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THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE. 



originally separate coming into contact accident- 

 ally, unite or fuse together into a single individual. 

 The blunt projections of its body-mass, by means of 

 which it is continually varying in form^ contrast notably 

 with the fine thread-like prolongations, occasionally 



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porrecta. These latter projections 

 or pseudopodi^^ as they have been termed^ closely resemble 

 those met with in the shelled-amoebse or Foramimfera'^, 



857 an organism was procured from 



Captain 



But even in : 

 great depths in the Atlantic Ocean 

 Dayman^ which ought, apparently, to be placed in 

 this same group Monera. This and other products of 

 Captain Dayman's expedition were examined by Pro- 

 fessor Huxley, and since the publication of Haeckel's 

 Memoir, he has proposed to look upon this organism 

 as a ^ Moner,' placing it in a new genus Bathjhks. 

 Recent expeditions and fresh investigations have tended 



^ Speaking of this animal, the Amceha porrecta. Max Schultze says:— 

 ' It sends out from its colourless body, on all sides, numerous fibrous 

 processes, short and broad on their first extrusion, but which gradually 



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elongate until they exceed the diameter of the body eight or ten times, 

 and taper to such fine extremities that a magnifying power of 400 dia- 

 meters is needed to distinguish them. The figure and extension of the 

 body change every moment, according to the side in which the ramifica- 

 tions are extended. If two or more of the filiform processes touch, 

 a coalescence takes place, and broader plates or net-like interlacements 

 are produced, which, in the continual changes of figure, are either taken 

 up again into the general mass, or otherwise are further increased by 

 a fresh influx of matter, until finally the entire body is transposed to 

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