THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE. 



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two or three occasions bodies (about rsW in diameter) 

 which seemed to have had the same origin, and in 



FIG. 78. 

 Transformations of the substance of Vaucheria. ( X 600.) 



a. Portion of small filament in which contents are individualizing them- 



selves into amoeboid masses (diagrammatic). 



b. One of masses containing green chlorophyll moving slowly by 



means of pseudopodia. 



c. Almost motionless amoeboid mass with partly decolourized chlo- 



rophyll. 



d. Similar mass with numerous motionless rays. 



e. Similar body in later stage as an active and wholly decolourized 



Actinophrys. 



/. Another mass after retraction of its ray assumes the habit and move- 

 ments of an Amoeba. 



which the chlorophyll was still unchanged, were seen 

 moving about pretty actively within the filament; 

 though it was not ascertained whether these move- 



