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...Forced Movements. Loeb discovered that many animals, as well as plants, contain in their eyes and sometimes in their skin, photosensitive substances which are chemically altered by light. The products formed influence the contraction of the muscles. If the animal is illuminated on one side only, it is compelled to turn in the direction of the light and move forward in a straight line. Thus the marine worm is "positively heliotropic" (to sun-light). These reactions are quantitatively graded to the strength and distance of the light...
There is a good deal of sun-light after all in those sketches, perhaps at moments one misees; the sense of the pervading wetness of England. And one is trivially disappointed in the far views of Durham and Lincoln that there should be no sheep tranquilly grazing in the foreground. For sheep are an inevitable part of the landscape of the English cathedral close. But perhaps Mr. Conant's pencil rebelled at anything so soft, so woolly and so un-architectural as a sheep...
...Treasure Island with all its largess of romance falls short of exhausting the store. Some of the things Stevenson missed, Herman Melville found in the South Seas--and wrote "Typee." Days of the fear of sudden death; days of drowsy, warm forgetfulness; dark seas curling over glistening sands; amber sun-light through the palm-fronds, caressing the face of tough old chief, or wrinkled medicine-man, or startling the shadows from the soft eyes of Fayaway...
...carefully adjusted, the game continued. Soon the velvety sphere was in the possession of a wearer of the pink. As he ran down the field, the ease of his motion, the exquisite mould of his features, and the god like brilliancy of his diamond shirt stud glistening in the sun-light, drew forth long and continued applause. A touch-down was made, but, out of courtesty to Yale, who had not yet scored, no attempt was made for a goal. An intermission of half an hour followed, during which the contestants indulged in ice cream and ladies' fingers; ten minutes...