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so as to produce a number of units, whose shape seemed 

 irregular owing to their being so densely packed. Other 



FIG. 59. 



Similar Organisms segmenting into brown Fungus-germs or growing 

 into Amoebae. ( X 1670.) 



a, a. Motionless corpuscles of various sizes. 



b. Similar corpuscles much increased in size. 

 c, d. Segmentation of such corpuscles into brown Fungus-germs. 



e. Appearance of germs when liberated. 



/, /. Development of the almost similar germs represented in Fig. 48, d. 

 g, b, i. Gradual conversion of other corpuscles, when transferred to 

 another fluid, into Amoebae. 



masses were seen in which considerable growth had 

 taken place these being nearly twice the size and 

 irregular in outline, though still of a faint brown 

 colour, and composed of a mass of densely packed 

 units, which were held together by an almost invisible 

 bounding membrane. And, lastly, in other places 

 small aggregations of brownish germs were seen, which 

 had been liberated by the solution of this very attenu- 



