Chapter XX
It is deemed best to omit the references to Technical papers upon which the summaries of recent tendencies are based. Morgan’s Experimental Zoology, 1907. Jennings, Behavior of the Lower Organisms, 1906. Mosquitoes and other insects in connection with the transmission of disease, see Folsom, Entomology, 1906, chapter IX, p. 299. Biological Laboratories: Dean, The Marine Biological Stations of Europe, Ann. Rept. Smithson. Inst., 1894; Marine Biolog. Station at Naples, Harper’s Mag., 1901; The Century, vol. 10 (Emily Nunn Whitman); Williams, A History of Science, vol. V, chapter V, 1904; Am. Nat., vol. 31, 1897; Pop. Sci. Mo., vol. 54, 1899; ibid., vol. 59, 1901. Woods Hole Station—A Marine University, Ann. Rept. Smithson. Inst., 1902.
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