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10. The observations above recorded will serve to shovv^ how abundant a store 

 of organic beings await the researches of naturalists in the Southern States,^ — 

 forms which, independent of their being among the most delicate and beautiful 

 of all the displays of creative power, are also of the greatest interest, from the 

 important relations which Ehrenberg has proved to exist between them and 

 wide-spread cosmical phenomena. 



11. The waters in which I detected the species above recorded, also abounded 

 in many other forms of microscopic life ; as, Entomostraca, Tardigradi, An- 

 guilluli, &c., &c. Of these I have made no record, as I did not possess sufficient 

 knowledge concerning them. They will well reward the attention of Southern 

 naturalists. 



