426 Scientific Intelligence. 
tained currency in this country; it was publicly opposed in my ‘ Hunte- 
rian Lectures,’ 7 the fact of the prodigious preparation of fertile eggs 
in many of the supposed spo ome developed species; and in then 
mares that the "Trichina spiralis e human muscular tissue might 
e embryo of a larger worm in course of mi -. . urged that a 
particular investigation was needed for aa particular s 
Among the most brilliant of — yg anpaane to this ot of Physi- 
ology, have been the discoveries which resulted from such special 
Owen ape pe the time when it was first discovered that alan ts and 
r , from whic 
acne might spring mnt of. again nding sine this a 
of generation was observed, as by Chamisso and n cases 
i the budding individual differed much in form from the egg 
one—the subject has been systematized and generalized, with an attempt 
to explain its principle and greatly advance, especially and in a highly in- 
s late treatise, entitled ‘ Wahre Par- 
subjected to the closest microscopic scrutiny and. experiment the u 
sion to which the practical Bee-master Dzierzon had arrived, relative to 
the cause of queen-bees with crippled wings producing a swarm exclu- 
bp . ~_— has RAT HOR that the male bee is produced from an 
ee cee ab ovo,” if metagenetic phases be ascribed to one indi- 
2 perme may be still predicated of all organisms which bear the unmis- 
ble characters of plants or of animals. The closest observations of 
of these t most favorable to clear — 
@ evidence in proof of 
