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THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE, 



is the case^ for instance^ with the 



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Sph^rea 



Robert SI which grows from a caterpillar (Hepialus vtre- 

 scens) in New Zealand • with Sph^rea entomorhiza which 

 appears in pairs from the middle line of the back^ at 

 the junction of the thorax and abdomen^ in many of the 

 West Indian beetles , and with many other anomalous 

 growths which have from time to time been met with 

 upon members of the insect world. 



. ^ See abstract of his communication in ' Report of British Association/ 



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1^71 



^ *Rendiconti di Lombardo,' Nov. 1867. 



^ See his ' Vegetaux Parasites/ Plate ii. Figs. 5 and 6, and Plate iv, 



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have met with is the development of a yellow mould 

 within the cerebral cavity of golden pheasants^ which 

 soon proved fatal' ^ whilst Dr. Murie^ has fomid fungus- 

 growths within the abdomino-pleural memtrane of a 

 Kittiwake gull, of a great white-crested cockatoo, and 

 of a rough-legged buzzard. Well developed fungi have 

 been found, moreover, within the uninjured eggs of 

 birds and serpents by Cantoni^^ Rayer, Robin ^, and 

 others , and this not merely just within the shell and 

 its living membrane, but growing from the surface of 

 the yolk itself. 



Certain insects, moreover, are not unfrequently the ■ 

 seats of remarkable parasitic growths, which, although 

 they may after a time manifest themselves externally, | mplet-like fashi 

 either take origin in, or at all events start in their 

 development from, some internal portion of the body, 

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