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 NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY Arthur Piatt, De Generatione Animalium, English Transla- tion, Oxford, 1910. 24. Sir Arthur Hort, Theophrastus* Enquiry Into Plants, with an English Translation, in The Loeb Classical Library. 2 vols. New York, 1916. 25. Aristotle refers to the vivisection of a chameleon in Hist. An., II. 11. (503 b.) 26. See Charles Singer, " Greek Biology and its Relation to the Rise of Modern Biology," in Singer's Studies in the History and Method of Science, Oxford, 192 1; II. i-ioo. 27. It is more elaborately discussed in De Partibus Ani- malium, II. I ff. (646 a.) 28. De Gen. An., II. i. (731 b.) 29. De Partibus Animalium, I. S- (64S a.) ; says Henri Poincare: "We seek reality, but what is reality? The physiologists teU us that organisms are formed of cells; the chemists add that cells themselves are formed of atoms. Does this mean that these atoms or these cells constitute reality, or rather the sole reality? The way in which these ceUs are arranged, and from which results the unity of the individual, is not it also a reality much more in- teresting than that of the isolated elements . . . ? " Again: "... it is in the relations alone that objectivity must be sought; it would be vain to seek it in beings considered as isolated from one another." Foundations of Science, (1913), p. 217 and p. 350. 30. De Partibus Animalium, I. i. (641 b.) 31. Hist An., VIII. I. (588 b.-589 a.) 32. Uepi ^vo-ios xaiSiov, On the Nature of the Embryo, § 29, dted by Singer, o.c. 33- Hist. An., VI. 3. (561 a.) 34. D'Arcy W. Thompson, On Aristotle as a Biologist, (Herbert Spencer Lecture, 1913), Oxford, 1913. Cf. also, in greater detail, Charles Singer, in his " Greek Biology," etc., o.c, pp. 29 ff., which contains other examples of Aristotle's penetrating observation aided by dissection. 35. Cf. William Ogle, De Partibus Animalium, English Translation, Oxford, 1911; Int., p. 27. 36. Charles Singer, " Greek Biology," etc., o.c, pp. 19, 20. [148]