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rently embedded in little cavities, which EhreiiLerg 

 supposed were separate stomachs, although that 

 theory is now seldom received. One advantage of 

 viewing these objects in a sufficient quantity of 

 water, to leave them in freedom, is that they fre- 

 ([uenrly turn themselves, so that you can see right 



A, B, C, D, Stentor Miilleri in diiferent degrees of expansion. A large specimen i- 

 one twenty-fourth of an inch long. 



down into them; and the drawing given in the 



frontispiece represents such a view, which is the 



most favourable for the exhibition of the mouth. 



To make out the details of their structure, to see 

 the nucleus and other organs, the flattening in the 



live-box is useful, and it enables much higher 

 powers to be employed. 



