Category: Science - Biology
It is the misfortune of those who study that branch of science which our President has done so much to advance—I mean the science of living things—that they are not able, in the midst of a vast assembly,[1] to render visible to all eyes the actual phenomena to which their inqu...
It is the misfortune of those who study that branch of science which our President has done so much to advance—I mean the science of living things—that they are not able, in the...
2. Part 2A classification according to structure goes then a long way towards mapping out the main lines of the family-tree of organisms. We are further assisted in the task by the fossi...
3. Part 3It is clear then that the Ascidians must be admitted to be Vertebrates, and must be classified in that great sub-kingdom or branch of the animal pedigree. The Ascidian tadpole i...
4. Part 4No one ventures to deny, at the present day, that every human being grows from the egg _in utero_, just as a dog or a monkey does; the facts are before us and can be scrutinised...