Report of the Annual MeetingJ. Murray., 1913 |
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Page 23 - ... of the blood. It is also true for the cells which compose the heart, since this serves to pump oxygenated blood to all other cells of the body : without such blood most cells soon cease to live. Hence we examine respiration and heart to determine if life is present : when one or both of these are at a standstill we know that life cannot be maintained. These are not the only organs necessary for the maintenance of life, but the loss of others can be borne longer, since the functions which they...
Page 35 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Page v - ... give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry, — to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate Science in different parts of the British Empire, with one another and with foreign philosophers, — to obtain a more general attention to the objects of Science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress.
Page lviii - To summon meetings in London or elsewhere for the consideration of matters affecting the Interests of Zoology or Zoologists, and to obtain by correspondence the opinion of Zoologists on matters of a similar kind, with power to raise by subscription from each Zoologist a sum of money for defraying current expenses of the Organisation. Sec.- — Prof.
Page 35 - The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years : few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage...
Page 12 - But though I cannot express this conviction of mine too strongly, I must carefully guard myself against the supposition that I intend to suggest that no such thing as Abiogenesis ever has taken place in the past, or ever will take place in the future.
Page 753 - ... obliged to resort to hypotheses requiring great changes in the relative levels and drainage of valleys, and, in short, the whole physical geography of the respective regions where the caves are situated — changes that would alone imply a remote antiquity for the human fossil remains, and make it probable that man was old enough to have co-existed at least with the Siberian mammoth.
Page 376 - Every road is to be made of broken stone without mixture of earth, clay, chalk, or any other matter that will imbibe water, and be affected with frost ; nothing is to be laid on the clean stone on pretence of binding ; broken stone will combine by its own angles into a smooth solid surface that cannot be affected by vicissitudes of weather, or displaced by the action of wheels...
Page 14 - But the acceptance of such theories of the arrival of life on the earth does not bring us any nearer to a conception of its actual mode of origin ; on the contrary, it merely serves to banish the investigation of the question to some conveniently inaccessible corner of the universe...
Page 16 - It is true that up to the present there is no evidence of such happening : no process of transition has hitherto been observed. But on the other hand, is it not equally true that the kind of evidence which would be of any real value in determining this question has not hitherto been looked for ? We may be certain that if life is being produced from nonliving substance it will be life of a far simpler character than any that has yet been observed — in material which we shall be uncertain whether...