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a branching tree. These buds, no doubt, make you think of something 

 you have seen before the yeast -babies yes, these are the baby- 

 hydra;. Soon their fingers begin to grow ; then they loosen them- 

 selves from the old mother hydra, and begin to " fish for themselves." 

 The next time yon go wading, you must try and capture some of these 



Feelers, or tentacles. 



- Old hydra. 



Young hydree. 



Fig. 42. Old Htdea and Young Ones. 



wonderful little creatures, and see if you can find all that I have de- 

 scribed without my help. You are now, I trust, opening your eyes 

 to the great world of living things all around you, in which you have 

 lived and played, as I lived and played blindfolded. And, when 

 once your eyes are really open, wide, there is no telling what wonders 

 they may behold. 



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SKETCH OF DR. JEFFEIES WYMAN. 



By BURT G. WILDER, 



PROFESSOR OF ZOOLOGY IN CORNELL UNIVERSITY. 



WITHIN" a year, science has lost two of her greatest leaders, Louis 

 Agassiz and Jeffries Wyraan. With the life, the works, and 

 the appearance of the one, all are familiar. But the other was hardly 

 known outside of strictly scientific circles. He rarely gave popular 

 lectures, and never wrote any thing that attracted general attention. 

 Yet his influence upon the progress of science in this country has been 

 very great, and he had for years been regarded by all as the highest 

 anatomical authority in America, and the compeer of Owen, Huxley, 

 and Gegenbauer, in the Old World. 



Jeffries Wtman was born at Chelmsford, near Lowell, Massachu- 

 setts, August 11, 1814. His father was a physician, as is his surviv- 



