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THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE. 



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Actinbphrys-like rays were protruded — the corpuscles 

 still remaining quite motionless, and a few of the 

 o-ranules being still green id). The latter soon became 

 quite colourless^ whilst the rays grew rather longer {e\ 

 and at the same time began to exhibit slow and sluggish 



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Transformations of Chlorophyll Corpuscles. ( X 600.) 



a. Pale, unaltered Chlorophyll Corpuscles of Nitella. 



b. Others lying side by side with former, but larger, of a darker green, 



and slightly granular, 



c. Decolourization advancing — a few granules still green. 



d. vSimilar corpuscles after the protrusion of motionless rays, and forma- 



tion of a vacuole. 



€, Similar corpuscles completely decolourized and converted into slug- 

 gish specimens of Actinophrys. 



/. First stage in transformation of Actinophrys, some of which are 



converted into Amoebae (g), and others into Monads (b) with 

 two flagella. 



j. Enchelys-like organisms, probably derived from further development 



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of some of Monads and Amcebre. 



movements. - Some of the bodies appeared to exist in 

 this Actinophrys-form for some time, though others 



