5. But the grand objection applies to
the change hypothesis by which Mr. Gosse
imagines he can account for the expulsion
of the thread of the thread cell
The fluid contents are supposed to be endowed
with a high degree of expansibility & to be
compressed during the repose of the capsule
but on the excitement by a suitable stimulus
it is imagined that the fluid forcibly expands
thereby everting the thread
The only “highly expansible” fluids (in the authors sense) with which
I am acquainted are gases. If the capsule
were filled with an aeriform fluid - the
difference between its refractive power &
that of the surrounding liquid would
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- Author
- Philip Henry Gosse
- Reference
- RR/3/119
- Series
- RR
- Date
- 1858
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Referee report by T. H. Huxley on 'Researches on the Poison-Apparatus in the Actiniadae' by Gosse, 1858. From The Royal Society, RR/3/119
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