I REGENERATION ANIMALS AND PLANTS 35 



Regeneration. — Finally, experiments have been made by 

 several obse^^■ers as to the effects of removing pa,rts of l*rotozoa, 

 to see how far regeneration can take place. The chief results 

 are as follows : — 



1. A nucleated portion may regenerate comphtehj, if of 

 sufficient size. Consequently, multinucleate forms, such as 

 Actinosphaerium (Heliozoa, Fig. 19, p. T-j, may be cut into a 

 number of fragments, and regenerate completely. In Ciliata, such 

 as Stentor (Fig. 59, p. 156), each fragment must possess a portion 

 of the meganucleus, and at least one micronucleus (p. 145), and, 

 moreover, must possess a certain minimum size. A Eadiolarian 

 "central-capsule" (p. 75) with its endoplasm and nucleus may 

 regenerate its ectoplasm, but the isolated ectoplasm being non- 

 nucleate is doomed. A " central capsule " of one species introduced 

 into the ectoplasm of another, closely allied, did well. All non- 

 nucleate pieces may exhibit characteristic movements, but appear 

 unable to digest ; and they survive only a short time.^ 



" Animals " and " Plants " 



Hitherto we have discussed the cell as if it were everywhere 

 an organism that takes in food into its substance, the food being 

 invariably " organic " material, formed by or for other cells ; 

 such nutrition is termed '" holozoic." There are, however, limits to 

 the possibilities in this direction, as there are to the fabled 

 capacities of the Scillonians of gaining their precarious liveli- 

 liood Ijy taking in one another's washing. For part of the food 

 material taken in in this way is applied to the supply of the 

 energies of the cell, and is consequently split up or oxidised into 

 simpler, more stable bodies, no longer fitted for food ; and of the 

 matter remaining to be utilised for building up the organism, a 

 certain proportion is always Masted in by-products. Clearly, 

 then, the sup])ly of food under such conditions is continually 

 lessening in the universe, and we have to seek for a manufactory 

 of food-material from inorganic materials : this is to be found in 

 those cells that are known as " vegetal," in the widest sense of 



1 See Gruber in lUol. Crnl.ralh. iv. ]>. 710, v. ]>. 137 (1884-6), in 7/(;r. Gcs. Frcihurg, 

 i. ii. 1886-7 ; Verworn (reference on ji. 16) ; F. R. Lillie in Journ. Morph. xii. 1896, 

 p. 239 ; Nussbauni in^rcvV. laikr. Ana/,, xxvi. 1886, \>. 485 ; Balbiani in IlccucU Zool. 

 Suisse, V. 1888, in Zool. Anz. 1891, pp. 312, 323, in Arch. Micro(jr. iv. v. 1892-3. 

 For Higher Organisms especially see T. H. ^loigan, JlcycncrcUion, 1901. 



