The Crayfish: An Introduction to the Study of Zoology

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K. Paul, 1896 - 371 páginas
 

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Página vi - Whoever will follow these pages, crayfish in hand, and will try to verify for himself the statements which they contain, will find himself brought face to face with all the great zoological questions which excite so lively an interest at the present day.
Página 89 - ... proved that consciousness is wholly unnecessary to the carrying out of many of those combined movements, by which the body is adjusted to varying external conditions.
Página 85 - However changeful in the contour of its crest, this wave has been visible, approximately in the same place and with the same general form, for centuries past. Seen from a mile off, it would appear to be a stationary hillock of water. Viewed closely, it is a typical expression of the conflicting impulses generated by a swift rush of material particles. " Now, with all our appliances, we cannot get within a good many miles, so to speak, of the living organism.

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