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or position, excepting that they all have a rounded form, 
and the same clear and pale aspect. By a careful adjust- 
ment of the focus, rows of sharply defined lines placed 
close together, and at right angles with the direction of the 
lens-fibres, resembling the marking of very fine voluntary 
muscular fibre, will be visible. (See c¢, fig. 10.) These 
lines, however, are sometimes first distinguishable as long 
closely set striz, running more or less parallel with the 
surface of the lens. ‘This is not their natural appearance, 
but arises from the rows being pressed together, and thus 
the lines of several are made to appear continuous. Such 
are the appearances visible beneath the capsule of the 
Fig. 10. 
lens prior to its becoming ruptured. ‘After this, all the 
appearances above described become much more distinct, 
and the causes producing them obvious. Fig. 10 is an 
accurate representation of these parts, as seen an hour or 
two after the bursting of the capsule, magnified three 
hundred diameters, and drawn with the camera lucida. 
In this stage of the examination, the oily-looking globules, 
in their turn, have become very much enlarged, by the 
endosmose still going on. These are indicated in the 
