| Reference number | AP/60/19 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Unpublished paper, 'About some general laws of animal life' by Nicholas [Nikolai] Wagner |
| Creator | Wagner; Nikolai (1829-1907); Russian zoologist; editor |
| Date | 1879 |
| Description | Wagner writes: 'The propagation and increase of any animal by means of the buds occurs after that time when the growth of the organism has richen'd to certain limits. When one animal has reached such border where terminates the power which bounds all his parts in a harmonic organized whole only then occurs the phenomenon of disintegration, expressed in the multiplication or increase of the organism by means of the buds.'
Marked on front as 'Archives Nov 6'. Includes one set of diagrams in the text.
Subject: Biology
Received and read 19 June 1879. Communicated by T H [Thomas Henry] Huxley.
Written by Wagner at 32 Gower Street, Bedford Square [London]. |
| Extent | 12p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Diagram |
| Physical description | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
| Related records in the catalogue | MC/11/389 |
| MC/11/401 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA8243 | Huxley; Thomas Henry (1825 - 1895) | 1825 - 1895 |