

THE 



BEGINNINGS OF LIFE 



BEING 

 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE NATURE, 

 • MODES OF ORIGIN AND TRANSFORMATIONS 



OF 



LOWER ORGANISMS. 



H. CHARLTON BASTIAN, M. A., M.D., F. R. S. 



Felloiv of the Royal College of Physicians ; 



Professor of Pathological Anatomy in University College, London; 



Physician to University College Hospital; 



Assistant Physician to the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic. 



IN TWO VOLUMES. 

 VOL. II. 



WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. 



MACMILLAN AND CO. 



1872. 



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