"Tu cuncta superno

Ducis ab exemplo, pulchrum pulcherimus ipse
Mundum mente gerens, similique imagine formans."
BOETHIUS, De Consol., 9.

"WHAT time this world's great workmaister did cast
To make all things such as we now behold,
It seems that He before His eyes had plast
A goodly patterne, to whose perfect mould
He fashioned them as comely as He could,
That now so fair and seemly they appear;
As naught may be amended anywhere.

That wondrous patterne, wheresoeer it be,
Whether in Earth, laid up in secret store,
Or else in Heaven, that no man may it see
With sinful eyes, for fear it to deflore,
Is perfect beauty."-SPENSER.

Perpendicular section through thick layer of epithelium covering a papilla of the tongue, showing the bioplasm or living matter and the formed material of each elementary unit or cell.

In the lower part of figure 1, the cells which are closest to the nutrient matter are seen.

Here there

are no SEPARATE CELLS, but the soft formed material forms a continuous mass. These are the youngest bioplasts, and are multiplying in number. When the formed material has accumulated around the bioplasm to some extent the process of multiplication ceases. As the cells advance towards the surface, C, to take the place of these removed, the formed material becomes firin and dry, and the remains of the bioplasm die, when the whole "cell" consists of lifeless formed material only. x 700.

Bioplasm and
elastic tissue,
or formed ma-
terial. The
bioplast is
moving in the
direction of
the arrow and
forming the
elastic tissue
as it proceeds.

Bioplasm and formed
material (contractile
tissue) of muscle.
The bioplasm is mov-
ing in the direction
indicated by the
arrow. It is now
between a and b, but
was between 6 and r

of

Development
young dark-bordered
nerve fibres at a very
early period, showing
bioplasm and formed

material of young el-
ementary parts nd
the fine fibre coiling
spirally round the
developing dark bur

dered fibre.

A l 18.

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