AWAKENING OF POND LIFE 



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they stimulate development. As all cells possess a coefficient 

 of diffusion, so therefore will they take various times to absorb 

 the auxetics and kinetics supplied to them, and will therefore 

 complete their life cycles at different times, giving us a possible 

 explanation of the sequence observed in the vegetable kingdom. 

 It is possible, in fact probable, that other factors may also be 

 concerned, but I think there can be no doubt that owing to 

 bacterial action, kinetics are produced in larger quantities as 

 spring advances, and augmenting the action of the auxetics 

 cause a large increase in the development of all living matter. 

 It would therefore seem that death is essential for the due 

 maintenance of life, for as all natural auxetics are the products 

 of cytolysis there must inevitably be death to produce the 

 substances essential for the continuance and awakening of life. 

 In autumn and winter, therefore, when all nature seems dying, 

 we may picture the products of this death gradually being 

 absorbed finally to cause the resurrection in spring. 1 



References 



i. Drew, A. H., "Auxetic Action on the Spores of a new Species of Polytoma," 

 Knowledge, March 19 13. 



2. Ross, H. C, Induced Cell Reproduction and Cancer. (London, J. Murray, 1910.) 



3. Cropper, J. W., and Drew, A. H., Researches into Induced Cell Reproduction 



in Amcebce, The McFadden Researches. (London, J. Murray, March 1914.) 



TABLE A 

 Preliminary Examination for Auxetics and Kinetics 



1 Since writing the above (3) it has been shown that the presence of a 

 ferment is probably necessary for an auxetic to act, the kinetics probably 

 activating the ferment ; hence the increase in decomposed vegetable matter 

 during autumn probably also supplies an extra amount of enzyme. 



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