Excerpt from Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, Vol. 17: Eighteenth Annual Meeting Held at Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., August 21, 22 and 23, 1895 The statements of a chemist, a physicist and a biologist are added. From the character and attainments of these men, their testimony, given after years of the most earnest investigation and reflection, is worthy of consideration: When Liebig was asked if he believed that a leaf or a flower could be formed or could grow by chemical forces, he answered: I would more readily believe that a book on chemistry or on botany could grow out of dead matter by chemical processes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.