Desmidieae carne by Energenesis 



By ARTHUR M. EDWARDS, M. D. 



1 suppose that Evolulion is rccognized now as tìxed. Aristotle 

 is accordecl as the first to propound it and Buffon, Goethe, Lamarck, 

 St. Hilaire, Hutton, Lyell, Spencer, Huxley, Wallace and Darwin along 

 vvith a host of others are recconed as those who form the sank of 

 soldiers who battled for its recognition. But no one has proved the 

 Energenesis of things. 



Archebiosis is supposed to exist. But has not he proved. Even 

 Bastion the head and front of the army who recognised Archebiosis 

 has not proved the statements. They are proved now after sixty five 

 years of study in my paper on the Development of the Bacillaria 

 form an amoeboid form and that amoeboid form by energenesis in 

 the Nuova Notarisia, Serie XX, Ottobre 1909. I bave also proved it 

 in other plants and animals as 1 bave published it in various papers. 

 But the Desmidieae was a diljìcult subject to attack. 



First because they were so scarce in my gatherings and second 

 because they did not therefore correspond with their mode of co 

 ming. 1 bave now 1 Aprii 1910 got them dictinctly and 1 wish to 

 place them on record. 



The British Desmidieae by Edward Jenner, London, 1848 is 

 a classic production. 



1 bave seen several timcs an Amoeboid form develop from no- 

 thing vvhich can be seen with the highest powers, a 7ig t'"" ^^ ^" 

 inch first class of Leitz manufacture i 5oo diametcrs, of a microscope 



