MYSTERIES OF BIOLOGY.

Gisborne Times, Volume LX, Issue 9723, 5 June 1924, Page 5

MYSTERIES OF BIOLOGY.

REGENT DISCOVERIES,

Julian Huxley, writing on Recent Discoveries in Biology, says in Weekly Westminster : “The public would do well to remember, however, that the occasional startling discovery is always standing on the shoulders of hundreds of other discoveries, interlocked inextricably with the results obtained by workers in every country. It is, however, becoming every year clearer and clearer that, what we cs'i temperament is largely (although certainly not velum}) under the control of these glands. "\Ylicit wc arc now endeavoring to fin'd is the way in which each one of what one writer referred to as ‘the interlocking chemical <U~ectorate of the body’ affects all the rest. , “How can I give some of tne impressions gained by these nho knov. what research is, and what its stream signifies to the future? In labelatories all over tbe country people are asking questions. “How do muscles contract, nerves conduct, or glands secrete? By what means does ultra-violet- light change the body’s chemistry so as to make up for a* deficiency of one of the vitamins ? Is it possible to penetrate to the very recesses as it were, of the organism, and affect the germplasm, the hereditary constitution, that which it seems" to guard from change more jealously than any other part, perhaps because the is holding it in trust- for the race? What is it that, in the unformed mass of protoplasm and yolk which constitutes, a frog’s egg. causes each organ suddenly to appear each in its proper 1 “In these and a thousand other questions are being asked in the Universities and. research laboratories of this country: and Nature, pinned down in test-tube, metabolism chamber, or breeding pen. is kept under duress until she lets escape her answer. “Faraday, messing his cellar labonv torv, forged the magic bit ov means of "which man has tamed to his own uses the wild horse Electricity: and Men!el pottering in his garden, found in his peas the secret which one day will allow, mankind to transform