The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 22, 1903, Page 13

THE SUNDAY CALL. 13 THE STRANGE STAR-FISH ©°Pg80% DEVELOFED 1N = - PROFE3SOR LOEBS'S SHELLS OF .S . HELLS OF SEA URCHI \ EXFPERIMENTS + & which for the American Prc lenged through the potassium cyanid “Lack of oxygen does not prolong prolongs but little the life of unfe: cggs. “Therefore, we come to important con- clusions as to_the nature of death. ““As long as we consider d 2 thing merely negative (namely % | tha tion of certan processes), | extremely paradoxi unfertilized esgs of t - . 8 are s g " & '4 ss and a - i ) I\ : 1 A s I W . ra ks 5. MR s zs w - % g where by 1 s and gres - e r . d to 4 . Naples s be fertilized after having been in . on poisoned solution from %0 to 100 hours. Eggs - e et he taken out after 168 hours were alive > v . B fofoforfofoorfofofefoiofmfoie oefoiedeodots ofotefofelooiodomteteetofufeefodefefotegeiel Tttt oot s.8.20s It has come to be a E ciple of sclence that w : WILL GROW FISH ON TREES AND sunvemna s 8o Declares D derick W. d'E ' f Profe e g es Dr. Frederic A velyn in Support of the Future Development of Professor Jacques e Loeb’s Wonderful Discoveries of the Secret of Life and Death. s ow ' is being prosecuted pressed upon the energid, and which in with the characteristics impressed upon tic to develop. Further Professor Loch states at Loeb is of much scien- Iits long | istency trended the outcome it by long acting environment, has ob- Professor Loeb, I am pleased to note, same eggs, howev . a . t deduc- ©f energid activity—that is growth, in tained the power of segmentation, which does not hold on to the popular theory of Wwhen caused to an ? p already r le. Pro- Certain constant directions, thus produc- is the Initial step leading up to the full ‘‘the blood 1s the life,”" but we do not at NOU. . L ob binn. ad. it Werh calaeats fixed f to which we have as- grown type, the mature sea urchin. If present clearly see our way to accept the SRl - from - = e # to its origin, SIENed names, e. 5., a cow, a rosebud or from any cause this innate property 18 statement: ““The basis of life s electric- g - " t Sidie ol mmoth prevented to develop, then a latency of ijty.” Wg would rather favor a formegly itkie . S0 ¢ \ n sclence permits us more fu life results, or, more profound still, a expressed opinion, that life was of a of . the cyamide . £ g ize the modus e anvirnd complete cessation, which Is death, the chemical character—man being simply a .., S - - . L »ceasion we a 4 to econtrol its pote it ascendency of the “mortal process,” i. e., chemical compound, with a mentality Su- "1 © .14 be a novel theme, indeed, to ac- v b s was the same; the energ be possible to so direct th " that it the latter of the two processes above re- peradded. In a series of investigatlons on .4 that it was possible to pois -l o the phenomenon of life was will no longer demand the present lines ferred to. animal and vegetable life we made 10 @8- goon for eighteen days a sea ur . * g o g2 e sy et but permit as resultants, We maintain that the solution of the ccrtain, if possible, the basis of life, we oo i s e i . o P . — twesn @ AT combi tic morpholds, riddle of ‘“life and death” will depend found most evidence in favor of a chemi- [ ot . ioq v its powers of hyd e SRer Tt v ever thelr ¢ the future to grow upon the power to modify at will in either cal factor, namely, a process of hydra- i S e bt s - S w M fha wntde . A A N R | white mice upon “tur- direction the potency of these two pro- tion;indeed, in full dehydratioh of the an- s of the creation el eay. which | phology migh ere simply o e G s AL et imal tissue, or of the vegetable cell, life prolonging life in- » ) cerrk " biotic states—that is, life fo ssor Loeb ess If in the environment caused by the ad- Was impossible. E definitely” long be withheld s shay E g vari possit death 1s simply dition of potassium cyunide Professor _The conclusion that life was dependent ..~ " n " . 5 A A S S R Mo s haneit upon or permitted only by the potency of - =t Sou. ‘ : ol egids vy oo 0 have done. . .gration, a chemical reaction, was so Still It Is w 3. SUNSSUEALe Snd el s rolong- ¢ d entirely owing to ) further and say (o mouify or direct the tendency of either ™% y . action, Was S% to unravel the myster y g0 £ RIIC e chmuen cotme BE. D the «xpression, is sim- of e processes, then he has thrown "rfs’lns‘ shét s 5;,"“;‘ i pon :"'P 21V the accession to it 1 oly s . f S X & puse Of Lly an Intrusion of environment which the first falnt ray of illumination along Ofner deduction. Professor Loeb says: °, oo Loeb’ e et Deos . eing, without which the initiatory stage DY & (B¢ it Sonftitation 40 it > e Mt ey T K “The specific life phenomena are so far ©f Professor Loe e - | tas which Pr 8 . f existence was an impossibility. it oo bone A f A LUtk Save the ¥htaci Rt egg 05 their chemical side is concerned chiet- 515;;‘;1‘“:‘1‘ “‘l‘:, gyt versity of Ca a he s | N 4 __ especs g e el v if not altoy y omena.” Tiched and entitled to sincere c: expectant eyes t entis £ the ey, the | TRl CHOY or yegatable “ifl;‘- was " In this interchange of environment we will dle; why should It do otherwise? It 3¢ '¢he '-.p::;;cer fi:;‘n'"t::l‘d)::;‘es “lare tlons. whole world. If he finally demonstrates | to’ one and the same energid, the poss| s of life a o v v - f o . = v ~ - e a6 2 f'_‘m A% (“e.memmied i’:“g e 1 vfl{lrlll‘l!.e-s M,h{.‘ ‘;nd of death. has not the environment of life given t0 chemical,” and we favor that deduction, 1f, perchance, to this favored State of | the o tness of theories se- ¥ ain o ses, which hat Jife in one cas iabel i a urchin's egg Professor Loeb-- it and it dies. then we would prefer to consider that the Union it should be granted to solve |cre jeath, what an honor it b £ X nd_w T case in an animal, was s statement correctly—recog- One of two Drocesses it must follow. “life” reactions obtained by the potas- the weird, seductive problem of life one | will be rnia B - n d racteristic which we nizes two kinds of processes, one leading Fertilization is the environment nec: sium cynanide were of a chemical rather could only reveren ly say amen, so let | At any ther year goes | denomin an environment im- to life, one tending to death. The former sary to permit its impressed characteris- than of an electric character. it be. "REDE ICK W. D’EVELYN. |by we shall see what we shall see