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two are anatomically entirely distinct. But 

 it is something to the point to note, as 

 Cope did years ago, that there is at least 

 one case of a very precise connexion between 

 two distinct tissues which is perhaps quite 

 as wonderful as the connexion between 

 body-plasm and germ-plasm and hardly less 

 mysterious — viz. the adjustment of skin- 

 colouration to ground-surface brought about 

 through the organs of sight. Of this the 

 chameleon furnishes the most familiar but 

 not the most impressive instance. I came 

 the other day across an account of some 

 experiments that seem clearly to imply 

 the intervention in some way of conscious- 

 ness, in bringing about this adjustment — 

 an intervention which Cope surmised but 

 could not prove. Into a tank of flat fish, 

 whose colour matched its sandy bottom, a 

 number of pebbles of a different colour 



