120 THE PSYCHIC LIFE 



the old nucleus is reduced to a small pale and rumpled mass and 

 will shortly disappear. 



To recapitulate, then, if the opinion of M. Maupas (who did 

 not study this species, but like ones) be accepted, the nucleolus di- 

 vides into two capsules: the one, playing the part of a male ele- 

 ment, is exchanged between the two animals in conjugation, and 

 proceeds to fuse with one of the capsules derived from the division 

 of the nucleolus of the other animal; the other capsule, which acts 

 the part of a female element fuses in the same way with the male 

 element coming from the other animal. The result of that fusion 

 is a compound capsule which, undergoing a process of division, pro- 

 duces the new nucleus and the new nucleolus of the animal fecun- 

 dated. 



