Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part One 1800–1846 Naturals and Naturalists
- Part Two 1846–1876 Warriors
- Part Two Introduction
- “On the Fossil Horses of America,” Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1847)
- “A Flora and Fauna Within Living Animals” (excerpt), Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge (1853)
- “Examination of the Radiations of Red-Hot Bodies. The Production of Light by Heat” (excerpt), American Journal of Science and Arts (1847)
- “Section IX: Range of the Geographical Distribution of Animals,” Essay on Classification (1857)
- “On the Origin of Species” (excerpt), American Journal of Science (1860)
- “Darwin on the Origin of Species,” Atlantic Monthly (1860)
- “Sequoia and Its History” (excerpt), American Naturalist (1872)
- “On the Origin of the Geographical Distribution of Crustacea” (excerpt), Annals and Magazine of Natural History (1856)
- “On Cephalization” (excerpt), New Englander (1863)
- “On some Results of the Earth's Contraction from cooling, including a discussion of the Origin of Mountains, and the nature of the Earth's Interior” (excerpt), American Journal of Science (1873)
- “On Comets and Meteors,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (1869)
- “Linear Associative Algebra,” A Memoir read before the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, 1870 (excerpt), American Journal of Mathematics (1881)
- “The Laws of Organic Development” (excerpt), American Naturalist (1871)
- “Fossil Horses in America,” American Naturalist (1874)
- “Odontornithes, or Birds with Teeth,” American Naturalist (1875)
- “The Genesis of Species” (excerpt), North American Review (1871)
- Part Three 1876–1900 Scientists
- Bibliography
“A Flora and Fauna Within Living Animals” (excerpt), Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge (1853)
from Part Two - 1846–1876 Warriors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part One 1800–1846 Naturals and Naturalists
- Part Two 1846–1876 Warriors
- Part Two Introduction
- “On the Fossil Horses of America,” Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1847)
- “A Flora and Fauna Within Living Animals” (excerpt), Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge (1853)
- “Examination of the Radiations of Red-Hot Bodies. The Production of Light by Heat” (excerpt), American Journal of Science and Arts (1847)
- “Section IX: Range of the Geographical Distribution of Animals,” Essay on Classification (1857)
- “On the Origin of Species” (excerpt), American Journal of Science (1860)
- “Darwin on the Origin of Species,” Atlantic Monthly (1860)
- “Sequoia and Its History” (excerpt), American Naturalist (1872)
- “On the Origin of the Geographical Distribution of Crustacea” (excerpt), Annals and Magazine of Natural History (1856)
- “On Cephalization” (excerpt), New Englander (1863)
- “On some Results of the Earth's Contraction from cooling, including a discussion of the Origin of Mountains, and the nature of the Earth's Interior” (excerpt), American Journal of Science (1873)
- “On Comets and Meteors,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (1869)
- “Linear Associative Algebra,” A Memoir read before the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, 1870 (excerpt), American Journal of Mathematics (1881)
- “The Laws of Organic Development” (excerpt), American Naturalist (1871)
- “Fossil Horses in America,” American Naturalist (1874)
- “Odontornithes, or Birds with Teeth,” American Naturalist (1875)
- “The Genesis of Species” (excerpt), North American Review (1871)
- Part Three 1876–1900 Scientists
- Bibliography
Summary
The recent excellent works by Dujardin,1 Diesing,2 and Robin,3 upon animals and vegetable parasites of living animals, render another systematic record of the labors in this field almost superfluous; and the object of the present memoir is simply to give the result of a series of observations, commenced several years ago, upon associated entozoan and entophyta, constituting a flora and fauna within animals.
The existence of entozoan, or of animals living within other species has, from the most remote times, attracted attention, on account of the peculiarity of their position, the unpleasant ideas associated with them, the sufferings they frequently induce, and the difficulty of explaining their mode or origin.
The entozoan have always constituted the strongest support of the doctrine of equivocal or spontaneous generation, one which has found distinguished disciples even to the present time; but since the days when barnacles were supposed to originate from the foam of the ocean, and ducks and geese to be developed from barnacles, this belief has been so weakened by the accumulation of facts, undenied and undeniable by the supporters of the doctrine, that it bids fair soon to be little more than an echo of the past.
The entozoan have always constituted the strongest support of the doctrine of equivocal or spontaneous generation, one which has found distinguished disciples even to the present time; but since the days when barnacles were supposed to originate from the foam of the ocean, and ducks and geese to be developed from barnacles, this belief has been so weakened by the accumulation of facts, undenied and undeniable by the supporters of the doctrine, that it bids fair soon to be little more than an echo of the past.
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- An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century American Science Writing , pp. 98 - 108Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2012
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