VIII. ANIMATED TEUMPETS, HATS, 

 AND PUESES. 



" Where the pool 



Stands, mantled o'er with green, invisible 

 Amid the floating verdure millions stray." THOMSON. 



THE Stentores are among the most prominent forms 

 of Infusorial life. They are of various forms, sizes, 

 and colour ; and few objects are more beautiful 

 and attractive to the amateur microscopist. They 

 are, moreover, easily found and recognised, and 

 once seen are never forgotten. 



The sketch represents a group of Stentors, 

 green and white. When expanded they are 

 trumpet -shaped, very much like the old " post- 

 horn " of former times the expanded end of 

 which will represent the head of the Stentor and 

 the remainder its tapering body. This thinning- 

 out of the body is very singular, for it is not a 



