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nd the structure of the atom, p. 108--Effect of radio-activity upon heat-giving life of the sun and the earth, p. 111. CHAPTER V--THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY The aquarium, p. 113--The arrangement of the tanks and exhibits, p. 114--The submarine effect of this arrangement, p. 115--Appearance of the submarine dwellers in their natural surroundings, p. 116--The eels and cuttle-fishes, p. 116--The octopuses, p. 117--The technical department of the laboratory, p. 119--The work of Dr. Anton Dohrn, founder of the laboratory, p. 121--The associates of Dr. Dohrn, p. 122--The collecting of surface specimens, p. 123--Collecting specimens by dredging, p. 124--Fauna of the Bay of Naples, p. 124--Abundance of the material for biological study, p. 125--Advantages offered by marine specimens for biological study, p. 126--Method of preserving jelly-fish and similar fragile creatures, p. 127--Uses made of the specimens in scientific study, p. 128--Different nationalities represented among the workers at the laboratory, p. 130--Methods of investigation, p. 131--Dr. Diesch's studies of heredity at the laboratory, p. 131--Other subjects under scientific investigation, p. 132--The study of chromosomes, p. 133--Professor Weismann's theory of heredity based on these studies, p. 33--Experiments in the division of egg-cells, p. 134--Experiments tending to refute Weismann's theory, p. 136--Dr. Dohrn*s theory of the type of the invertebrate ancestor, p. 137--Publications of the laboratory, p. 139--Meetings of the investigators at Signor Bifulco's, p. 141--Marine laboratories of other countries, p. 142. CHAPTER VI--ERNST HAECKEL AND THE NEW ZOOLOGY The "dream city" of Jena, p. 145--The old market-place, p. 147--The old lecture-halls of the university, p. 148--Ernst Haeckel, p. 151--His discoveries of numerous species of radiolarians, p. 153--The part played in evolution by radiolarians, p. 156--Haeckel's work on morphology, and its aid to Darwinian philosophy, p. 156--Freedom of thought and expression in the University of Jena, p. 157--Haeckel's laboratory, p. 160--His method of working, p. 161--His methods of teaching, p. 164--The import of the study of zoology, p. 166--Its bearing upon evolution, p. 168--The present status of Haeckel's genealogical tree regarding the ancestry of man, p. 171--Dubois's discovery of the skull of the ape-man of Java, p. 173--Its close re
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