In Two Vols. crown 8vo., price 28s., 
THE 
BEGINNINGS OF LIFE; 
‘Being some Account of the Nature; Modes of. Origin, and 
Transformation of: Lower: Organisms. 
WITH UPWARDS OF ONE HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS. 
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 
ans “ Dr. Bastian has made/an important-contribution toscientific 
literature, evidencing wide research and laborious reasoning, 
and has spared no pains to illustrate his meaning by. well- 
executed wood engravings.”—Quarterly Fournal of Science. 
“His preliminary chapters on the correlation of the vital and 
physical forces, on the nature and theories of life, on organized 
.and organizable matter, on the relations of the animal, vege- 
table, and mineral kingdoms, and on cell phenomena and cell 
.. doctrines, form the clearest and most readable exposition of 
~« these subjects that we have yet seen, and they have a value 
quite independent of the special inquiry to which they are an 
‘introduction.”—Popular Science Monthly. 
“This is a remarkable book. . . . The questions of the im- 
mediate scientific future will undoubtedly be the questions of 
which these volumes treat.”—Glasgow Herald. 
