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an interesting study of this question under the title Etudes 

 experimentales sur In generation i>rimitizr, published bv Jules 

 Kousset. 



I should mention also among the works of synthetic biology 

 the publications of Professor Otto Lehmann of Karlsruhe, and 

 in particular FiitssigB Krij.stallc und die Thearien de.s Lebens, 

 Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth. 



Professor Ulenhuth of Berlin has published his study 

 on the osmotic growth of iron in alkaline hypochlorites under 

 the title Untersuchungen ueber Antiformin, Berlin, Julius 

 Springer. 



Professor Gariel has made a series of researches on osmotic 

 growth which are published in Abraham's Rented ^experi- 

 ences tie physique. 



A. Lecha Marzo of Valladolid published his researches on 

 the growth of aniline colours in the Gaceta Medica Catalana, 

 1909, under the title Otrtt nuevajlora artifieiale. 



Dr. Maurice dTIalluin of Lille has also published a volume 

 on osmotic growths under the title, Stephane Lethte a-t-il cree 

 la vie:' 



The subjects of the numerous memoirs that I have myself 

 published during the last ten years upon the question are 

 treated anew in the pages of this volume, and a resume of my 

 researches on osmotic growth has already appeared in the 

 Documents du Progres, Sept. 1909. 



We have thus shown that synthetic morphogenesis has 

 already attracted the attention of a certain number of ardent 

 investigators. Morphogeny lias now its methods and its 

 results, and physiogeny is also developing side by side with it, 

 since function is but the result of form. The field of research 

 is opened, and workers alone are needed in order to reap an 

 abundant harvest 



