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Loeb, Jacques. Dynamics of living matter. *$3. Macmillan.
This volume owes its origin to a series of lectures delivered by the author at Columbia university in 1902. It is the purpose of the lectures “to state to what extent we are able to control the phenomena of development, self preservation, and reproduction.” The chapters are as follows: Concerning the general chemistry of life phenomena, The general physical constitution of living matter, On some physical manifestations of life, The role of electrolytes in the formation and preservation of living matter, The effects of heat and radiant energy upon living matter, Heliotropism, Further facts concerning tropisms and related phenomena, Fertilization, Heredity, and On the dynamics of regenerative processes.