APPENDIX. 



SINCE the preceding part of this treatise had 

 mostly passed through the press, I have had an 

 opportunity of consulting some recently pub- 

 lished works, which contain accounts, illustrated 

 by figures, of many very interesting animals 

 belonging to several of the Classes of which I 

 have there treated ; and all of which more or 

 less demonstrate a presiding Intelligence im- 

 mediately connected with the globe that we 

 inhabit, and who, viewed under every aspect, 

 evidently careth for us, and all the creatures he 

 has made. I shall select a few of these for the 

 consideration of the reader. 



I formerly observed 1 that types representing 

 some of the higher forms of the animal kingdom 

 were often to be detected amongst those belonging 

 to its lowest grade : a remarkable instance of this 

 may be seen in one of Ehrenberg's late works, 2 

 in which is described and figured a singular 

 Polygastric Infusory, which seems to exhibit 

 the first outline of an Arachnidan 3 form ; it has 



1 See above p. 320. 2 Symbolce Physicce. 



3 Discocephalus Rotator. 



