| Thomas Henry Huxley - 1869 - 30 Seiten
...circulation, which has been put forward by an eminent physiologist, loses much of its startling character. Currents similar to those of the hairs of the nettle...the wonderful noonday silence of a tropical forest in, after all, due only to the dullue.ssjjf_j2jittJieaJi! higj^juid could our ears catch the murmur... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - 1870 - 444 Seiten
...circulation, which has been put forward by an eminent physiologist, loses much of its startling character. Currents similar to those of the hairs of the nettle...to the dulness of our hearing ; and could our ears catch the murmur of these tiny Maelstroms, as they whirl in the innumerable myriads of living cells... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - 1870 - 56 Seiten
...circulation, which has been put forward by an eminent physiologist, loses much of its startling character. Currents similar to those of the hairs of the nettle...of a tropical forest is, after all, due only to the dullness of our hearing; and could our ears catch the murmur of these tiny maelstroms, as they whirl... | |
| 1871 - 308 Seiten
...circulation, which has been put forward by an eminent physiologist, loses much of its startling character. Currents similar to those of the hairs of the nettle..."^vegetable cells. If such be the case, the wonderful inoonday silence of a tropical forest is, after all, due only to the dullness of our hearing ; and... | |
| James Hutchison Stirling - 1872 - 84 Seiten
...whatever, he says, of confining this comparison to the protoplasm of the nettle sting. He says also : " Currents similar to those of the hairs of the nettle...or less perfection in all young vegetable cells." And, immediately thereafter, in a burst of poetry as exuberant as the very vegetation he describes,... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - 1872 - 422 Seiten
...circulation, which has been put forward by an eminent physiologist, loses much of its startling character. Currents similar to those of the hairs of the nettle have been observed in a great multitude of very diiferent plants, and weighty authorities have suggested that they probably occur, in more or less... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - 1874 - 408 Seiten
...physiologist, loses much of its startling character. Currents similar to those of the hairs of thejiejt£le have been observed in a great multitude of very different...to the dulness of our hearing ; and could our ears catch the murmur of these tiny Maelstroms, as they whirl in the innumerable myriads of living cells... | |
| Joseph Parker - 1875 - 438 Seiten
...Huxley desiderated for the ear something equivalent in service to the use of the microscope ; thus : " the wonderful noonday silence of a tropical forest...to the dulness of our hearing ; and could our ears catch the murmurs of these tiny Maelstroms as they whirl in the innumerable myriads of living cells... | |
| Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1869 - 534 Seiten
...circulation, which has been put forward by an eminent physiologist, loses much of its startling character. Currents similar to those of the hairs of the nettle...of a tropical forest is, after all, due only to the dullness of our hearing: ; and could our ears] catch the murmur of these tiny maelstroms, as they whirl... | |
| National cyclopaedia - 1879 - 698 Seiten
...great multitude of very different \ the Amaba a special stimulus, which gives rise to the plants, and they probably occur in more or less perfection in all young vegetable cells. Though it is certain that all these phenomena are in movements necessary for the prehension of nutriment.... | |
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