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THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE. 



flakes were noticed, and also a slight general turbidity 

 of the fluid. The turbidity and deposit having slightly 

 increased., the flask was opened on the twelfth day. 

 The vacuum was found to have been only very slightly 

 impaired ; and the reaction of the fluid was still very 

 strongly acid. 



On microscopical examination of some of the 

 deposit there were found., amongst granular flakes and 

 aggregations, a large number of Torula cells of most 

 various shapes and sizes ; also, in the midst of granule- 

 heaps, many large, rounded or ovoidal, densely granular, 



FIG. 23. 



Organisms found in an Infusion of Hay, plus one-twentieth part 

 of Carbolic Acid. ( X 800.) 



nucleated bodies whose average size was y^oV' in 

 diameter, though there were many much larger, and 

 others even less than half this size. Intertwined 

 amongst the granular matter also were a large number 

 of algoid filaments T^XTO (/ m diameter, containing seg- 

 mented protoplasmic contents. There were also in the 



