we GLAUCUS; OR, 
ralists since the lynx-eye of Colonel Montagu dis- 
cerned them forty years ago. 
And do not despise the creatures because they 
are minute. No doubt we should most of us prefer 
discovering monstrous apes in the tropical forests 
of Borneo, or stumbling upon herds of gigantic 
Ammon sheep amid the rhododendron thickets of the 
Himalaya: but it cannot be; and “he is a fool,” 
says old Hesiod, “ who knows not how much better 
half is than the whole.” -Let us be content with 
what is within our reach. And doubt not that in 
these tiny creatures are mysteries more than we 
shall ever fathom. | 
The zoophytes and microscopic animalcules which 
people every shore and every drop of water, have 
been now raised to a rank in the human mind more 
important, perhaps, than even those gigantic mon- 
sters whose models fill the lake at the Crystal 
Palace. The research which has been bestowed, 
for the last century, upon these once unnoticed 
atomies has well repaid itself; for from no branch 
of physical science has more been learnt of the 
