270 



77/c 



of the Organism 



of the sixteen-millimeter-long Porospora gig ante a described 

 by E. van Benedcn and discussed and figured by Biitsclili 

 shows us an ontogeny or individual development in one case 

 no less positive, and probably little less complex were all 



cl.m. 



10. COHVCMI.I.A .\H.-\IATA (ll!OM \VASI10I.K\VSKI, AKTKH LKC.KH). 



ep'in., epimerite. pr'm., protomerite. (Lin., deutomerite. n., nucleus. 



the details known, tlian tliat of many cndoparasitic worms.* 



But how could a zoologist hesitate to recognize that so 



elaborate an organism, as for example a Corycella, figure 



* With reference to the development of this species, it should he 

 remarked that although later researches have proved that the amoeboid 

 stages considered by van Beneden to belong to this series in reality have 

 nothing to do with this animal, yet the later stages leading up to the 

 final one, or "tropho/oite" seem not. to have been questioned; and these 

 constitute the evidence of tin onloi/cny with which we are now specially 

 concerned. 



