182 NOTES 



86. Hastings. Site of the decisive battle, 1066 a.d., between the 

 EngUsh led by Harold, and the Normans under William, Duke of 

 Normandy. 



87. tertiary. The entire geological history of the earth has been 

 divided as follows: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, and Quaternary. 

 The tertiary period has been subdivided into three groups according 

 to the percentage of a certain kind of life in each group. The 

 quaternary is the modern or so-called "recent" period in which 

 we live to-day. 



PHYSICAL BASIS OF LIFE 



Qi. fungus. A plant belonging to the group Fungi or mu-nhroom 

 family; a very low order of vegetable life. 



animalcules. See note, p. 76. 



Schoolmen. See note, p. 22. 



k fortiori. For a stronger reason; all the more. 



92. epigram. Freely translated. Why do the people drive them- 

 selves so, and make clamor? They desire to support themselves, 

 bring children into the world, and care for them as well as possible. 

 . . . No one can do more, strive as he may. 



95. Maelstrom. A celebrated whirlpool or violent current in the 

 Arctic Ocean, near the western coast of Norway; once thought to 

 be so dangerous that no one who came near it could escape alive. 



Algae. One-celled water plants. 



Fungi. See note, p. 91. 



Milne-Edwards, Henri, 1800-1885. A noted French naturalist. 



98. De Barry, Heinrich Anton, 1831-1888. A German botanist. 



99. cognate. Related in origin. 



100. reagent. A substance used to effect chemical change in 

 another substance for the purpose of identifying its component 

 parts. 



proteine. A word no longer used. Cf. proteid in Century 

 Dictionary. 



coagulation. Changing from a fluid to a thickened, curdlike 

 state; e.g., the coagulation or clotting of the blood. 



40^-50° centigrade. 104°-! 2 2° Fahrenheit. 



Kiihne, Wilhelm. A German physiologist, born 1837. 



loi. permutation. Change in general; interchange. 



Debemur morti nos nostraque. We and ours are bound to die. 



102. Peau de Chagrin. Wild Ass's Skin. A story by the noted 

 French writer, Balzac. See note, p. 13. 



103. catholicity. Universality. All animals, including man, have 

 this power of assimilation. 



