Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Containing papers of a Biological character, Volume 83Royal Society and sold, 1911 - Biology Publishes refereed research papers in all aspects of the biological sciences. As a fast track journal, it specialises in the rapid delivery of the latest research to the scientific community. |
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Page 226 - Brelnl) are especially found in the lungs, spleen, and bone marrow during periods of decrease of trypanosomes in the peripheral blood of the host. They are in process of formation at or near the time when the trypanosomes are most numerous in the peripheral blood. The formation of latent bodies takes place especially in the lungs, and they collect in the spleen and bone marrow of the host. In the formation of nonflagellnte stages, some of the cytoplasm and the flagellum of the trypanosome are disintegrated.
Page 269 - in 1883. A further contribution was made by him in 1889, when his work on " Natural Inheritance " appeared. His subsequent papers and essays on " Eugenics " have still further stimulated enquiry into a subject of such deep interest and transcendent importance in all efforts to improve the physical and mental condition of the human race. It has seemed to the Council fitting that a man who has devoted his life with unwearied enthusiasm to the study and improvement of many departments of natural knowledge,...
Page xiii - ... performance, had he done nothing else. But he was constantly engaged in teaching work, and he acted as examiner in the Universities of London and Edinburgh. With no less conscientiousness he complied with the demands which the scientific world makes on its members; he served on the Councils of the Royal (1895) and Linnean (1887) Societies ; he was President of the Botanical Section of the British Association at Toronto in 1897, and of the Cambridge Philosophical Society in 1904. Beyond all this...