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embody or shadow forth some form of material or 

 moral beauty. Men or animals of the greatest in- 

 dividual force, or who have been procreated by 

 parents of signal individual force, or under circum- 

 stances where force and intensity find free scope, arc 

 almost certain to embody in themselves the elements 

 of personal beauty. With regard to the Eolidac, 

 there is little doubt that, physically or chemically 

 speaking, their superb colouring is due to the action 

 of their well-developed liver modifying in some way 

 the primary pigment matter of their blood ; and 

 there can be little question that the prodigal vital 

 energy displayed by them is the grand cause of the 

 efficient operation of this hepatic chemical process. 



NOTES ON A PECULIAR ROTIFER. 



I BEG to send you a description of a new rotifer, 

 exhibited by me at one of the meetings of the 

 East Kent Natural History Society some time back. 

 Your readers might search for it wherever the Riccia 



ing matter had left a portion of the vegetable tissues 

 quite transparent. On placing some of the decaying 

 weed under the microscope on January 21st, 1879, 





Fig. 146. 



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Fig- 145. 



fluitam may be found. I trust that my description 

 wUl assist any one who may have the patience to look 

 for It, and enable him to make it out.* I had for a 

 long time in a vase a quantity of the Riccia JJuitans, 

 which I obtained from a dyke at Sturry, some of 

 which was decaying, and the chlorophyll or colour- 



months, and have seen vo^.n*^ anachar.s, for over four 



have .hem living auh"s ^ime^lT" ^"""""^lly Produced, and 

 building up their cises fr^m Jh ''«" 'H^ ^'^"^^ P^°"« °f 



mixing a very small Lrtin^ '^e very first beginning, and by 



manu^acturing^f ^he'^elek n'f^'"^l" '*"= *•'''"> '^e 

 observed. I have seen^hr.J '"' P="=' ="P '^ P'ainly 

 case, a.d in five hluVs^producrZ^na"'"" ''"""'"^ "^^^ 







Fig. 147. 



I observed some round bodies of an amber colour in 

 winch were seen globular forms of various sizes (fig. 

 '4S» n) ; they gradually moved and changed their 

 forms, and the round body itself slowly elongated and 



