OBSERVATIONS ON TRYPAXOPLASMA COXGEPJ. 



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Observations on Trypanoplasma congeri. 



Part I.— The Division of the Active Form. 



By 



C. H. illartiii, B.A., 



Denionstratur of Zoology, Uuiversitj of Glasgow. 



With Plate 21, and 1 text-figure. 



Contents. 



1. General Introduction . 



2. Methods 



o. Morphology of the active Trypanopla^m 



4. Division 



5. Conclusions . 



ti. Summary of Results . 



7. Litei'ature 



8. Explanation of Plate . 



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General Introduction. 



In the ' Zoologischer Auzeig-er,' Bd. xxxv, Nos. 14 aud 

 15, Ml-. Elinhirst and I publislied a short note on a ti-ypano- 

 plasraa parasitic in the stomach ot" the conger eel (Conger 

 niger). Up to the present, as far as I am aware, no 

 satisfactory account has been given of the division of any 

 trypanoplasma, and the only point in connection with this 

 process, on wliich previous workers have been unanimous, 

 seems to be the extreme rarity of dividing forms. By what 

 I must now legard as rather a fortunate accident, the second 

 conger which I chanced to examine was so lieavily infected 



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