CANNIBALISM IN AMOEBA 



Text-fig. B. 



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Outlines of an extruded sphere (rounded-off amoeba), drawn with 

 the camera lucida at the intervals of time stated in the figure, to 

 show the amoeboid movements often performed by the sphere 

 after it had been extruded. 



appearance of the pseudopodia the number of contractile 

 vacuoles might vary from one to eight, it had always been 

 reduced to two at the most, by the time that the amoeboid 

 activity of the sphere had been well established. 



