Forced movements, tropisms, and animal conduct / by Jacques Loeb.

  • Jacques Loeb
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[1918], ©1918
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Credit: Forced movements, tropisms, and animal conduct / by Jacques Loeb. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EDITORS’ ANNOUNCEMENT The rapidly increasing specialization makes it im- possible for one author to cover satisfactorily the whole field of modern Biology. This situation, which exists in all the sciences, has induced English authors to issue series of monographs in Biochemistry, Physiology, and Physics. A number of American biologists have decided to provide the same opportunity for the study of Experimental Biology. Biology, which not long ago was purely descriptive and speculative, has begun to adopt the methods of the exact sciences, recognizing that for permanent progress not only experiments are required but that the experi- ments should be of a quantitative character. It will be the purpose of this series of monographs to emphasize and further as much as possible this development of Biology. Experimental Biology and Gieneral Physiology are one and the same science, by method as well as by contents, since both aim at explaining life from the physico-chemical constitution of living matter. The series of monographs on Experimental Biology will therefore include the field of traditional General Physiology. Jacques Loeb, T. H. Morgan,