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VIEWS OF THE MICROSCOPIC WORLD. 

 Fig. 97. 



Fig. 98. 



feelers to the utmost, spreading out the latter in different directions, so as to 

 command an extensive field ; as soon as an animal comes within their range the 

 feelers twine themselves around it, and gradually contracting, convey the prey to 

 the mouth of the polype. A polype in the attitude of watching for its prey is 

 represented at 6, in figure 97. It sometimes occurs, that the animal attacked 



