Show Heredity To account for the Iransmissibility of ancestral types Darwin in hiswork on Pangeneslfl promulgated a theory that each cell threw off what he designated gemmules which formed the nuclei of another series of cells whose sole destiny In the economy of nature was the propagation I propaga-tion of Its species Those gemmulos formed the blastomn In which was contained an exceedingly microscopi cal Impression of the animal which I might ultimately be called into being j If this wero the cane wo should bo able to submit the miniature Image lo our Investigation by means of the microscope But strong microscopes are wanted The red corpuscles of human blood have been measured and the diameter is found lo he about one fourthousandth part of an Inch The number of these red corpuscles which would adhere to the point of a neeiJic would not be less than lCOOOOO Theory teaches that the final division of mailer mai-ler is the atom and the atom has h measured It is calculated that In a cube of water one thlrt > thousandth part of an Inch wide there fire M 000000 atoms London Science Gossip |