The mechanistic conception of life : biological essays / by Jacques Loeb.

Chicago, Ill. : The University of Chicago Press, [1912], ©1912.

3-232 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

GM 135

Reprinted from various sources

This edition was reprinted in December 1912

Copy 1 Note: December 1912 printing

The mechanistic conception of life.--The significance of tropisms for psychology.--Some fundamental facts and conceptions concerning the comparative physiology of the central nervous system.--Pattern adaptation of fishes and the mechanism of vision.--On some facts and principles of physiological morphology.--On the nature of the process of fertilization.--On the nature of formative stimulation (artificial parthenogenesis)--The prevention of the death of an egg through the act of fertilization.--The role of salts in the preservation of life.--Experimental study of the influence of environment on animals