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OBSERVATIONS 



ON THE 



MICROSCOPIC ANIMALCULES ABOUT THE 



HOT SPRINGS 

 OF CARLSBAD, 



BY 



MR. A. JT. C. CORDA, OF PRAGUE. 



(Translated front, the German manuscript.) 



the celebrated Dane, Otho Frederick 

 Miiller, discovered, in 1786, the Vibrio paxillifer, 

 and described the Conferva pectinalis , it was for 

 the cultivators of natural history a new series of 

 beings, whose form and life appeared so problematic, 

 that some time elapsed before they knew to what 

 organic kingdom they belonged. Miiller had already 

 classed the Vibrio paxilfifer among animals, and the 

 Conferva pectinalis among plants. But this sagacious 

 observer ranged them very soon amongst the infusory 

 animalcules. Mr. Bory de St. Vincent (Diet, class. 



