THE PHILIPPINE 



Journal of Science 



D. General Biology, Ethnology, 

 AND Anthropology 



Vol. XIII SEPTEMBER, 1918 No. 5 



THE PROTOZOA OF MANILA AND THE VICINITY: I 



By Fkank G. Haughwout * 



{From the Department of Medical Zoology, College of Medicine and Surgery, 



University of the Philippines) 



The student of general zoology passes from group to group of 

 the animal kingdom, and in his journey he reviews the 



Edens that wait the wizardry of thought, 

 Beauty that craves the touch of artist hands. 

 Truth that but hungers to be felt or seen ; 



until either he pauses at, or goes back to, some group, which has 

 touched his aesthetic sense or stirred his lust for scientific knowl- 

 edge, and forthwith he becomes a specialist. Probably few men 

 or women who pursue a specialty in natural history are not 

 led to it by some prompting, perhaps very subtle, of the aesthetic 

 sense, which has had its influence in determining them to make 

 a life study of some particular group. To such persons the 

 Protozoa are particularly alluring. Their beauty and variety 

 of form are infinite; their life processes, whether carried out 

 by the most primitive rhizopod or the most complex infusorian, 

 abound with interesting phenomena; and the problems they 

 afford are as profound and fascinating as they are varied and 

 intricate. 



Interest in the Protozoa is not restricted to the naturalist or 

 the physician. They offer a fertile field to the amateur micros- 

 copist, and indeed, in the past, they have claimed the attention 

 of that person more than they do in this day. Some very im- 

 portant contributions to the study of the morphology of species 



* Professor of protozoology and chief of department. 



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