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Abstract

over, they appeared as flattened spheriods or ellipsoids, sometimes with a projection at one side, corresponding to the position of an internal granule or nucleus, to be hereafter described. Occasionally they were somewhat angular, and, in a few instances, fusiform or pyriform. In still rarer examples, the bodies were prolonged at one end into a projection resembling a cilium, much attenuated at the extremity, and distended at the base. The regular form which prevailed in the vast majority, was the flattened ellipsoid. There was manifestly a very delicate and transparent limiting membrane, apparently quite homogeneous. Attached to this were one, sometimes two, rarely three, minute granules or nuclei, with an extremely distinct outline circular or spherical, and not exceeding l-1000th min. in diameter. These nuclei, (?) when more than one, were generally placed at distant points of the circumference of the bodies.