The relation of the vegetable and animal to the inorganic kingdom : a lecture delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain / by William S. Savory.

  • Savory, William Scovell, 1826-1895.
Date:
1861
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    A LECTURE, SfC. Plants and animals, when viewed in the relation in which they stand to inorganic substances, may fairly be regarded as together constituting one great kingdom of nature—the organized. For however widely their more advanced members may be separated, there can be no denial of the fact that plants and animals are connected by common characters—those very characters by which they are especially distinguished from the inorganic kingdom. Whatever may be thought of Schwann’s exposi- tion of it, there is no doubt that his view of the uniformity in structure of plants and animals is, in the main, correct—that is to say, in their ele- mentary tissues may be recognized the existence of homologous parts. How far this homology may