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amination, that this cell colony is made by the same fam- 

 ily of cells, and that it is not a co-partnership of a plant 

 and an animal. This individual moves up into the sun- 

 light where it can manufacture starch, etc., from the raw 

 material found in the water by the aid of the sun's heat 

 or rays. It is necessary to get into the sunlight in order 

 to be able to make starch for food and the outside trans- 

 parent mobile skin like a worm's is simply a structure 

 made by the cells for the specific purpose for which it is 

 used. There is no difference in the general appearance of 

 a plant or animal cell. The cell can make either plant 

 or animal and will make animal parts such as will be 

 necessary for its use in its struggle for existence. They 

 call it a plant cell when the cell knows how to make food 

 and other building material from the raw material with 

 the aid of sunlight. The other cells are supposed to live 

 a parasitic life and to depend on the plant cells for their 

 food and building material. However, the distinction is 

 not reliable nor of any consequence, as we find the plant 

 cells also are at times carnivorous and live on insects and 

 >ther similar food, as for instance in the case of the 

 pitcher plant. 



Before closing this chapter I wish to again call the 

 reader's attention to the fact that the old idea of the law 

 of heredity, that like produces like, is of no particular 

 significance, but that the cell will produce such structures 

 or habitations as they think will be the most useful and 

 necessary in every particular case, and even change those 

 already produced, if they think best. 



Take the case for instance of the bee. Here we have 

 males, females and neutrals or workers. The female lays 

 the eggs that produce all these three kinds of individuals. 

 Mr. Haeckel states : "In the bees we have the remark- 

 able feature that it is only decided at the moment of 



