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Vol. XI. 



TEENTON, N. J., DECEMBER, 1891. 



No. 12. 



ORIGIIiAL 



C°AnvNicATions 



CONSCIOUSNESS IN PROTOPLASM ; 



AND THE BACTERIA OF GERMINATION, MICROCOCCUS GERMINATUS, 

 N. S., WITH SOME OTHER NEW BACTERIA. 



DR. HENRY SHIMER. 



THE idea that there is a sense-emotion of some kind in plants 

 is not a new one. The sensitive plant, the continuity and 

 streaming of protoplasm are guide boards pointing that way. 

 Dr. Alfred C. Stokes, the Editor of The Microscope, in two late 

 and interesting editorial notes, has directed a line of thought, 

 based on observations, to his readers, well worth more than the 

 cost of his journal for years to come. 



Let us repeat the experiment of his suggesting, and learn 

 what we can from it. Now at ten P. M. the temperature of our 

 work room is 69° F. Here we have had a sprouting onion for 

 the last twenty-four hours, preparing it for work. 



In the common onion bulb there is a very thin pellicle, a tis. 

 gue-paper-like sheet between successive leaf layers or coats of 

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