Abstract
SECTION D. BIOLOGY. OPENING ADDRESS BY PROF. J. S. BURDON SANDERSON M.A., M.D., LL.D., F.R.SS. L. & e., PRESIDENT OF THE SECTION. IT has long ceased to be possible in the course of an annual address in Section D to give an account even of the most important advances which have been made during the preceding twelve months in the various branches of knowledge which are now included under the term Biology. One reason is that each of the biological subjects has acquired such vast dimensions; the other, that the two main branches—Morphology, which strives to explain why plants and animals have assumed the forms and structure which they possess, and Physiology, which seeks to understand how the living organism works—have now diverged from each other so widely as regards subject and method, that there seems to be danger of complete separation of the one from the other.
Article PDF
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
The British Association. Nature 40, 521–533 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040521a0
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/040521a0