XIV CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Description — Motions of Eotifers — Indications of a Will — 

 Eemarks on the Motions of Lower Creatures — Various 

 Theories — Possibility of Reason — Keflex Actions — Brain of 

 Insects — Consensual Actions — Applications of Physiological 

 Reasoning to the Movements of Eotifers and Animalcules. 99 



CHAPTER VIII. 



AUGUST. 



Mud Coloured by Worms — Their Retreat at Alarm — A 

 Country Duck-Pond — Contents of its Scum — Cryptomonads 

 — Their Means of Locomotion — A Triarthra (Three-limbed 

 Rotifer) — The Brachion or Pitcher Rotifer — Its Striking 

 Porm — Enormous Gizzard — Ciliary Motion inside this 

 Creature — Large Eye and Brain — Powerful Tail — Its 

 Functions — Eggs. 113 



CHAPTER IX. 



SEPTEMBER. 



Microscopic Value of Little Pools — Curious Facts in Ap- 

 pearance and Disappearance of Animalcules and Rotifers — 

 Mode of Preserving them in a Glass Jar — Fragments of 

 Melicerta Tube— Peculiar Shape of Pellets — Amphileptus — 

 Scaridium longicaudum— A Long-tailed Rotifer — Stephan- 

 oceros Eichornii — A Splendid Rotifer — Its Gelatinous 

 Bottle — Its Crown of Tentacles — Retreats on Alarm — 

 Illumination Requisite to see its Beauties — Its Greediness 

 — Richly-coloured Food— Nervous Ganglia. . . . 127 



CHAPTER X. 



OCTOBER. 



Stentors and Stephanoceri — Description of Stentors — Mode 

 of viewing them— Their Abundance— Social Habits— Soli- 

 tary Stentors living in Gelatinous Caves — Propagation by 



