HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP, 



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produce certain valuable documents, defended him- 

 self by solemnly declaring that their mysterious dis- 

 appearance was due to white ants, which had not 



faction to many out here to learn that our termite 

 does not get off scot-free ; but that the relentless 

 destroyer of books, clothes, furniture, papers, grain, 



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Fig. 49. 



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Fig. 55- 

 49 and 50. — Views of a form of nioutli- 



Figs. 46 to 54. — Specimens in which the hyaline cap is replaced by a hyaline sphere. Figs. ,, ^-. r u 



parts dift"erin< slightly from those observable in Figs. 44 and 45. Fig. 49 is focussed for the siirlace, and Hg. 50 'or }"<= con- 

 stricted interior of the " pharyngeal tube." Figs. 49 to 53.— Views of the Parasite in various amceba-hke forms : ingested 

 food-particles occupy the posterior portions of the infusorians delineated. Fig. 55.— Ruptured cuticle of parasite flattened 

 out, as seen with Seibert's ,'-th water immersion. 



only devoured the missing papers, but had entirely 

 demolished the very iron safe wherein they had been 

 deposited ! It is, therefore, a source of quiet satis- 



and even garden-plants, is himself victimised by 

 parasites. The readers of your Journal in other 

 parts of the world may also be interested in a short 



