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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part II Natural Science 1895

1896

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL GEOROE RANKIN M. D. [Read August 76.] In these modern times when so much advancis being made in medicine in the direction of the establishment of immunity against various toxic principles by the gradual habituation of the system to increasing doses of the virus and then utilising the serum of the blood of animals in whom immunity has thus been established for the Vacc[...] The latest development of the principle of antitoxins immunity is the application of the method by which their presence in the serum is ensured to snake poisoning. [...] In the present paper it is proposed to provide diagnoses of those forms in as nearly as may be the style of the diagnoses in the Flora of British India ; to obviate the possibility of confusion between the forms now described and those given in the Flora keys have been prepared showing the relationships of all the Indian species in each genus. [...] To assure himself of the probable validity of the species here prposed as new and of the accuracy of the nomenclature of those prevously described the writer has compared examples of each with the material of the order contained in a number of European collections. [...] It is of interest in connection with the theory that the people of China first learned the use of Opium and first obtained the Opium Poppy itself from India to find from a careful examination of specimens of the Poppy cultivated for ()plum in China that are preserved in the magnificent botanical collections of London Paris and Genova that this Poppy belongs to it race quite distinct from the I
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Pages
286
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
Segment Pages Author Actions
A Contribution to the History of Arificial Immunity—By Surgeom Lieutenant-Colonel George Ranking M.D.
299-302 The Natural History Secretary view
Noviciæ Indicæ IX. Some additional Papaveracæ—By D. Prain
303-327 The Natural History Secretary view
On a new Species of Renanthera—By G.King and D.Prain Royal Botanic Garden Calcutta
328-344 The Natural History Secretary view
Contributions to the theory of Warning Colours and Mimicry No. I. Experiments with a Babbler (Crateropus Canorus).—By Frank Finn B.A. F.Z.S. Deputy Superintendent of the Indian Museum
344-356 The Natural History Secretary view
A List of the Butterflies of Sumatra with Cspecial Reference to the Species Occurring in the north-east of the Island—By Lionel De Nice Ville F.E.S. C.M.Z.S. &C. and Hofrath Dr. L. Martin
357-556 The Natural History Secretary view
Index
557-583 The Natural History Secretary view

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