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THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE. 



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pared 



artifici 



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nc 



3 found 



from coagulating blood represent morphological states 



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necessitated by its molecular affinities. 



Occasionally, too, when organic infusions are exposed 

 to conditions unfavourable for the formation of organ- 

 isms (more especially when their virtues have been, in 



|cs whichj. great part, exhausted by a previous abundant growth), 

 ) yield no coll this kind of pseudo-crystallization occurs, and peculiar 



lave 



frquenft 

 fsons sufFeriji 

 milar in 



lich probably t 

 T cases irregiil 



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?cd of roundeJ! 



-^s; 



^^ 





have beei 



Fig. 43. 



i n the habit Peculiar Forms assumed by Albuminoid Concretions from an old Hay 



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of an 



Infusion. ( X 800.) 



ecn 



derived. 



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reduced ti bodies are produced^ which seem to grow after the 

 1 xrmi fashion of crystals into all kinds of odd shapes. A 



M. great similarity of form^ however^ often obtains between 

 the concretions which occur in the same fluid. Such 

 aggregates are in fact in every way analogous to crys- 

 tals, and their differences of form are probably just as 

 referrible to differences of molecular composition 1. 



It has been already pointed out that the products 

 obtainable from certain saline solutions differ according 



.viously soPf 

 c • and the^ 

 . blood an'l?' 



j these 



form 



1 



nt m 



olec 



¥ 



brine 



w 



,'hicb 



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3 of th^ 



bio" 



d 



)CC1 



imen 



has 



bee" 



^ We may here draw the reader's attention to the different shapes 

 which are assumed by the granular particles entering into the composition 

 of the pellicles or deposits found after a time in certain saline solutions. 

 jjli They were curiously branched and knobbed in Experiment w. 



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