Athel wrote:
"Years ago J. B. S. Haldane (or maybe his father, the physiologist J.
S.
Haldane) wrote an article called "On being the right size" that dealt
with many of these questions, but I don't remember if it discussed
metabolic rate as such."
David Fell wrote:
It was J B S Haldane. The essay was one of many
popular articles he wrote.
A collection called "On being the right size and other essays" was
published by Oxford University Press in the 1980s.
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If folk don't know it it's a nice book, so here's the full reference:
Haldane =A0 J. B. S. =A0 [John Burdon Sanderson] =A0 1892-1964
Title:=A0On being the right size and other essays =A0 J.B.S. Haldane =A0
edited by John Maynard Smith Publisher:=A0Oxford =A0 Oxford University
Press =A0 1985.
Interestingly, the John Burdon Sanderson who is the originator of
JBS's name was I think JBS's grandfather, and anyway was a
microbiologist who discovered the antibacterial action of Penicillium
spp (as did Lister in the same year, 1871), some 58 years before
Fleming's more celebrated discovery [Kell, D.B. (1987) Forces,
fluxes and the control of microbial growth and metabolism. The
twelfth Fleming lecture. J. Gen. Microbiol. 133, 1651-1665]. A lack
of knowledge of the literature is not a new phenomenon.....
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