Lorande Loss Woodruff

Lorande Loss Woodruff (July 14, 1879 – June 23, 1947) was an American biologist, professor of Protistology protozoology at Yale University, and author of the textbook Foundations of Biology, which went through 6 editions and was widely used in the 1920s and 1930s. He was elected in 1908 a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and in 1924 a Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Quotes Paramecium Paramaecia excrete substances which are toxic to themselves when present in their environment, and these substances are more effective when the organisms are confined in limited volumes of Microbiological culture culture fluid. The effect of excretion products of Paramaecium on its rate of reproduction Journal of Experimental Zoology 10 4 May 1911 557-581 https://books.google.ht/books?id=1r8UAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA581 (quote from p. 581) Protein Proteins invariably consist of the elements carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and sulfur, and frequently phosphorus and iron. Examples are Albumin albumin of the Egg white white of egg, Casein casein of milk, Gluten gluten of cereals, and Myosin myosin of lean meat. Foundations of Biology 4th New York Macmillan Company 1930 https://books.google.com/books?id=c8T5df6hpSsC&pg=PA22 22 (501 pages; 1st edition 1922; 2nd edition 1923; 3rd edition 1927; 5th edition 1936; 6th edition 1941) Chapter VI. Biology in The Development of the Sciences (1923) With the work of Valerius Cordus Cordus, Vesalius, and Harvey, biologists had again laid hold of the great scientific tools—observation, experiment, induction—which since have not slipped from their grasp. Chapter VI. Biology The Development of the Sciences 215–259 1923 6 chapters from 6 different lectures delivered in 1920 at Yale University by Ernest William Brown, Henry Andrews Bumstead, John Johnston, Frank Schlesinger, Herbert Ernest Gregory, & Lorande Loss Woodruff Yale University Press https://books.google.com/books?id=xNi4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA225 (327 pages; edited by Lorande Loss Woodruff; quote from p. 225 ) The earliest clear appreciation of the importance of studying living nature with Scientific instrument instruments which increase the powers of the senses in general and of vision in particular, is found in a remarkable book, the Micrographia of Robert Hooke (1635-1703), published by the Royal Society Royal Society of London in 1665, which is a demonstration of the advantages to be gained by the use of artificial devices of precision. p. 226 Darwin spent the twenty years subsequent to the publication of the Origin of Species, as he had spent the preceding twenty years, in study and research, the results of which appeared in nine additional volumes. Three of these perhaps may be singled out as primarily an elaboration of the Origin: The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication (1868), The Descent of Man (1871), and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals The Expression of the Emotions (1872). p. 258 External links Category:1879 births Category:1947 deaths Category:Academics from the United States Category:Biologists from the United States Category:Columbia University alumni Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Category:Science authors from the United States Category:Scientists from New York City Category:Yale University faculty