. Cell intelligence; the cause of growth, heredity and instinctive actions, illustrating that the cell is a conscious, intelligent being, and, by reason thereof, plans and builds all plants and animals in the same manner that man constructs houses, railroads and other structures . 114 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION man-of-war. In a book on Zoology it is briefly describedas follows: One of the most remarkable and best known of thisgroup. It consists of a pear shaped and elegantly crestedair sac floating lightly upon the surface of the water andgiving oflf from its under surface numero
. Cell intelligence; the cause of growth, heredity and instinctive actions, illustrating that the cell is a conscious, intelligent being, and, by reason thereof, plans and builds all plants and animals in the same manner that man constructs houses, railroads and other structures . 114 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION man-of-war. In a book on Zoology it is briefly describedas follows: One of the most remarkable and best known of thisgroup. It consists of a pear shaped and elegantly crestedair sac floating lightly upon the surface of the water andgiving oflf from its under surface numerous long and var-ied appendages. These appendages are the different mem-bers of the community and perform different functions,—some eating for the whole, others producing medusi buds. Fig. 12.—Microgromia socialis. A, entire colony; B, single zooid; C, hasundergone binary fission, with one of the daughter-cells creeping out of theshell; D, flagellula; c. vac. contractile vacuole; nu. nucleus; sh. shell. and others being the locomotive members, the latter hav-ing tentacles with powerful stingers that stretch out be-hind the floating community. The air sac is three or fourinches long. The social community of cells that build this structurecalled Portuguese man-of-war, show wonderful skill, asthey are able to sink or swim at will. The Albatross Ex-pedition describes them as follows: The slime on thesea weed for instance may have come from a most poison-ous jellyfish known as the Portuguese man-of-war, that THE LIVING STRUCTURES 115 .^77^, pn
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