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The charges which Dr. Beale makes may he noticed conse- 
cutively. He says(p. 279, ‘ Roy. Micros. See.,’ May, 1869) — 
“Still more recently, Von Mold’s primordial utricle has been 
called protoplasm by Professor Huxley, who, some years before, 
restricted the term to the matter within the primordial 
utricle.” Again — “ I think Professor Huxley is the first 
observer who has spoken of the cell in its entirety as a mass 
of protoplasm, and the only one who has ever asserted that 
any tissue in nature is composed throughout of matter which 
can be properly regarded as of one kind.” Further, Dr. Beale 
attributes the following notions to Professor Huxley : — “ No 
matter how many different things may be comprised in the 
cell or elementary part, no matter in what essentially different 
states these things may be, no matter how different parts may 
differ in properties — they constitute protoplasm. A muscle 
is protoplasm ; a nerve is protoplasm ; bone, hair, and shell 
are protoplasm ; a limb is protoplasm ; the whole body is 
protoplasm. No anatomical investigation is necessary to 
enable us to detect this substance. Every beast, fowl, reptile, 
worm, or polyp, that we see is protoplasm. Everything that 
lives, or has lived, is protoplasm ” (p. 282). Leaving out of 
question Professor Huxley’s numerous published writings, in 
which other views are very fully and carefully expressed, as 
Dr. Beale admits, I would ask, does the language used by 
Professor Huxley fairly admit of the interpretation imposed 
upon it by Dr. Beale ? It certainly does not in my opinion, and 
conveyed no such meaning to my mind on reading the article 
in the ‘ Fortnightly,’ as it apparently has done to Dr. Beale. 
The passages from which j)arts are quoted by Dr. Beale, and 
on which he bases his charges against Professor Huxley, are 
these : — “ Thus, a nucleated mass of protoplasm turns out to 
be what may be termed the structural unit of the human 
body. As a matter of fact , the body in its earliest state is a 
mere multiple of such units, and in its perfect condition it is 
a multiple of such units variously modified Beast and 
fowl, reptile and fish, mollusk, worm and polyp, are all com- 
posed of structural units of the same character, namely, masses 
of protoplasm with a nucleus.” “ Corpuscles of essentially 
similar structure [to the white blood-corpuscle] are to be 
found in the skin, in the lining of the mouth, and scattered 
through the whole framework of the body.” The italicised 
words and sentence are not given by Dr. Beale in his quota- 
tions, and it seems to me that they imply all which Dr. Beale 
declares to be ignored. Professor Huxley tells his audience 
that in development the protoplasm of the structural units 
becomes variously modified, and Dr. Beale ignores this, 
