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mosing- with one anotlier, or joining tlie sarcodic sheaths of the 

 spines, but all showing the characteristic flowing movement of 

 living protoplasm. The wood-cut (Fig. 52), excellent though it 



Fig. 52. — Hastigerina Miirrayi, Wyville Thomson. From the surface. Ten times the 



natural bize. 



is, gives only a most imperfect idea of the complexity and the 

 beauty of the organism with all its swimming or floating ma- 

 chinery in this expanded condition. We have seen nothing 



