THE MICROSCOPE 



APRIL, 1895. 



Number 28. 



New Series. 



Helps toward the Study of the Radiolaria. 



By FRED'K B. CARTER, 

 MO^TCLAIR, N. J. 



The study of the Radiolaria is somewhat perplexing at 

 first owing to the fact that the subject is so entirely new 

 to most microscopists that they are unacquainted with 

 the terms which are used in describing them. It is quite 

 different in this respect from the study of the Diatoms for 



example. When one first attempts that study he is already 

 familiar with many of the terms from having read so 

 much about them. But the man who takes up the Radi- 

 olaria has not read much about them. In fact there has 

 not been anything for him to read worth speaking of, not 



Note — The diagrams are not drawn to scale and give no idea of the size of 

 the forms they represent. 



