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THE CONNECTIVE TISSUES, BY A. KOLLETT. 



which we may convince ourselves that such a connection 

 between the very finely pointed cell processes and the equally 

 fine fibrils does not exist. By commencing at the cells, and 

 using proper precautions, their long processes may be followed 

 quite to their extremity with a No. 10 immersion lens of 

 Hartnack ; on the other hand, the individual fibrils may be 

 equally well followed throughout the entire preparation, and 

 over all the cells continuously, in the form of smooth, slightly 

 sinuous, but never thickened threads. The substance of the 



Fig. 5. 



Fi^. 5. From the peritoneum of a human embryo of the age of five months. 



cell processes becomes somewhat more strongly coloured with 

 carmine than the fibrils ; their border, however, has not so 

 smooth an appearance, but exhibits very fine irregularities, and is 

 at short distances slightly varicose and somewhat angularly bent. 

 At the time when the fibrillse make their appearance the 

 connective tissue of the peritoneum forms a continuous lamella, 

 remaining in this condition until, in addition to several looped 



