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Bathybius Haeckelii

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BATHYBIUS HAECKELII. - A gelatinous slime dredged from the bottom of the Atlantic, which T. H. Huxley named thus, identifying in it the primordial living matter of the depths ("organisms without organs" in Haeckel's sense). In 1879 Huxley himself accepted the inorganic nature of the b. H. Haeckel (v.) continued for some time to regard it as an undifferentiated protoplasmic mass, in accordance with the preconceived theory of spontaneous generation.

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BIBL.: E. Rädl, Geschichte der biologischen Theorien, II, Leipzig 1909, p. 291 ff.; O. Hertwig, Allgemeine Biologie, Jena 1923, p. 270.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II (1949), col. 998.

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Scremin, Luigi. “Bathybius Haeckelii.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, col. 998. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/bathybius-haeckelii.

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Scremin, Luigi. “Bathybius Haeckelii.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 998. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/bathybius-haeckelii.

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  author    = {Scremin, Luigi},
  title     = {Bathybius Haeckelii},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {II},
  pages     = {998},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1949},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/bathybius-haeckelii}
}

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