NOTE. . 



of the globe ; and that the same forces or powers which 

 govern inorganic matter are seen to prevail in organic beings 

 likewise, combining and decomposing the various substances, 

 regulating the forms and properties of organic tissues, but 

 acting in these cases under complicated conditions yet 

 unexplained, to which the very vague terms of l vital phae- 

 nomena/ 'operations of vital forces/ have been assigned, 

 and which have been systematically grouped, according to 

 analogies more or less happily imagined." (Compare also 

 the critical notices on the assumption of proper or peculiar 

 vital forces in Schleiden's Botanik als inductive Wissenchaft 

 (Botany as an Inductive Science), Th. i. S. 60, and in the 

 recently published excellent Untersuchungen uber thierische 

 Elektricitat (Researches on Animal Electricity), by Emil du 

 Bois-Eeymond, Bd. i. S. xxxiv.-l.) 



