XI. COMPOSITE ANIMALS. 



" The man whose eye 

 Is ever on himself, 

 Doth look on one 

 The least of Nature's works." WORDSWORTH. 



" We penetrate bodily this incredible beauty ; 

 Our eyes are bathed in these lights and forms." 



EMERSON. 



THE principal object in this sketch is a group of 

 Plmnatetta, a form of fresh- water Polyzoa to which 

 are attached stentors, rotifers, vorticella?, and a beau- 

 tiful tree form of epistylis. As they were all found 

 together, so they are here drawn not because there 

 is any affinity between them, but merely that they 

 formed thus, under the microscope, a picture of 

 exquisite beauty and interest. Every one who is 

 familiar with microscopic life has often found 

 animals of various and diverse forms curiously 

 combined : and, indeed, it is these wondrously 

 beautiful pictures that constitute one of the chief 



