in the <s>walls<\s> interior of the capsule, is excited by
the “compression of the surrounding tissues” -
I confer my inability to understand
how you can compress the tissues surrounding
a body - and yet be quite sure that you
do not exert some pressure on that body.
4. Mr. Gosse at p.16 affirms that he has
heard a distinct crack or crepitation when
the thread cells burst.
I cannot but think that the sensation
must have been subjective - The sacs are not
1/200th of an inch long - they are inclosed between
two plates of glass and are at least eight
or ten inches from the ear. - Would it
be possible to <u>hear<\u> a corresponding
bulk of gunpowder explode under the conditions
of the experiment?
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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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