THE 



UTILIZATION OF MINUTE LIFE; 



BEING 



PRACTICAL STUDIES 



ON 



INSECTS, CRUSTACEA, MOLLUSCA, WOKMS, POLYPES, 

 INEUSOEIA, AND SPONGES, 



BY 



DR. T. L.^PHIPSON, F.C.S. LONDON, 



Late of the University of Bruxelles ; Member of the Chemical Society of Paris ; Laureate of the Dutch 



Society of Sciences; Corr, Memo, of the Belgian Entomological Society, the Pharmaceutical Society 



of Aiitwexp, the Society of Medical and Natural Sciences of Bruxelles, the Society of 



Sciences of Strasburg, etc., one of the Editors of " Le Cosmos," etc., etc. 



Circular Coral Island, recently formed in the Pacific Ocean, principally composed of the species 

 Madrepora ir.icricofa, and shutting in a portion of the ocean as a lake. 



LONDON: 

 GROOMBRIDaE AND SONS. 



MDCCCLXIV. 



