zooLooy. 



Tbe Amoeba has the power of digesting and of distributing 

 and absorbing the food (Fig. 1, h, food-ball) when digested. 



The Anioi-ba reproduces 

 its kind by simply dividing 

 into two portions, as seen 

 in Fig. 3. After becom- 

 ing encysted or forming a 

 round mass as at B, it 

 breaks out of tlie cell-wall 

 and becomes free and ir- 

 regular in shape as at A. 

 Self-division then begins 



Fig. 2. — Amirha proteus. A. the left- 

 hand figure, the most usual form; the 

 right shows the broad, flat pseudopo- 

 dla; the arrows indicate the direction 

 of circulation of the granules. Highly aS at C, the nUClcUS dlVld- 

 magnitied. . . -i , t^ 



mg uito two, until at Ua 



and Bi two separate individuals are formed. 



When the Amceba is touched it (1) contracts its body- 



-it 



¥ia i.—Atmrbn f!phi-rrnrncrns A. before division. B, the same in Ita restine 

 stage; n, cyst or cell- wall; r!. Ixjdy-mass; r, nucleus; />. nucleolus f 'in-a>ba- 

 °'fl"rt '''*'"''"^- ^' '"" y"""g Amrebse, the result of divisiou. Highly mag- 



18 thus said to be contractile— and (2) performs automatic 

 movements; also, like the higher animals, (3) it swallows 



