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"Then the rotifers, too, dry up, and await with 

 resignation better times. Should a little rain come 

 they will revive they or their posterity. This time I 



ZOLPODA CTTCTTLLUS. 



have played the part of Nature, by the help of a few 

 drops of water, and the rotifers have returned to 

 activity." 



Then they viewed in succession : Tardigrades, 



BELL VOKTICELLA. ( V. convdlaria). 



degraded, creeping, repulsive creatures ; Kolpoda, in 

 form like a little leech ; and Monads, the most micro- 

 scopic of microscopic beings, and to be found by 



