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smaller, their envelope shrinking, and they recede from one another. 
In advanced life these corpuscles are generally more or less 
flattened, but their form is also considerably modified by the age of 
the tissues, and various mechanical alterations to which they are 
subjected, according to the particular locality in which they occur. 
— Read before the Biological Section of the Neiv Yorh Academy 
of Sciences, May 1, 1876. 
