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that the transforming cytoplasmic substance is not actively 

 participating in the transformation? After what has been 

 said in the preceding pages, the reader will not doubt what 



FIOtTlE 32. EPIMERITE OF BELOIDES FIRMUS ( AFTER LAKKESTER). 



the author's reply is to this query. The activity of the nu- 

 cleus would furnish no evidence whatever for a denial. 

 As bearing on the question of whether the development 



FIGURE 33. EPIMERITE OF COMELOIDES CRINITUS ( AFTER LAKKESTER). 



of the epimerite of gregarines can rightly be regarded as 

 an exhibition of heredity, I present in figures 28 to 32, il- 

 lustrations of the great variety of form of this organ in 



