Véase Bashforth and Adams, Theoretical Forms of Drops, etc., Cambridge, 1883.
Woods, R. H., On a Physical Theorem applied to tense Membranes, Journ. of Anat. and Phys. XXVI, pp. 362–371, 1892. A similar investigation of the tensions in the uterine wall, and of the varying thickness of its muscles, was attempted by Haughton in his Animal Mechanics, pp. 151–158, 1873.
Esto corresponde a una determinación de las presiones normales (en sístole) por Krohl, como estando en la proporción de 1£:£6ôñ8.
Cf. Schwalbe, G., Ueber Wechselbeziehungen und ihr Einfluss auf die Gestaltung des Arteriensystem, Jen. Zeitschr. XII, p. 267, 1878, Roux, Ueber die Verzweigungen der BlutgefûÊssen des Menschen, ibid. XII, p. 205, 1878; Ueber die Bedeutung der Ablenkung des ArterienstûÊmmen bei der Astaufgabe, ibid. XIII, p. 301, 1879; Hess, Walter, Eine mechanisch bedingte GesetzmûÊssigkeit im Bau des BlutgefûÊsssystems, A. f. Entw. Mech. XVI, p. 632, 1903; Thoma, R., Ueber die Histogenese und Histomechanik des BlutgefûÊsssystems, 1893.
Essays, etc., editados por Owen, I, p. 134, 1861.
On the Functions of the Heart and Arteries, Phil. Trans. 1809, pp. 1–31, cf. 1808, pp. 164–186; Collected Works, I, pp. 511–534, 1855. The same lesson is conveyed by all such work as that of Volkmann, E. H. Weber and Poiseuille. Cf. Stephen Hales’ Statical Essays, II, Introduction: “Especially considering that they [i.e. animal Bodies] are in a manner framed of one continued Maze of innumerable Canals, in which Fluids are incessantly circulating, some with great Force and Rapidity, others with very different Degrees of rebated Velocity: Hence, etc.”
«Sizes» es una enmienda editorial de Owen, la cual parece ampliamente justificada.
CAPÍTULO XVI SOBRE LA FORMA Y LA EFICIENCIA MECÁNICA
Para una clasificación más elaborada, en colores crípticos, procrípticos, anticrípticos, apatéticos, epigámicos, semáticos, episemáticos, aposemáticos, etc., véase Colours of Animals de Poulton (Int. Scientific Series, LXVIII), 1890; véase también Meldola, R., Variable Protective Colouring in Insects, P.Z.S. 1873, págs. 153–162, etc.