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XVUl 



THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE. 



whose smaller filaments, 



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in diameter, looked like a 



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. Fig./. 

 Spores and Filaments similar to those found within Crystals of 



Ammonic Tartrate. ( x 600.) 



which 



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contained within a deUcate Tiyaline cylinder, across 

 dissepiments were sometimes to be seen, as in very minute 



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with 



ated esa 

 •inced me th 







' 4e interior 



of 



with a one-inch object-glass whilst solution was taking place, 

 these air bubbles could be seen at first within cavities, from 

 which they were afterwards liberated by a solution of their 

 walls. Occasionally, from the very centre of a crystal from 

 which bubbles of gas had been escaping, a very small and 

 almost invisible filamentary mass floated out, which was more 

 or less thickly studded with minute air bubbles. Such masses 

 were just visible with an ordinary pocket-lens, and when 

 transferred on the point of a needle to a slip of glass, and 

 examined with a magnifying power of about 600 diameters, 

 they were found to contain more or less of the following 

 constituents:— I. A minute fragment of cotton or paper 

 fibre; 2. A variable quantity of an almost transparent, in- 

 soluble plate-like substance, homogeneous, though broken 

 up in all directions by intersecting cracks ; 3. More rarely, 

 a small quantity of a tenacious mucoid matter containing 

 refractive protein-looking granules of various sizes ; 4. A 

 quantity of a colourless, confervoid-looking mass, some of m and the 



ilmost certain t 



they were n 



loifcver; 



that IT 



as frequer 

 ionslv possib: 

 kra engaged m 

 ioa, just as it 1 

 ationed. Frc 



iitlie mode 0! 







mere linear aggregation of irregular masses of protoplasm, istd in the stron 



though it became obvious that in certain larger filaments, 



^Tns which mid 



continuous with these, the irregular protoplasm masses were potassic bitartra 



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process 



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