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BIOLOGY AND ITS MAKERS 



with great clearness. The myxomycetes are, in one conditioi 

 masses of vegetable protoplasm, the movements and oth< 

 characieristics of which were shown to resemble strongly 

 those of the protozoa. De Bary's great fame as a botanist 

 has made his name widely known. 



In 1858 Virchow also, by his extensive studies in the 

 pathology of living cells, added one more link to the chain 



Fig. 87. — Heinrich A. de Bary, 1831-ii 



that was soon to be recognized as encircling the new domah 

 of modern biology. 



Schultze. — As the culmination of a long period of work, 

 Max Schultze, in i86t, placed the conception of the identity 



