On Growth and Form, Volume 1"I have written [this book] as an easy introduction to the study of organic Form, by methods which are the common-places of physical science, which are by no means novel in their application to natural history, but which nevertheless naturalists are little accustomed to employ."--Preface. |
Contents
CHAP PAGE I INTRODUCTORY | 1 |
ON MAGNITUDE | 22 |
THE RATE OF GROWTH | 78 |
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