On Parthenogenesis; Or, The Successive Production of Procreating Individuals from a Single Ovum: A Discourse Introductory to the Hunterian Lectures on Generation and Development, for the Year 1849, Delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England

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Van Voorst, 1849 - 76 páginas

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Página 4 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Página 4 - And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Página 5 - Not all the progeny of the primary impregnated germcell are required for the formation of the body in all animals : certain of the derivative germ-cells may remain unchanged and become included in that body which has been composed of their metamorphosed and diversely combined or confluent brethren t so included, any derivative germ-cell or the nucleus of such may commence and repeat the same processes...
Página 37 - ... and, what is most remarkable and without parallel, the sexual intercourse of one original pair serves for all the generations which proceed from the female for a whole succeeding year. Reaumur has proved that in five generations one Aphis may be the progenitor of 5,904,900,000 descendants ; and it is supposed that in one year there may be twenty...
Página 29 - One conjunction of the sexes suffices for the impregnation of all the females that in a succession of generations spring from that union." In support of the reasonableness of this hypothesis, they quote several instances which they regard as of analogous character ; thus, they say in regard to the hive-bee, that " a single intercourse with the male fertilizes all the eggs that are laid for the space of two years.
Página 49 - Goodsir has shown that in the lobster, so noted for the power of reproducing its claws, the regenerative faculty does not reside at any part of the claw indifferently, but in a special locality at the basal end of the first joint. This joint is almost filled by a mass of nucleated cells surrounded by a fibrous and muscular band.
Página 34 - Alternation of Generations^ is the remarkable phenomenon of an animal producing an offspring which at no time resembles its parent, but which, on the other hand, itself brings forth a progeny which returns in its form and nature to the parent...
Página 61 - The wingless larval aphides are not very locomotive ; they might have been attached to one another by continuity of integument, and each have been fixed to suck the juices from the part of the plant where it was brought forth. The stem of the rose might have been incrusted with a chain of such connected larvae as we see the stem of a fucus incrusted with a chain of connected polypes, and only the last developed winged males and oviparous females might have been set free. The connecting medium might...
Página 3 - Perhaps the best argument from reason for a future state and the continued existence of our thinking part, is afforded by the fact of our being able to conceive, and consequently yearning to possess, some higher knowledge. The ablest...
Página 25 - ... germ-mass in contact with the primary integument is transformed into a new integument. These germ-cells have increased and propagated at the expense of the aliment assimilated by the alimentary canal. The formation of the new integument and of the new feet proceeds connectedly and contemporaneously : but the new parts are not moulded upon the inner surface of the old ones. The plastic force has changed its course of operation. A hinder segment of the body is added to the front one which answers...

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