Upon animal individuality / Thomas H. Huxley.

  • Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895.
Date:
[1852]
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Credit: Upon animal individuality / Thomas H. Huxley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    When the forms of the Individual are independent it becomes desirable to have some special name by which we may denote them so as to avoid the incessant ambiguity of the two senses of the word individual. For these forms the Lecturer some time ago proposed the name “ Zooid.” Thus the Salpa-individual is represented by two Zooids ; the Fluke by three ; the Aphis by nine or eleven, &c. The use of this term is of course a mere matter of convenience and has nothing to do with the question of Individuality itself. [T. H. H.] In the Library were exhibited : — Leadbeater’s Cockatoo; and Australian Birds. [Exhibited by Messrs. Leadbeaters.] Specimens of the Flora of South Africa, recently brought over by Mr. P. Wicks. Idol in Granite — Clay heads and Figures, from the Pyramids at Mexico — Mediaeval Copper Vase and Spoon — Chinese Compass, and Cup, &c.— Specimen of Ancient Papyrus — Handle of Knife, in carved wood (from Strawberry-hill)—“ Eve,” in Roman Bronze — Head of a Faun, from Carthage. [Exhibited by Dr. W. V. Pettigrew, M. R. I.] View of a Mountain Stream, sketched in the Tropics, by P. W. Justyne, Esq. Greyhounds in Bronze — Inlaid Marble Table from Derbyshire — Two Septaria Slabs from the Oxford Clay — Two Marble Vases copied from the Etruscan—Beautiful Specimen of Gold in Quartz, from South Australia (value £70) — Stereoscope with two slides of Minerals, by Mr. Tennant. Minerals and other Objects, from the Royal Institution Museum. Mr. C. Varley exhibited by the Microscope, Embryo Snails, shewing the action of the heart, &c., the circulation of the Sap in the Nitella, and the Trumpet-shaped animalcules.