Excerpt from The Biology of Death: Being a Series of Lectures Delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston in December 1920 What I tried to do in these lectures was to bring together under a unified viewpoint some of the more im portant contributions which have been made to our know ledge of natural death, from three widely scattered sources: namely general biology, experimental biology, and statistical and actuarial science. It will be obvious to anyone who knows the literature from these fields regarding natural death and ...
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Excerpt from The Biology of Death: Being a Series of Lectures Delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston in December 1920 What I tried to do in these lectures was to bring together under a unified viewpoint some of the more im portant contributions which have been made to our know ledge of natural death, from three widely scattered sources: namely general biology, experimental biology, and statistical and actuarial science. It will be obvious to anyone who knows the literature from these fields regarding natural death and the duration of life that in such an amount of space as is here used, no one could hope to cover a field so wide with anything approaching completeness. To do so would require a series of volumes in place of one small one. But this has in no wise been my object; I have instead hoped that the very incomplete ness itself of this work, necessitated by my limitations of space and knowledge, might stimulate the reader to penetrate for himself further into the literature of this fascinating and important field of biology. To help him to start upon this excursion a brief bibliography is appended. It by no means completely covers the field, but may perhaps serve as an introduction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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