Bathybius

Thereafter 'Bathybius' disappeared from science. "

Evolution An Investigation and a Critique Theodore Graebner 1913

I opened to the first chapter, on "Protoplasm and the Cell," but I couldn't fix my thoughts on _Bathybius_ or the _Protomoeba_.

The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day Harriet Stark

The most celebrated instance of this was the story of Bathybius.

Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard, 1860-1933 1920

That which interested me in the matter was the apparent analogy of Bathybius with other well-known forms of lower life ....

Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard, 1860-1933 1920

But the specimens examined by himself and by Haeckel, who two years later published a full and detailed description of Bathybius, were seen only in a preserved state.

Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard, 1860-1933 1920

Now, Bathybius had often been pointed to as an example of almost primordial life, from which the evolutionary chain might have begun; and later controversialists, not acquainted with the precise limitations of the matter, seized upon the Bathybius recantation as a convenient stick with which to beat the Darwinian dog.

Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard, 1860-1933 1920

Speculative hopes or fears had nothing to do with the matter, and if Bathybius were brought up alive from the bottom of the Atlantic to-morrow the fact would not have the slightest bearing that I can discern upon Mr. Darwin's speculations, or upon any of the disputed problems of biology.

Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard, 1860-1933 1920

Such was Bathybius, which once raised such a commotion in the world of science, but which is never heard of or even alluded to in scientific circles today.

Evolution An Investigation and a Critique Theodore Graebner 1913

One of Mr. Murray's assistants poured a large quantity of spirits of wine into a bottle containing some pure sea-water, when lo! the wonderful protoplasm Bathybius appeared!

Evolution An Investigation and a Critique Theodore Graebner 1913

But it must be noted that the specimens examined by him and by Haeckel, who two years later published a full and detailed description of Bathybius, were seen in a preserved state.

The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900