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ZOOLOGY. 



TTTE zoological armngc-mont in the prcai-nt Edition is a natural ono, tlio lower 

 forms bi ing considered first and the chain of animated Nature being regarded as 

 terminating in Man. The arrangement of the different divisions follows in the 

 main the valuable little text-book entitled 'Zoological Classitieation,' by F. V. 

 Taseoc, from which considerable extracts have been made. Pope, though profoundly 

 ignorant of the scope and method of scientific zoology, yet formed through his 

 innate strong sense a very just idea of its aims and results. 



" Sec, through this Air, this Ocean, and tliis Earth 



All matter quick and bursting into birth. 



Above, how high, progii'ssivc life may go ! 



Around how wide ; how deep extend below ! 



Vast chain of being ! which from God began 



Natures ethereal, human, angel, man. 



Beast, Bird, Eish, Insect, what no eye can sec, 



No glass can rcacli, from Infinite to thee ; 



From tliee to Nothing. 



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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, 



AVhose body nature is, and (lod the soul ; 



That changed thiough all, and yet in all the same ; 



Great in the Earth, as in the ethereal frame ; 



Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze. 



Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees. 



Lives through all life, extends through all extent, 



Spreads undivided, operates uns]ient ; 



As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns. 



As the rapt seraph, that adores and burns." 



Sub-Kingdom I. PROTOZOA. 



Class llIIIZOrODA. 



Order FORAMINIFERA. 



To this ord(.'r belong the beautiful little organisms (resembling Xamnmlitcs), 

 ■which abound on many sandy beaches along the Aiakan Coast, and look like some 

 very white and flat pulse, less in size than a mustard seed. These shells are 

 exiiuisitc and comjilex structures, but as found on the shore are only dead and 

 bleached. When alive, the chambers arc filled with a gelatinous substance called 

 'sarcode' or 'protoplasm' endowed with life, as evinced by the jiower it possesses 

 of assimilation and secretion, and to the operation of which, tlie varied forms of 

 shell, both siliceous and calcareous, are due. To this order belongs ono of the oldest 



