Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
Most of the following essays have appeared in the pages of the _Quarterly Review_, and I am greatly indebted to the editor and to the proprietor of that periodical for permission to reprint them. The article on ‘The Infinite Torment of Flies’ is an address I delivered before t...
Most of the following essays have appeared in the pages of the _Quarterly Review_, and I am greatly indebted to the editor and to the proprietor of that periodical for permissio...
2. Part 2The records of the Dutch and English fisheries are naturally more complete than those of their predecessors. The last Dutch fishery was in 1768, and the first English was in 179...
3. Part 3The important generalizations of Dr. Wallich, who was on board H.M.S. _Bulldog_, which, in 1860, again traversed the Atlantic to survey a route for the cable, largely helped to...
4. Part 4A peculiar organ, known by the name ‘phæodaria,’ exists in the body of certain radiolarians found only in the deep seas. It has been suggested that this structure gives forth li...
5. Part 5But since 1868 much has changed. Beam-trawls continued to be increasingly used down to 1893, since which date they have been replaced, in steam-trawlers, by the more powerful ot...
6. Part 6Let us examine the first-mentioned cause of impoverishment, the destruction of the ‘accumulated stock.’ This formula has been eagerly adopted by some who hesitate to admit the e...
7. Part 7The views and writings of Darwin have influenced in an unexpected way the nature of the work carried on by biological investigators during the past fifty years. To a great exten...
8. Part 82. Four attempts were made to cross the zebra with Shetland ponies: only one succeeded. The hybrid was a smaller edition of Romulus. The dam Nora had been bred from before, and...
9. Part 9There is no doubt that it is a comparatively easy matter to breed these hybrids, and that they are not only extremely attractive animals to the eye, but hardy and vigorous, poss...
10. Part 10The use of the microscope, however, lent a fresh vigour to the believers in spontaneous generation; and, forced to relinquish the mouse and the insect, they still found satisfac...
11. Part 11It needed no small courage on Pasteur’s part to inoculate his fellow-creatures against hydrophobia. In 1885 a boy some nine years old, from Meissengott in Alsace, was brought by...
12. Part 12At this stage the skin to which the red corpuscle has been reduced breaks, and the spores fall into the liquid part of the blood (Fig. 1, 9). The pigment granules which escape a...
13. Part 13It is very doubtful if the male _Anopheles_, which can easily be distinguished from the female by its bushy feathered tentacles, quite visible to the naked eye, ever sucks blood...
14. Part 14In Ismailia the disease has been reduced to an amazing extent, and quite recently remarkable results have followed the use of these preventive measures at Port Swettenham, in th...
15. Part 15The little larva has not been seen emerging from the egg-case, but probably, as in the case of the meat- or blow-fly, _Musca vomitoria_, the eggshell splits longitudinally and t...
16. Part 16The School of Medicine has grown continuously; and its progress is associated with the great names, to mention no others, of Sir George Humphry, Sir George Paget, and Sir Michae...
17. Part 17There are forty-four professors, very few of them receive £800 or more a year (including fellowships), while the lowest limit of a professor’s stipend, unless he holds a fellows...
18. Part 18The other great need is some adequate provision for that priceless national treasure, the University library. Mr. J. W. Clark has himself inaugurated an appeal on its behalf. Th...
19. Part 19Malaria, 129 Æstivo-autumnal, 135, 138, 139 Africa, Children of natives infected with, 152, 162 Amœbula, 136 carried by gnats, 159 Cause of, 134 Death of James I. from, 133 Oliv...