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THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE. 



with moisture 1. The specimen may then be examined 

 from time to time with a jV objective; and in the 

 course of from twenty-four to seventy-two hours, ac- 

 cording to the temperature, such changes will have 

 occurred in many of the milk-globules (ranging from 



in diameter) that they may be seen 

 to have assumed a less refractive and more distinctly 

 vesicular appearance, and to be giving birth to one 

 two^ or even three buds, from their periphery, which 

 speedily grow into large dissepimented mycelial fila- 



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^ In a small wide-mouthed, stoppered bottle, for instance, lying on its 

 side, and containing a little water, 



^ Other globules become fused together so as to form large irregular 

 masses of various kinds. Multitudes of Bacteria also appear amongst 

 the globules. 



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In speaking of the milk-globules, he said : ' Lorsqu'ils 



se trouvent livres a eux-memes et places dans les cir- 



constances favorable a la continuite de leur existence, 



ne tardent pas a se gonfler, a prendre souvent la cir- I LW yet, in opposi 



forme irreguliere d^m petit topinambour microscopique, 1 ^''^^^s, over mo: 



et a germer par plusieurs cotes a-la-fois, de la meme 



maniere que germent les seminules vesiculeuses des 



Confervees; des Mucedinees des Champignons, et dcs 



vesicules poUiniques/ Or, as I have also been able to 



ascertain, other globules, /au lieu de commencer par 



prendre un developpement irregulier deviennent ovoides, 



puis allonges comme de petits bouts de cylindre, et dans 



ces divers e'tats, ou plutot sous ces formes modifiees, 



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