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ZOOLOGY. 



ber, measures about one fifth of an inch in diameter. Most 

 of our native species are much more minute. The Eozoon, 

 so-called, is supposed by some to be a Foraminifer, but 

 others regard it as more probably inorganic, and simply a 



Fig. 15. , CoOtophtera x/n- 

 nosa. with projecting conical 

 points, containing little sphe- 

 roids, which pass into monad- 

 like bodies C. D, probably an 

 early stage of C. A, a young 

 capsule of C. ffuxleyl Muller. 

 After Cienkowski. 



Fig. 1C. Actinospficermm. a. a mor- 

 sel of food drawn into the cortical layer 

 b : c, central parenchymatous nuiss" of 

 the body ; d, some balls of food-stuff in 

 the latter; . pseudopodia of the cortical 

 layer. After Gegenbaur. 



Fig. ir.Heliophrysvariabilig. A sun 

 animalcule, showing the pseudopoda 

 nuclei, and vacuoles. From Macalhster 



mineral. Undoubted Foraminifera occur in the Silurian 

 formation, while large masses of carboniferous and cre- 

 taceous rocks are formed by their shells. 



Order 2. Radiolaria. These Rhizopods have the general 

 structure of Amoebae, but secrete beautiful silicious shells, 



