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Again, simple forms like Cyclidium, Enchelys, and 

 others, which may have been derived from Monads 

 or AmoebiE, are also, in all probability, prone to assume 

 very different characters when they exist under diverse 



conditions are not un- 



conditions, so long as these 

 favourable to their growth ^. 



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 arise from the direct transformation of masses of 

 animal or vegetal tissue existing in a separate condition, 

 or else from parts of larger organisms which have re- 

 cently individualized themselves. Whilst these trans- 

 formations of larger animal or vegetal masses into 

 Ciliated Infusoria may take place immediately, some- 

 times they occur only after previously -lower meta- 

 morphoses into Amoebse or Actinophrys. The different 

 forms ultimately assumed would seem to depend in the 

 main upon the intrinsic molecular properties of the 

 matter of which they are composed ; whilst the extreme 

 variability of these forms tends to imply that the 

 molecular composition of such matter is modifiable to 

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mens of Cyclidium and Chilodon, and of the conversion of the latter 

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 font pas toujours de la mcme maniere/ (* Cosmos,' t. xxii. p. 635.) 



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