TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



I. PHYSICAL LIFE AND ITS BASIS. 



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Introduction ... ... .., ... ... ... ... ... I 



Professor Owen's New Views ... ... ... ... ... ... 5 



Note on Ciliary Action ... ... ... ... ... ... 7 



Mr. Grove on Experimental Organism ... ... ... ... 9 



The term "Protoplasm" II 



Huxley's " Endoplast" and "Periplastic Substance" 13 



Protoplasm the Physical Basis of Life ... ... ... ... 16 



Bathybius of Huxley ... 22 



Dr. Wallich's Observations ... ... ... ... ... ... 24 



Chemistry of Protoplasm ... ... ... ... ... ... 25 



Properties of Matter ... ... ... ... .. ... ... 27 



A quosity and Vitality ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 28 



Summary of the Things included under " Protoplasm" ... ... 29 



II. GERMINAL, OR LIVING MATTER, AND 

 FORMED MATTER. 



Nothing that Lives is Alive in every Part ... .. ... ... 33 



Germinal Matter and Formed Material ... ... ... ... 35 



The Terms Living and Formed Matter and Pabulum ... ... 37 



General Characters of Germinal Matter ... ... ... ... 38 



Amoeba... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 39 



On Vital Movements 40 



Mucus Corpuscle ... . 42 



Of New Centres Nuclei and Nucleoli 45 



