CONTENTS 



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PREFACE 



TABLE OF THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM . xix 



CHAPTER I 



INTRODUCTION ... . . . . i 



1 . General Survey of the Animal Kingdom i 



2. Living Matter contrasted with Non-living Matter 



3. The Physical Basis of Life Protoplasm 10 



4. The Origin of Life . . 12 



5. The Cell and the Cell Theory . ... 12 



6. Plants contrasted with Animals . . .18 



7. Classification ... .... 21 



8. The Principal Phyla of the Animal Kingdom . . 23 



9. Zoology and its Subsciences . . . 25 



CHAPTER II 



PHYLUM PROTOZOA 27 



1. Class I. Rhizopoda .... 27 



a, Ameba proteus, 27 ; b, Rhizopoda in General, 39. 



2. Class II. Mastigophora .... 41 



a, Euglena viridis, 41 ; b, Mastigophora in General, 45. 



3. Class III. Sporozoa ... .48 



a. Monocystis, 48 ; b, Plasmodiuni vivax, 50 ; c, Sporo- 

 zoa in General, 52. 



4. Class IV. Infusoria . . -53 



a, Paramecium caudatiim, 53 ; b, Infusoria in General, 

 62. 



5. Protozoa in General ....... 65 



6. Pathogenic Protozoa 70 



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