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who had already made a name by his study of the 

 radiolaria, Haeckel ? 



When the English Government came to publish 

 the results of the Challenger expedition in a 

 monumental work (of fifty volumes), he was 

 entrusted with the work on the siphonophores, the 

 corneous sponges, and all the radiolaria in the 

 collection. For ten years, from 1877 to 1887, 

 Haeckel devoted every available hour to the 

 work of selecting the radiolarian shells with his 

 microscope from these specimens of the deep-sea 

 deposits, and naming, describing, and drawing the 

 new species. When he began his task 810 species 

 of radiolaria were known to science. When he 

 came to his provisional conclusion, ten years 

 afterwards, though his material was not yet 

 exhausted, there were 4,318 species and 739 genera. 

 They are described in the splendid work that he 

 wrote for the Challenger Keport. It consists of 

 two volumes of text (in English) with 2,750 pages 

 and 140 large plates, with the title, Report on the 

 Radiolaria collected by H.M.S. Challenger. In 

 the preparation of these plates (and in the illus- 

 tration of all his later works) he had the very 

 valuable assistance of the gifted Jena designer and 

 lithographer, Adolph Giltch. A good deal of new 

 information with regard to the living body of the 

 radiolaria had come to light since 1862. In 

 particular it had now been settled beyond question 

 that they consisted merely of a single cell. There 

 was, therefore, a good opportunity of reconstructing 

 the Monograph of 1862 with the new and more 



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