Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Transport by Blood Containing Haemocyanin 



biological significance at all, but personally I am more in sympathy 

 with the opinion, put forward by Sir Joseph Barcroft in his admirable 

 book Features in the Architecture of Physiological Function that, in the 

 organism, a phenomenon is more likely to have a significance than not. 



Received August 1948 



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