THE BIRTH OF LIFE.
BRITISH ASSOCIATION’S DISCUSSION. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT] (Received Sept. 11. 11.5 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 11. The British Association debated on the origin of life. Professor Minchin. (Professor of Protozoology) stated that chromatin was the nucleus of primitive living substance.
Professor Wager, the botanist, opined that the blue and green algae cell stands for the birth of life. Cytoplasm was the original cell, matter. Dr. Haldane criticised the materialism in Prof Schaefer’s address, which, lie said, tended to -deliver biology bound band and foot to the existing interpretation of the organic world.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIIII, Issue 3626, 12 September 1912, Page 5
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