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A NEW volume of Proceedings of the Bologna Mathematical Congress begins with a short paper by Max Brückner, on the old problem of how many different polyhedra are possible of n sides—with the limiting condition that all the corners shall be trihedral. In my book on “Growth and Form” I dealt with the kindred problem of the possible number of arrangements of a plane assemblage of cells, their partition-walls all meeting three-by-three, as is actually the case in a system of soap-bubbles or of living cells. The problem of the polyhedra is just as interesting to the biologist; for any natural clump of cells, such as a totally segmented egg or ‘morula’, may be looked on as a polyhedron and may be studied accordingly.
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THOMPSON, D. Embryology and the Theory of Polyhedra. Nature 128, 31 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128031a0
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