| Biology - 1868 - 760 pages
...apparently homogenous "jelly changing itself into a greater variety of forms than the fabled " Proteus, laying hold of its food without members, swallowing...feeling (if it has " any power to do so) without nerves, propagating itself without genital " apparatus, and not only this, but in many instances forming shelly... | |
| Charles Robert Bree - Biology - 1868 - 154 pages
...apparently homogeneous jelly, changing itself into a greater variety of form than the fabled Proteus, laying hold of its food without members, swallowing...place without muscles, feeling — if it has any power of doing so — without nerves, and not only this, but in many instances forming shelly coverings of... | |
| Geology - 1868 - 530 pages
...fabled Proteus, — laying hold of its food without members, swallowing without a mouth, digesting without a stomach, appropriating its nutritious material without absorbent vessels or a circulatory system, moving from place to place without muscles, feeling (if it lias any power to do... | |
| Mary Somerville - Matter - 1869 - 396 pages
...mass of semi-fluid jelly, 'changing itself into a greater variety of forms than the fabled Proteus, laying hold of its food without members, swallowing...instances forming shelly coverings of a symmetry and complexity not surpassed by those of any testaceous animal.' Such is the description given by Dr. Carpenter... | |
| Mary Somerville - Matter - 1869 - 356 pages
...laying hold of its food without members, swallowing . ' From rhiion, a root, amlpous, podos, a foot. it without a mouth, digesting it without a stomach,...instances forming shelly coverings of a symmetry and complexity not surpassed by those of any testaceous animal.' Such is the description given by Dr. Carpenter... | |
| Royal Microscopical Society (Great Britain) - Microscopes - 1869 - 456 pages
...particle of homogeneous jelly arranging itself into a greater variety of forms than the fabled Proteus, laying hold of its food without members, swallowing...feeling (if it has any power to do so) without nerves, propagating itself without genital apparatus, and not only this, but in many instances forming shelly... | |
| Sabine Baring-Gould - Christianity - 1870 - 484 pages
...mouth, digesting it without a stomach, appropriating its nutritious material without absorbent vessels, feeling (if it has any power to do so) without nerves, multiplying itself without eggs." ' A polype may be sliced into fifty pieces, and each portion will become a different animal ; a fragment... | |
| Sabine Baring-Gould - Christianity - 1870 - 430 pages
...greater variety of • form than the fabled Proteus, laying hold of its food without members, swallowing without a mouth, digesting it without a stomach, appropriating...its nutritious material without absorbent vessels, feeling (if it has any power to do so) without nerves, multiplying itself without eggs." ' A polype... | |
| Sabine Baring-Gould - Christianity - 1871 - 450 pages
...mouth, digesting it without a stomach, appropriating its nutritious material without absorbent vessels, feeling (if it has any power to do so) without nerves, multiplying itself without eggs."1 A polype may be sliced into fifty pieces, and each portion will become a different animal ;... | |
| William Robert Grove - Dynamics - 1872 - 640 pages
...apparently homogeneous jelly changing itself into a greater variety of forms than the fabled Proteus, laying hold of its food without members, swallowing...muscles, feeling (if it has any power to do so) without nervesj propagating itself without genital apparatus, and and Animals, especially the Fungi and Enlazoa... | |
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