Abstract
THE "Manager of the Performance" as Prof. Beutner invites his readers to regard him, apparently supported by the Provost, Dean and staff of his Institute, stands on the stage before the curtains are drawn for the film. The technique is useful in that exact references to literature are unnecessary and concentration of eye and brain is secured. There is also no index and the mind is not usually disturbed by references to the sources from which the pictures are derived. These lapses make the film less useful to scientific men, while causing less strain on the commencing students of science and medicine for whom it is perhaps primarily intended. To these, all comparisons between the reactions of living and non-living matter cannot but present helpful analogies, which may well prove of great value to medicine, as suggested in the epilogue. The subject, however, has a wider appeal, for evidently certain of its sides have been the author's research life for many years. It deserves more than a passing reference.
Life's Beginning on the Earth
By Prof. R. Beutner. Pp. x + 222. (London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1939.) 12s. 6d. net.
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This is perhaps due to liquid crystallization, a process seen in the central filaments of the Heliozoa. The surface covering of AmÅ"ba consists of protein and lipoid molecules so that the pseudopodia must be quite different.
Their size is that of the molecule of hÅ"mocyanin.
This view is ascribed to "J. Jeans", who will scarcely desire to be termed "a Russian astronomer". Oparin apparently was not acquainted with Stanley's researches, for they are not included in his bibliography.
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GARDINER, J. Life's Beginning on the Earth. Nature 145, 277–278 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145277a0
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