DISC. MULTICELLULAR INDIVIDUAL 45 



on the growth-cycle to gamete-formation, or to the inevitable 

 end, in the absence of special opposing factors. 



From this it would follow that the hsemamceba Individual 

 is not indefinitely large, and there is reason for holding this 

 to be true of all living Individuals. In fact, it is our belief 

 that every living Individual, no matter its type or complexity, 

 has a definite theoretical limit to its existence ; the length 

 of its existence under the most ideal conditions being the 



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Fig. 3. — The true haemamceba growth-oyole ; diagrammatic. 

 It begins at A. Only five speculations are figured, and these 

 in straight line of " descent." 



time necessary for the full determination of its contained 

 cycles, within the limits permitted (as we shall see) by Con- 

 tinuity to the Individual in question, plus, in higher types, 

 the time occupied by the process of decline. In the case of 

 the haemamceba the fullest determination of the contained 

 cycles of the Individual is theoretically possible ; the whole 

 Individual should, theoretically, come to be represented solely 



