| Description Of Item | Includes: extract from lectures on histology; extract from 'Typical Forms and Special Ends in Creation' by Cash and Dickie; extract from 'Botanical and Physiological Memoirs consisting of the phenomenon of rejuvenescence in nature, especially in the life and development of plants' by Alexander Braun; extract from 'The Plant - A Biography' by Professor Schlieden; extract from a review of 'Rambles of a Naturalist' by Quatrefages; extract from 'Microscopical Researches into the Accordance in the Structure of Animals and Plants' by Schwaan and Schlieden; extract from Mr Knight's 'on the causes which influence the direction of the growth of roots' 1811; Knight's 'on the expansion and contraction of timber' 1817; extract from 'The World of the Mind' by Isaac Taylor; extract from Paley's 'Natural Theology'; extract from Raspail's 'Nouveau système de chimie organique' 1833; extract from 'Lectures on Painting' by Sir Joshua Reynolds; extract from 'Life and Correspondence of Dr Arnold'; 'On Judgements; Prescriptions from Pemberton's Diseases of the Abdominal Viscera'; a list of Hippocrates' works; and speech of Sir William Somerville. |