58 THE HISTORY OF CREATION. 
A very remarkable new form of Protista, which I have 
named Flimmer-ball (Magosphera), I discovered only three 
years ago (in September, 1869), on the Norwegian coast 
(Fig. 12), and have more accurately described in my 
Fic. 12.—The Norwegian Flim- 
mer-ball (Magosphera planula) 
swimming by means of its vibra- 
tile fringes, as seen from the 
surface. 
Biological Studies” (p. 
137, Plate V.). Off the 
island of Gis-oe, near Ber- 
gen, I found swimming 
about, on the surface of 
the sea, extremely neat 
little balls composed of a number (between thirty and forty) 
of fringed pear-shaped cells, the pointed ends of which were 
united in the centre like radii. After a time the ball dis- 
solved. The individual cells swarmed about independently 
in the water like fringed Infusoria, or Ciliata. These after- 
wards sank to the bottom, drew their fringes into their 
bodies, and gradually changed into the form of creeping 
Amoebe (like Fig. 10 B). These last afterwards encased 
themselves (as in Fig. 10 A), and then divided by repeated 
halvings into a large number of cells (exactly as in the case 
of the cleavage of the egg, Fig. 6, vol. i p. 299). The cells 
became covered with vibratile hairs, broke through the case 
enclosing them, and now again swam about in the shape of 
a fringed ball (Fig. 12). This wonderful organism, which 
sometimes appears like a simple Amoeba, sometimes as a 
