Adaptation and immunity of lower organisms to ethyl alcohol

Abstract

A phenomenon of surpassing biological interest is the adjustment of living substance to its surroundings.That living things should so act as to promote their own welfare is indeed wonderful; that such acts are common is evident on every hand.The darkened plant creeping toward the needed light, the arctic hare at the approach of winter changing its coat of gray for one of white, living tissue in battle against arsenic or alcohol or toxins securing life against an amount perchance many times in excess A beautiful case of adaptation has been shown by Hafkine.'In his experiments a drop of natural water containing different For a reference to the literature, see Davenport and Castle.