise it takes refuge, whether fungus or oak, worm or man, the living protoplasm not only ultimately dies and is resolved into its mineral and lifeless constituents, but is always dying, and, strange as the paradox may sound, could not live unless it died.
Page 10 - Thus it becomes clear that all living powers are cognate, and that all living forms are fundamentally of one character. The researches of the chemist have revealed a no less striking uniformity of material composition in living matter.
Page 13 - Hence it appears to be a matter of no great moment what animal, or what plant, I lay under contribution for protoplasm, and the fact speaks volumes for the general identity of that substance in all living beings. I share this catholicity of assimilation with other animals, all of which, so far as we know, could thrive equally well on the protoplasm of any of their fellows, or of any plant ; but here the assimilative powers of the animal world cease.
Page 14 - Withdraw any one of these three from the world, and all vital phenomena come to an end. They are as necessary to the protoplasm of the plant, as the protoplasm of the plant is to that of the animal. Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen are all lifeless bodies. Of these...
Page 13 - But these changes, whatever be their extent, have not rendered it incompetent to resume its old functions as matter of life. A singular inward laboratory, which I possess, will dissolve a certain portion of the modified protoplasm ; the solution so formed will pass into my veins ; and the subtle influences to which it will then be subjected will convert the dead protoplasm into living protoplasm, and transubstantiate sheep into man.
Page 11 - And now, what is the ultimate fate, and what the origin, of the matter of life? Is it, as some of the older naturalists supposed, diffused throughout the universe in molecules, which are indestructible and unchangeable in themselves; but, iu endless transmigration, unite in innumerable permutations, into the diversified forms of life we know? Or is the matter of life composed of ordinary matter; differing from it only in the manner in which its atoms are aggregated.
Page 12 - I shall probably have recourse to the substance commonly called mutton, for the purpose of stretching it back to its original size. Now this mutton was once the living protoplasm, more or less modified, of another animal, — a sheep. As I shall eat it, it is the same matter altered not only by death, but by exposure to sundry artificial operations in the process of cooking.
Page iii - ... sometimes direct, sometimes indirect, between one protoplasmic mass and another. This has been shown to be so widely true in the case of the plants hitherto investigated, that the generalization has been ventured on, that all the protoplasm throughout the plant is continuous. The formation of the dividing wall in cell division is now better understood than ever before, and our knowledge of this process lends great probability to the truth of the general statement made. It is not unlikely then...
Page 10 - What community of faculty can there be between the brightly-coloured lichen, which so nearly resembles a mere mineral incrustation of the bare rock on which it grows, and the painter, to whom it is instinct with beauty, or the botanist, whom it feeds with knowledge...