Owning includes offline reading and never expires.
Nature, Gardens & Animals
Jelly-Fish, Star-Fish, and Sea-Urchins: Being a Research on Primitive Nervous Systems
George John Romanes
281 pages~5 hr 36 min read51 chapters$4.99
George Romanes cut into the drifting medusa to find the first faint nerves in the animal kingdom. By excising margins and umbrellas, he watched how a creature without a brain still moves and feels. This research on primitive nervous systems opened a window on how nerves began. Dive into the origins of sensation itself.
Every copy includes a printable PDF edition, a beautifully typeset book you can print, mark up in the margins, and keep on your shelf. Yours the moment you own it.
Inside this book
51 chapters
- 1JELLY-FISH, STAR-FISH AND SEA-URCHINS
- 2PREFACE.
- 3CONTENTS.
- 4INTRODUCTION.
- 5CHAPTER I. STRUCTURE OF THE MEDUSÆ.
- 6CHAPTER II. FUNDAMENTAL EXPERIMENTS.
- 7Effects of excising the entire Margins of Nectocalyces.
- 8Effects of excising the entire Margins of Umbrellas.
- 9Effects of excising Certain Portions of the Margins of Nectocalyces.
- 10Effects of excising Certain Portions of the Margin of Umbrellas.
- 11Effects upon the Manubrium of excising the Margin of a Nectocalyx or Umbrella.
- 12Summary of Chapter.
- 13CHAPTER III. EXPERIMENTS IN STIMULATION.
- 14Mechanical, Chemical, and Thermal Stimulation.
- 15Luminous Stimulation.
- 16Electrical Stimulation.
- 17Period of Latency, and Summation of Stimuli.
- 18Effects of Temperature on Excitability.
+ 33 more. The full contents open with the book.
More to explore
More in Nature, Gardens & Animals
The Flower-Patch Among the Hills
Flora Klickmann
$4.99
"The One" Dog and "The Others": A Study of Canine Character
Frances Elizabeth Slaughter and Augusta Guest
$4.99
"Wee Tim'rous Beasties": Studies of Animal life and Character
Douglas English
$4.99
'And So Ad Infinitum' (The Life of the Insects)
Karel Čapek and others
$4.99
100 Desert Wildflowers in Natural Color
Natt Noyes Dodge
$4.99
A bacteriological study of ham souring
Charles Neil McBryde
$4.99
A Bird Calendar for Northern India
Douglas Dewar
$4.99
A Bird-Lover in the West
Olive Thorne Miller
$4.99
A Book of Dartmoor
Sabine Baring-Gould
$4.99
A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open
Theodore Roosevelt
$4.99
A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs
Laurence Hutton
$4.99
A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed.
William Chauncey Bartlett
$4.99
Every book, one price
Read it all with NaturaRead Plus
The whole catalogue for USD 6.99 per month. Or open all five apps with All-Access for USD 19.99 a month, or USD 149 a year.