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THIS introduction to general biology has a pleasing freshness, a quality difficult to attain in these days of many books. It has necessarily much in common with other good introductions, such as Parker's “Elementary Biology,” but it is distinctive. It considers general biology as having to do with fundamental facts and principles—with protoplasm and vitality, metabolism, food and transformations of energy, organic architecture, inter-relations, the curve of life from development to senescence, and, finally, species and the factors in evolution. These are the even divisions of the book, which aims at providing a foundation suitable for the further study of one or more of the many branches.
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T., J. Biology . Nature 94, 504–505 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/094504b0
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