Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, First Part: Porulosa (Spumellaria and Acantharia): Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, Vol. XVIIIHaeckel, Ernst
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Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, First Part: Porulosa (Spumellaria and Acantharia): Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, Vol. XVIII
Haeckel, Ernst
Radiolaria
C. Regarding the sensation of warmth or temperature-sense and its
dependence upon different climatic relations, see L. N. 16, p. 129; L. N.
52, pp. 114-129.
D. Regarding the sensation of light, compare L. N. 16, p. 128; L. N. 42,
p. 304; L. N. 52, pp. 102-104, 114.
E. Regarding the sense of taste of the Radiolaria or their peculiar
sensitiveness towards the different chemical composition of the water,
change in its salinity, presence of organic impurities, &c., see L. N.
16, p. 130; L. N. 52, pp. 103, 113. This chemical irritability seems to
be the most highly developed sense in the Radiolaria, even more so than
their mechanical irritability.
F. The perception of hydrostatic equilibrium among the Radiolaria is
immediately visible from the position which their bodies, floating freely
in the water, assume spontaneously, and from the symmetrical development
of the skeleton, which by its gravitation necessitates a definite
position. It may be assumed that the development of the various
geometrical ground forms which correspond to a definite position of
equilibrium, is the result of this particular kind of perception (compare
§§ 40-45).
{cxlv}G. The plastic perception of distance of the pseudopodia is shown
by the symmetry with which the forms composing the regular skeletal
structures (_e.g._, the ordinary lattice-spheres with regular hexagonal
meshes, the radial spines with equidistant branches) are excreted from
the exoplasm. Both this form of sensation and the one first mentioned
(note F) have hitherto received scarcely any attention, but are deserving
of a thorough physiological investigation.
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