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The fifth section includes the Physiophilosophical systems, with diagrams of Oken's and Fitzinger's classifications, and a special article for the circular groups of McLeay.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various
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Notes, Selections from Oken's Correspondence, and Portrait of the Professor.
Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta W. Cope Devereux
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As an example of the method of treatment adopted we may take Oken's matured account of the composition of the cranial vertebræ, as given in the English translation of his _Lehrbuch_.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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After Oken's work the vertebral theory was taken up generally by both the German and the French anatomists.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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But he was, though a staunch transcendentalist, an eclectic of the older ideas current in his time; for he picked out what was best in the older systems -- Cuvier's teleology, Geoffroy's principle of connections, Oken's idea of the serial repetition of parts.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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Although fascinated and inspired by Oken's _à priori_ biology (built upon morphological ideas which had not yet been established, but had, in part, been rightly divined) the two young naturalists were not carried away by it, probably because they were such keen and conscientious observers, and were kept in close communion with work-a-day nature.
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With the demolition of Oken's theory fell the superstructure raised by its chief supporter, Owen, "archetype" and all.
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900
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Another fragment of autobiography, going on to a further period of his life, occurs in a long letter to the philosopher Krause, [85] dated Keilhau, 24th March, 1828, in reply to an article written by Krause five years before (1823) in Oken's journal, the well-known Isis
Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel Froebel, Friedrich, 1782-1852 1889
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Oken's answer gave us but cold comfort; nevertheless, he promised to write at once to Humboldt in our behalf.
Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885
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The primitive or primordial kidneys of the amniote embryo were formerly called the "Wolffian bodies," and sometimes "Oken's bodies."
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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