Note 144 — IV. THE CONTINUITY OF THE GERM-PLASM AS THE FOUNDATION OF A THEORY OF HEREDITY. (continued 2)

E. van Beneden and Boveri have recently, quite independently of each other, made a more exact study of these ‘Polkörperchen’ (‘Centrosoma,’ Boveri). They show that nuclear division starts from these bodies, although the mode of origin of the latter is not yet quite clear.—A. W., 1888.