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THE UNITY OF THE 

 ORGANISM 



OR 

 THE ORGANISMAL CONCEPTION OF LIFE 



BY 



William Emerson Ritter 



Director of the Scripps Institution for 



Biological Research of the University 



of California, La Jolla 



California 



TWO VOLUMES 

 VOLUME ONE 



ILLUSTRATED 



BOSTON 



RICHARD G. BADGER 



THE GORHAM PRESS 



