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As reported some months ago1, measurements of the colloid osmotic pressure of the body fluids of marine animals gave results which arranged themselves in the order of phylogenetic development. This fact suggested that there exists a rather close relation between the general organisation of an animal and the colloid osmotic pressure of its body fluids. Such a hypothesis requires further confirmation; there arose, in particular, the important question whether this relation subsists when the organisms compared are living in a different surrounding medium.
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NATURE, 136, 757 (1935). Compt. rend. Soc. Biol., 120, 303, 305 (1935).
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MEYER, P. Colloid Osmotic Pressure of the Hæmolymphs of some Terrestrial Invertebrates. Nature 137, 401–402 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137401a0
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