All these facts, to my mind, point to the view that these cone-like bodies do not disappear, but form the basis for the new nuclei. Possibly the body visible in each cone in the later stage, was the commencement of this new nucleus. Götte[94] has figured structures somewhat similar to these bodies, but I hardly understand either his figure or his account sufficiently clearly to be able to pronounce upon the identity of the two. In case they are identical, Götte gives a very different explanation of them from my own[95]. Footnote 94: _Entwicklungsgeschite der Unke_, Pl. 1, fig. 18. Footnote 95: As I before mentioned, Strasburger (_Zellbildung u. Zelltheilung_) has represented bodies precisely similar to those I have described, which appear during the segmentation in the egg of _Phallusia mammillata_ as well as similar figures observed by Butschli in eggs of _Cucullanus elegans_ and _Blatta Germanica_. The figures in this monograph are the only ones I have seen, which are identical with my own. A second of my results, which points to a series of intermediate steps between division and solution of the nucleus, is the distribution in time of the peculiar cone-like bodies. These are present in fair abundance at an early period of segmentation, when there are but few nuclei either in the blastoderm or the yolk. But at later periods, when there are both more nuclei, especially in the yolk, and they are also increasing in numbers more rapidly than before, no bodies of this kind are to be seen. This fact becomes the more striking from the lobate appearance of the later nuclei of the yolk, an appearance which exactly suits the hypothesis of the rapid budding off of fresh nuclei. The observations of R. Hertwig[96] on the gemmation of _Podophrya gemmipara_, support my interpretation of the knobbed condition of the nuclei. Hertwig finds (p. 47) that The horse-shoe shaped nucleus grows out into numerous anastomosing projections. Over the free ends of the projections little knobs appear on the surface of the body, into which the lengthening ends of the processes of the nucleus grow up. Here they bend themselves into a horse-shoe form. The newly-formed nucleus then separates from the original nucleus, and afterwards the bud containing it from the body. Footnote 96: _Morphologisches Jahrbuch_, Bd. 1. pp. 46, 47. From the peculiar arrangement of the net-work of lines of the yolk around these knobbed nuclei, it is reasonable to conclude that interchange of material between the protoplasm of the yolk and the nuclei is still taking place, even during the later periods. These facts about the distribution in time of the cone-like bodies afford a strong presumptive evidence of a change in the manner of nuclear increase.