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things. All were motionless. Gradually, however, 

 they became less refractive, grew more and more 

 vesicular, and at last assumed a faint brov/n tint. 

 Although most of them remained as biloctilar bodies, 

 others grew and underwent further segmentation, so 

 as to produce tri- and quadrilocular bodies, or c septate 

 spores/ During all stages of growth, some of them 

 seemed to undergo an occasional process of fission. 

 They were watched for many days, but as the germs 

 displayed no tendency to develop J , some of them were 

 immersed in a little syrup upon a glass slip, protected 

 by a covering glass, and then set aside in a damp, 

 air-tight, developmental chamber. After about ten 

 days the germs were found to have become more 

 colourless, to have budded and multiplied, and in many 

 cases to have formed elegant mycelial filaments, such 

 as are represented in Fig. 59, /, /. 



These latter observations are interesting in many 

 respects. It is remarkable, for instance, that germs 

 of precisely the same appearance should arise after such 

 different methods by origin and growth in a formative 

 membrane in one case, and as the result of the seg- 

 mentation of a partially encysted Amoeba in another 

 case. Then, again, it is extremely interesting to find 

 that these parental Amcebse had, to all appearance, 

 arisen by a process of Archebiosis, although at one 



1 This has been very frequently observed on other occasions. See 

 P. 233. 



