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behaviour of the same bacteria in different nutrient 

 solutions suggests itselt' in illustration, 



Tlce Biomore. — Microscopical examination of living 

 matter, which appears as an emulsion of granules suspended 

 in a fluid medium, leads naturally to the conception of the 

 biomore. Each biomore is a particle composed of bioraole- 

 cules. " Thus the fine granulations forming the threads 

 of protoplasm, the microsomata of chromatin, of linin, 

 paralinin, perhaps the central corpuscles, micrococci, 

 perhaps also some vegetable plastids, are all probably 

 biomores." Every cell is an aggregate of biomores. 



Morphologically the biomores correspond pretty nearly 

 with the plastid'ides of Maggi and Hfeckel, the jJ^'otoplasmic 

 spherules of Kunstler, microsomes of many biologists, the 

 granula or hiohlasts of Altmann. 



Giglio-Tos' biomore theory is not open to the same 

 objections as Altmann's bioblast theory, which he tells us 

 he accepts in toto. 



Altmann, under his granula conception, includes all 

 kinds of different elements, "not only the usual microsomata 

 in cells, but chloroplastids, pigment granules, lamellar 

 particles in yolk of eggs, oil droplets and fat droplets, 

 particles of ingested food, undigested food stuff's, products 

 of cellular metabolism." Giglio-Tos clearly distinguishes 

 between the biomores and products of molecular secretion 

 and disassimilation, and nutrient substances. 



Physiologically the biomores differ from all the granula 

 and morphological conceptions, for, while in the latter the 

 properties of assimilation and reproduction are bound up 

 in the structure of the particles, they are in no way 

 explained by them. 



On the other hand, the faculties of assimilation and 

 reproduction, i.e. of living, are faculties in no way acquired 

 by 'the constitution of the biomore. The faculties are 

 inherent in the very parts which compose it, — in the 

 biomolecules, which would be equally living even if isolated. 



Erom direct examination and from theoretical considera- 

 tions, it is concluded that the biomolecules constituting the 

 biomores are not all alike. The biomolecules are regarded 

 as being bound together into biomores after the same 

 manner as inorganic molecules in molecular combinations 



