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THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE 



ordinaire, et elaborer ses vesicules internes (Fig. 4), qui 

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Fig. 91. 

 Conversion of Encysted Englena into a Rotifer. (Gros.) (x 500.) 



a. Encysted Euglena of an oval form, and pointed at one extremity. 



b. Similar body after its contents have become animalized and converted 



into an embryo Rotifer. The whole mass is nov/ larger and the 

 investing envelope thinner, though it still remains pointed at its 

 posterior extremity. 



de i'ceuf.' So multitudinous are the forms of Rotifera 

 which he has seen emerge from these transforming 

 Euglense that Dr. Gros says : — ' L'on peut se demander 

 s'il existe une forme de Rotatoire qui ne puisse deriver 

 des Euglenes directement ou par d'autres transforma- 

 tions ^' Thus, in addition to the numerous kinds of 



1 Such notions are certainly in harmony with facts long known con- 

 cerning the habitats of Rotifers. Speaking on this subject Pritchard 

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