... breaks off in, the skin. The whole hair consists of a very delicate outer case of wood, closely applied to the inner surface of which is a layer of semifluid matter, full of innumerable granules of extreme minuteness. This semi-fluid lining is protoplasm,... The national encyclopædia. Libr. ed - Page 210by National cyclopaedia - 1884Full view - About this book
| 1869 - 350 pages
...layer of semifluid matter, full of innumerable granules, of extreme minuteness. This semi-fluid lining is protoplasm, which thus constitutes a kind of bag,...magnifying power, the protoplasmic layer of the nettle is seen to be in a condition of unceasing activity. Local contractions of the whole thickness of its... | |
| Theology - 1870 - 892 pages
...fnll of innumerable granules of extreme minuteness. This semi-fluid lining is protoplasm, which thns constitutes a kind of bag, full of a limpid liquid,...seen to be in a condition of unceasing activity." And again : — " If a drop of blood be drawn by pricking one's finger, and viewed with proper precautions... | |
| Criticism - 1870 - 748 pages
...layer of semi fluid matter, full of innumerable granules of extreme minuteness. This semi-fluid lining is protoplasm, which thus constitutes a kind of bag,...high magnifying power, the protoplasmic layer of the netile hair is seen to be in a condition of unceasing activity. Local contractions of the whole thickness... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1870 - 842 pages
...extreme minuteness. Tbis semi-fluid lining is protoplasm, which thus constitutes a kind of bag, full of > limpid liquid, and roughly corresponding in form with...high magnifying power, the protoplasmic layer of the netile hair is seen to be in a condition of unceasing activity. Local contractions of the whole thickness... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - Life - 1870 - 56 pages
...layer of semifluid matter, full of innumerable granules of extreme minuteness. This semi-fluid lining is protoplasm, which thus constitutes a kind of bag, full of a limpid liquid, II and roughly corresponding in form with the interior of the hair which it fills. When viewed with... | |
| James Tyson - 1870 - 180 pages
...layer of semi-fluid matter, full of innumerable granules of extreme minuteness. This semifluid lining is protoplasm, which thus constitutes a kind of bag, full of a limpid fluid, and roughly corresponding in form with the interior of the hair which it fills. When viewed... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - Evolution (Biology) - 1871 - 422 pages
...layer of semifluid matter, full of innumerable granules of extreme minuteness. This semi-fluid lining is protoplasm, which thus constitutes a kind of bag,...roughly corresponding in form with the interior of *124 3£an Sermcnts, (Slssans, mtit gebiefos. [vn. the hair which it fills. "When viewed with a sufficiently... | |
| Science - 1871 - 318 pages
...layer of semifluid matter, full of innumerable granules of extreme minuteness. This semi-fluid lining is protoplasm, which thus constitutes a kind of bag, full of a limpid liquid, . II and roughly corresponding in form with the interior of the hair which it fills. When viewed with... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - Automatism - 1886 - 350 pages
...layer of semi-fluid matter, full of innumerable granules of extreme minuteness. This semi-fluid lining is protoplasm, which thus constitutes a kind of bag,...power, the protoplasmic layer of the nettle hair is sees to be in a condition of unceasing activity. Local contractions of the whole thickness of its substance... | |
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