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Our experiments, however, afford positive evidence 

 that new-born specks of living matter may assume 

 other forms than those already referred to. In Ex- 

 periment ^, the simplest forms of Amaha were found, 

 and also flagellated Monads in company with various 

 kinds of Torula corpuscles. These, then, are also or- 

 ganic forms which are capable of resulting from the 

 direct unfolding of some specks of new-born living 

 matter. The acceptance of such a view is rendered 

 much more easy than it would otherwise have been, by 

 the following considerations : 



When enumerating the modes of variation obser- 

 vable amongst Torul<e^ we might almost have added 

 that some were flagellated and active, whilst ' others 

 were non-flagellated and inactive. And, however fun- 

 damental such distinctions may seem to be, their 

 importance must be diminished in the minds of those 

 who know that two forms of Fungi, in other respects 

 almost indistinguishable from one another, may have 

 reproductive units which are dissimilar in this re- 



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