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What Max Schultze prophesied in 1866 has now actually 
been verified by Reichert’s having made the discovery of the 
true granules, which have been known to all observers of the 
Rhizopoda for more than thirty years ! 
As we have seen, Reichert’s latest representations are, in 
all essential points, the direct opposite of his former asser- 
tions. But this does not prevent him from naively asserting, 
at the commencement of his treatise, that he now brings for- 
ward the complete proofs for his purpose, and that he has 
thereby “ thoroughly annihilated the sarcode theory which 
has weighed on many distinguished naturalists like a moun- 
tain for years.” Indeed, one does not know at what to be 
most amazed in this treatise ; whether at the inconceivable 
ignorance of a mass of the oldest discovered and most univer- 
sally known facts, or at the misrepresentation and perversion 
of the plainest circumstances, or at the astonishing sophistry 
with which the case in dispute is set aside, and with which 
the author assumes to have finally discovered the facts Avhich 
he formerly denied with the greatest obstinacy, in opposition 
to all other observers. Nothing is, perhaps, more remark- 
able in the inductive logical conclusion of Reichert than that 
his new observations, with which he pretends to annihilate 
the sarcode theory (but actually adopts it !),are founded on a 
single monothalamium ( Gromia oviformis ), and that he wishes 
to consider proved by that alone the similar structure of all the 
Polythalamia ! It would be just as logical if Reichert asserted 
that all the Polythalamia possess a one-chambered (not many- 
chambered) shell, for Gromia (a monothalamium) manifestly 
possesses a one-chambered shell ! We might as well, and 
Avith equal justice, assert that the placenta is absent in all 
placental mammals; for the marsupials have no placenta, and 
yet are mammals too ! 
It Avould not be Avorth while to devote so many lines here 
to Reichert’s latest production if tAvo circumstances did not 
demand this energetic protest. 
After Reichert perceived Avhat a mess he had got into by 
his first publications on the sarcode movement, &c., he tried 
to get out of it by giving a report of Avhat others had long 
since brought forAvard, under neAv and most obscure distor- 
tions, and in expressions difficult to understand, and then 
vaunted it as his neAv discovery. He Avas not afraid, for in- 
stance, to quote Johannes Muller, even in one of the first 
sentences, as a Avitness for his representations (p. 151), 
although the observations and views of Johannes Muller on 
the sarcode-bodies of the Polythalamia and Radiolaria noto- 
