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most eminent representatives of the French School of Psychology, has 

 presented in the above work the most important results of recent investi- 

 gations into the world of micro-organisms. The data of this depart- 

 ment of natural science lie scattered for the most part in isolated reports 

 and publications, and no attempt has hitherto been made to collate and 

 present them in a systematized form. Especial use has been made of 

 the investigations of Balbiani, Claparede and Lachmann, Maupas, 

 Ribot, Engelmann, Pouchet, Weber, Pfeffer, Kent, Dujardin, 

 Gruber, Nussbaum, Biitschli, Lieberkiihn. The cuts, eighteen in 

 number, are illustrative of the movements, nutrition, digestion, nuclear 

 phenomena, and fecundation of proto-organisms. The most interesting 

 chapters are those on fecundation, which demonstrate the same instincts 

 and vital powers to exist in spermatozoids as are found in animals of 

 higher organization. 



M. Binet's researches and conclusions show "that psychological 

 phenomena begin among the very lowest classes of beings ; they are 

 met with in every form of life from the simplest cell to the most com- 

 plicated organism." The author contests the theory of Romanes, who 

 assigns the first appearance of the various psychical and mental facul- 

 ties to different stages or periods in the scale of zoological development. 

 To M. Binet there is an aggregate of properties which exclusively per- 

 tain to living matter, the existence of which is seen in the lowest forms 

 of life as well as in the highest. 



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