CHAPTEli . VII. 



JUNE AND JULY. 



A PHESSURE of other occupations prevented full 

 use being made of June and July, nor was the 

 weather of 18G0 at all propitious. For this reason 

 the microscopic doings of these two months are 

 recorded in one chapter. 



As usual the Kentish Town ponds were productive 

 of objects, and among them were several rotifers 

 not found in tlie previous months. The first of 

 these was a very small worm-like thing, with one 

 eye, a tuft of cilia about the mouth, and two toes 

 at the tail end. Had it not been for the jaws, 

 which were working like fingers thrust against each 

 other, and which were unmistakably of the rotifer 

 pattern, the animal might have been supposed to 

 belong to some other class. According to the 

 ''Micrographic Dictionary," the Lindia torulosa is 

 1-75" long, but this specimen was only about 

 1-200" It was possibly very young, and did not 



