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with great clearness. The myxomycetes are, in one condition, 

 masses of vegetable protoplasm, the movements and other 

 characteristics of which were shown to resemble strongly 

 those of the protozoa. DeBary's great fame as a botanist 

 has made his name widely known. 



In 1858 Virchow also, by his extensive studies in the 

 pathology of living cells, added one more link to the chain 



Fig. 87. — Heinrich A. de Bary, 1831-1888. 



that was soon to be recognized as encircling the new domain 

 of modern biology. 



Schultze. — ^As the culmination of a long period of work, 

 Max Schultze, in 1861, placed the conception of the identity 



