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P.X. P.M. 7,3. P.M.] P.M. P.K..

LK.. FAM.AUM.

Kowloon.Dep. 6.40 8.08

Yaumsti Dep. 6.46

Shatin...Dep. 7,01)

Taipo Dep.7.15

Talpo

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Fauling Dep. 7.50

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0.25 10.08 13.13 123

9.38 10.2012,30 1,35

953 10.33 12.45 1.43 -

9.58 10.37 12.47 1.5%

Bous. & Holla only

4.38) 1.48) 7.43

4.80 6.00 7.55

6.04 6.13 8.08

10.10 10.47 12.47 2,02 -

Sheang

shui...Dep. 725

Shum-

chun...A. 7.41 8.45

-5,08 6.17 8.19 — 5,18) 6.97) 8.11

5.23 8.328.28 9.02 10.15 10.5 1.02 2.07 3.09- 9.13 10.21 10,48 1,08 2.13 3.154.00 8.99 6,388.81

Canton...Af

12.05

5.48

-

7.18

Ceaton ...Dep,

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8.10

3.35

11.27 11,47 253 4.89 5.47

7.07

11.55 3.01 4.48 | 654 19.00 8.00 4.50 5.58 12.11 3.175.00 8.09

7,14

Shumchun...Dep. 7.17 9.03 10.34 Sheunghui Dep. 125 ghi 10.43 7,30 8.15 10.47 TaipoMarket.Dep. 7,40 3.28 10,37 Taipo

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Fanling

Dep...

Shalin ...Dep. 7,578,44 1114 Yanmati...Dep. 8.11 8.58 11.28

12,16 3,12 6.04 6.13 12.308,385.17 8.26 12,429,486.99 6:38

Kowloon Art. 8.17 9.03 11.32 12.07 19.48 34 5.35 6.44 7.22

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HOW NERVES CONDUCT MESSAGES TO THE BRAIN,

MECHANICAL INTERPRETATIONS OF LIFE'S PHENOMENA.

STEADY ADVANCE OF PHYSIOLOGICAL RESEARCH.

THE

INTIMATE NATURE OF MATTER.

Colloid Chemistry. For some years there has been a tendency, not only in Britain, to

The difference used to be attribut depreciate mechanical interpretared to vital action. But advances tions of the phenomena of life and is colloid chemistry and the vary to exalt a dualistic conception in large body of recent knowledge re- which it is supposed that entities garding surface action have dis such as life and mind happen to placed the hypothesis of vitalism. use what we know as matter for and have shown that many phenc their purposes, but might possibly mens, which could not be explain use some other vehicle, or, indeed, ed by chemistry alone, find an easy exist without a vehicle.

but equally material explanation in a combination of chemistry sad

In it more extreme forms this dualism becomes nearly an inver-physics

character of the impulses which, convey the messages are now being Are clearly of n studied and mechanical type.

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Iron Wire in Acid, A very close model of the nerve fibres along which messages trave! is found in an iron wire, immersed in strong nitric acid, its surface thus becoming coated with a layer of passive" iron which prevents the acid from acting any further. If the film of passive iron is de

sion of the monism of last century, Sir Charles Sherrington's Tengstroyed at any point, the difference and supposes matter to be merely and brilliant work on brain and of potential between the active and nerves has led to a constant in-passive iron produces an electric. an aspect or presentation of life- mind. In "War and Peace"

crease in the discovery of functiods eurrant which has the effect of de- | Tolstoy - describes the prevalence, that are due to mechanism, and has stroying the passive iron in the during the Napoleonic Wars, of insisted on the structural par next section of the wire, and at the similar bias in Russia, where, how-allelism of those parts of the brain same time of restoring it where it

to which menta! function can be was first- destroyed." ever, it appeared in cruder, forms.

aysigned with those parts of the

The nervous system which are outside mind and consciousness.

Physical Theories.

arta

of surface change The contemporary. tendency has

spreads down the wire accompanied by an alectric change which is a found its opportunity, if not its

The trend has been, not to the close copy of the action current in cause, in the physical discoveries vi the intimate nature of matter discovery of new vital facultiesa nerve. When the impulse passes nerve fibre, there and the expansion of physical which cannot yet be explained by down, the

be a definite series theory which would seem to resolve mechanism, but to a reduction of appears to the material world into mathema. those which cannot be so explained.cf changes following one another tical formule. It might have been Conduction of Zervons Impulsss. with mechanical regularity, changes which can be made to repeat again supposed that this transformation The conception that intelligent and again, yielding similar mea- of the conception of matter from minds can communicate in some

surements whenever there are in- set of inert, unrelated other way than by messages from being a

struments sensitive enough to re- counters to being a system of the brain by the nerves to the

cord them. systems in movement would have | organs which produce visible sights made it easier to guess at life as

or sounds on the one hand, to be being оде of the outcrops of picked up by the eyes and ears of material change.

the recipient and sent from them But, in fact, this has not hap-by nerves to his brain, has been pened. It is more fashionable to easier to hold because of ignorance think the other way round and to of what actually takes place when suggest that matter itself is or ganism.

By the use of the triode valve amplifier the smallest possible electric changes can not only be de tected but even demonstrated on a loud speaker. In the case of sen- sory impulses, the stimulus can be as to affect only a arranged so single endorgan and, therefore, a In two recent discourses, deliver: single "nerve fibre. The impulses ed at the Royal Instintion and are shown to have a frequency vary. subsequently aummarized in Nature,ing from five to 150 a second, and Professor E. D. Adrian has describ. there is already some reason to sup-

a nerve conducts a message.

with definite time relations; there Each impulse is a distinct change

is no continuous activity, but be tween each impulse there must be a time for recovery, just as a gun has to be re-loaded bofore it can fie fired again.

None the less, the more notable advances in physiology and the

ed recent advances in knowledge pose that the impulses from differ stendy drift of physiological re-tending to show that the conduction eat sense organs are not exactly search appear to be towards refer of nervous impulses is a definite alike. ring more and more vital pheno-other physical phenomena, depend physical phenomenon parallel with mena to what last century woulding on a definite mechanism. have been accepted. definitely as Professor Adrian, it is true. is mechanical. Many processes of the careful to lay a peace-offering be body are concerned with chemical fore the altar of vitalism, for he reactions, but it was gradually says that emotione and thoughts are found that there were differences ber"in a category outside the range tween the changes and exchanges of mechanical explanation," and of gases and solutions that could for that reason "will never be fally a definite mechanism, comparable be induced in the laboratory, and explainable in terms of physics and in every" way with phenomena those that actually took place in chemistry." But the apparatus by recognized the living body.

"Within the body, at least, brain messages to or fro travel, only by

which the messages travel and the chemical.

purely physico-

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