300 BIOLOGY. [Boon in. 



activity, then he will have acquired the power of scientifically 

 modifying and regulating the phenomena of life. He will ex- 

 tend his dominion over living nature, as the natural philosopher 

 and the chemist have acquired their power over the phenomena 

 of inert nature. ' ' 1 



1 Cl. Bernard, Rapport sur Us Prorjres de la Physioloyie Ginirale en France. 



NOTE. 



The reader is anew reminded that when degrees of heat are mentioned the 

 Centigrade scale is always implied, so that thirty and thirty-five degrees 

 Centigrade correspond respectively to eighty-six and ninety-five degrees 

 Fah renheit Translator. 



