BY INFERIOR ORGANISMS. 



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In 1810, M. Suriray showed that the phospho- 

 rescence of the sea in the English Channel was 

 owing exclusively to Noctiluca miliaris, a very mi- 

 nute Rhizopode, which has since been studied by 



Fig. 14. 



M. de Quatrefages, of Paris, and Dr. Verhaghe, of 

 Ostend. (Fig. 14, Noctiluca miliaris : I, The animal 



