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PROF. DEMBOWSKI'S “In Search of the Nature of Life” is a second edition, greatly enlarged and brought up to date, of his book “The Natural History of a Protozoon”, published about twelve years ago. The author tries to describe the problems of general biology, taking Paramecium as his example. In a series of chapters he discusses some technical problems of culture, the structure of Paramecium, movements, tropisms, the uptake of food and excretion, respiration, reproduction, variability and heredity, psychological phenomena.
Z Dziedsiny Nauki i Techniki
Tom 6: W Poszukiwaniu istoty ycia: Historja naturalna Jednego Pierwotniaka. Napisa Prof. Dr. Jan Dembowski. Pp. xii + 356 + 8 plates. (Warszawa: ” Mathesis Polska”, 1934.) zl. 14.
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N., W. Z Dziedsiny Nauki i Techniki. Nature 137, 969 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137969c0
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