CONTEXTS. 



PACK. 



I. METHODS 1 



Infusion 2 Cutting 6 



Moist chamber 3 Mounting 7 



Heatable stage. ., 3 Staining 9 



Electricity 4 Injections 10 



Preparation of fresh tissues. . . 4 How to ivor7c with the microscope 10 



Preservation of tissues 5 



II. GENERAL PROPERTIES OF LIVING MATTER 13 



Chemistry 13 Generation 15 



Manifestation of life 14 Historical sketch of the study of living 



Properties of living matter 14 matter 18 



III. THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE LIVING MATTER IN " PROTOPLASM ".. 21 



AmoebcB 21 Colorless blood-corpuscles of man 26 



Blood-corpuscles of the craw- Colostrum corpuscles 28 



fl* h 23 Conclusions 28 



Blood of the newt 25 



Analysis of the assertions made in 1873 30 



Only a part of "protoplasm " is Analysis of contraction and extension, 34 



living matter 33 Analysis of tetanus 35 



Chemical re-agents 33 Analysis of investing layers 35 



Analysis of rest 34 Analysis of vacuoles 36 



Comparison of amoeba and man 36 



The Structure of the Blood-corpuscles of the Oyster. By A. M. 



Hurlbutt 37 



The Structure and Growth of Some Forms of Mildew. By William 



Hassloch 40 



IV. THE PHASES OF DEVELOPMENT OF LIVING MATTER 46 



Amoeba* 46 Corpuscles of the medulla of bone 50 



Cartilage-corpuscles 47 Conclusions 51 



Bone-corpuscles 50 



The cell-theory in the light of these researches 53 



Structure of plants 57 Nomenclature 57 



The general constitution of the body, as recognized by single 



plastids 58 



V. THE STRUCTURE AND ORIGIN OF COLORED BLOOD-CORPUSCLES .... 64 



The Structure of Colored Blood-corpuscles. By Louis Elsberg. . 64 



Observations 64 Conclusions 94 



History 73 



