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THE seventy-fourth annual meeting of the Association of German Naturalists and Physicians was held on September 21–28 at Carlsbad, after an interval of not less than forty years. At the meeting, very naturally, the hot springs for which the place is famous suggested a suitable subject for discussion. Geologists and chemists alike concentrated their attention upon them. Prof, van't Hoff, who may be regarded as the veritable creator of modern theoretical and physical chemistry, was there to elucidate the subject. Prof. Meyerhofer applied the latest teaching of that particular science to the springs, exciting a keen interest by his masterly method of dealing with the subject, more particularly when entering into the newest discoveries with regard to the theory of osmotic pressure and of ions which van't Hoff and Arrhenius have effectively established. The entire organism in biology may be shown to be a collection of osmotic cells, enclosing saline solutions, and the movement of liquids in them is to a high degree, if not entirely, determined by the laws of osmotic pressure.
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SCHUMAN-LECLERCQ, F. Carlsbad Meeting of the German Association of Naturalists and Physicians . Nature 67, 20–22 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/067020a0
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