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colonel looking up suddenly exclaimed Crawford
One night as I sat making a fair copy of a proclamation, the colonel, looking up suddenly, exclaimed, "Crawford, would you like to go to Lima?" "To Lima, sir?"
— from At the Point of the Sword by Herbert Hayens

cortical layer under such external conditions
Such an ontogeny would, for instance, occur if one of the lowest Monoplastides, such as a Moneron, were to develope into a higher form, such as one of the Flagellata, with mouth, eye-spot, and cortical layer, under such external conditions that it would be advantageous for the existence of its species that it should no longer reproduce itself by simple fission, but that the periodical formation of a cyst (which was perhaps previously part of the life-history) should be associated with the occurrence of numerous divisions within the cyst itself, and with the formation of germs.
— from Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems Authorised Translation by August Weismann


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