THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. 



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The drawing of the Sea-star (Fig. 4) will serve to remind 

 you that the animals from which this division is named, 

 radiate, or spread out from the centre in a star-like form, 

 and they are, therefore, called Badiata ; but, as you have 



Fig. 4. 



Example of Radiated or Star-like Animals. 



THE SEA-STAR. 



been told, this is but a very imperfect name ; for since the 

 days of Cuvier, so many forms have been discovered, and 

 so many observations have been made, owing to the great 

 improvements in our microscopes, that the whole of this 

 division has been re-arranged, and will be described in its 

 proper place. 



