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exclaimed, u Well, I've never seen anything like that ! " 

 then, coaxingly leading her up the botanical ladder, 

 at last I got to the ferns which she fancied she knew 

 all about, and you should have seen her amazement 

 and delight as the spores fortunately burst from their 

 golden cases, distributing themselves before her eyes. 

 We wound up a couple of charming hours with the cir- 

 culation in the leaf of the Anacharis, when, with the 

 fourth eye-piece, a good sixth object-glass, and ex- 

 tended draw-tube, the superficial measurement of that 

 little leal measuring only one-tenth of an inch by one- 

 eighth in length and breadth, there may be seen an 

 average of 315,000 moving granules of chlorophyll, 

 "grass-green" bodies, each revolving in its individual 

 cell, in 6300 cells into which the leaf is divided, and 

 then the " conversion " was complete, when the convert 

 exclaimed 



" I should like to stay here all night ! When may I 

 come again ? " 



How very different this result to others ! One, to 

 whom I explained the nature of the gritty tissue in a 

 pear, exclaimed, "I don't care about gritty tissue; 

 give me the pear to eat ! " I have already told you of 

 another, who said all he should care about the microscope 

 would be would it magnify the balance at his banker's ? 



"They that go down to the sea in ships, that do 

 business in great waters ; these see the works of the Lord, 

 and His wonders in the deep," says one revelation,* and 

 what says the other ? 



Did you ever think of the curious nature of many of 

 the humbler classes of animal life ; of the admirable con- 

 trivance of the plates which compose that remarkable piece 

 of divine workmanship we see in an echinus-shell ; or the 

 * Ps. cvii. 23, 24 



