bathybius

We can no longer mention as belonging to the bridges which are said to lead from the organic world to the inorganic, the often-named _bathybius_, discovered by Huxley, and so strongly relied upon for the mechanical explanation of life -- a slimy net-like growth, which covers the rocks in the great depths of the ocean.

The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality Rudolf Schmid

Organic _form_ which, in its lowest stages, is so simple, like the moneron and the bathybius, and which stands still lower than a cell, is, moreover, something which there is no difficulty in explaining from inorganic matter.

The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality Rudolf Schmid

The lowest and most formless moneron is the bathybius, discovered by Thomas Huxley, a network of recticular mucus, which in the greatest depths of the sea, as far down as 7,000 metres, covers stone fragments and other objects, but are also found in less depths, in the Mediterranean Sea, for instance.

The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality Rudolf Schmid

I mixed up the intellect with a kind of scientific jargon about protoplasm and natural selection and the survival of the fittest, and bathybius, which was then all the fashion; so I promptly devoted myself to De Guérin.

Confessions of a Book-Lover Maurice Francis Egan 1888

The notion of matter being ever changed except by other matter in another state is so shocking to the intellectual conscience that it may be dismissed without discussion; yet if bathybius had not been promptly dealt with, it must have become apparent even to the British public that there were indeed but few steps from protoplasm, as the only living substance, to vital principle.

Luck or Cunning? Samuel Butler 1868

Our biologists therefore stifled bathybius, perhaps with justice, certainly with prudence, and left protoplasm to its fate.

Luck or Cunning? Samuel Butler 1868

About the same time bathybius, which at one time bade fair to supplant it upon the throne of popularity, died suddenly, as I am told, at

Luck or Cunning? Samuel Butler 1868

The fashion of taking it for granted that the whole world is fast going over to the gospel of ganglia and bathybius, of _vox populi et præterea nihil_, is not confined to the 'fanatics of impiety' in France.

France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 William Henry Hurlbert 1861

For after scientists like K.E. von Baer and others had already declared it probable that this bathybius is only a precipitate of organic relics, no less a person than the discoverer of the bathybius, in the "Annals of

The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality Rudolf Schmid