4.04.2008

THE STRUCTURE OF PROTOPLASM AND OF GELS: AN ANALOGY.

BY WILLIAM SEIFRIZ.
{Botanical Laboratory, The University, Ann Arbor, Michigan.)

Scahlek and Szegvary, and Svedberg, have recently
described remarkable instances of sudden liquefaction of
inorganic colloidal gels which have a striking analogy in the
collapse of the gel structure of the protoplasm of a dividing
echinoderm egg when the latter is subjected to mechanical
pressure. It is the purpose of this paper to call attention to
this analogy.

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