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=The Interpretation Of Development and Heredity=
[[File:Edward Stuart Russell.jpg|thumb|alt=Edward Stuart Russell|Edward Stuart Russell (1887 – 1954)]]
'''A Study In  Biological Method''' 


By 

E. S. Russell 

O.B.E., M.A., D.Sc., F.L.S. 


Oxford 

At The Clarendon Press 
1930



"''He said that new systems of nature were but new fashions, which would vary in every age ; and even those  who pretend to demonstrate them from mathematical  principles would flourish but a short period of time, and be out of vogue when that was determined.''" Jonathan Swift. 

"''Allein die Natur giebt dem Beobachter derselben nur Stoff zur Bewunderung der Einfachheit, mit der sie wirkt, und zur Verwunderung iiber die Geneigtheit, mit der der menschliche Witz ein ihm wunderbar scheinendes Phanomen durch unendlich grossere und unbegreiflichere Wunder erklart.''" Karl Ernst von Baer. 

* Nature alone gives to the observer only to admire the simplicity with which it works, and to marvel at the inclination with which the human joke explains a phenomenon which seems to him to be wonderful, through infinitely greater and incomprehensible miracles.


==Preface==
I Desire to express my thanks to my friends Professor A. E. Boycott and Mr. G. W. Harris 
for their critical reading of this book in manuscript, and to Mr. Harris for some of the translations from the German. I am indebted also to  Mr. R. G. Collingwood for some sound advice  on matters touching philosophy. 

E. S. R. 

==Contents==

# [[Russell1930 1|Introductory]]
# [[Russell1930 2|Aristotle’s ‘De Generatione Animalium’]]
# [[Russell1930 3|Preformation and Epigenesis]]
# [[Russell1930 4|The Germ-Plasm Theory]]
# [[Russell1930 5|The Theory of the Gene]]
# [[Russell1930 6|Some Modern Epigenetic Theories]]
# [[Russell1930 7|Wilhelm Roux and the Mechanics of Development]]
# [[Russell1930 8|The Mnemic Theories]]
# [[Russell1930 9|Retrospect. The Use and Misuse of Abstraction]]
# [[Russell1930 10|The Organismal Point of View]]
# [[Russell1930 11|The Physiological Interpretation of the Cell Theory]]
# [[Russell1930 12|The Cell and the Organism]]
# [[Russell1930 13|The Cell in Relation to Development and Differentiation]]
# [[Russell1930 14|The Organism as a Whole in Development and Reproduction]]


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