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(he fruit of my patient labour, about* Two or three pounds 

 ofForaminifera!' perhaps some eager microscopist will 

 exclaim. Nay, not so ; but about a piled-up teaspoonful 

 of exquisite shells." 



He has kindly allowed me to use a cast of the cut 

 with which he has iUustrated his subject, and which was 



Foraminifer, with extended pseudopodia. 



drawn from the object itself, being his own prepara- 

 tion ; and the reader will gather from the few but varied 

 forms it contains a faint idea of their diversity and 

 beauty. 



I do not wonder at his enthusiasm over his favourite 



* From an admirable article, "Gossip about Foraminifera," by 

 E. H. Robertson, in Science Gossip, July 1, 1889. 



