J. Wyman on living organisms in heated water. 155 
(199. Jn these waters at various temperatures up to C., 
6° F.,) but were most abundant in waters of the temper- 
1 KE.) 
“ . 
_ At the higher sie they were not abundant and ex- 
ostoc or Protococcus, intensely green and 
aged Several feeding on the bodies of insects boiled by the wa- 
- The spiders were seen even standing on the water which 
_ 176° F. ; their bodies were not immersed and the hairs on 
| legs might, as is often the case, repel the water. : 
ca ot springs of Iceland.— Mr. Flourens exhibited to the Acad- 
fo Y, Conferves collected in Iceland by M. Deseloizeaux who 
20s Ree growing in the Grf at a temperature of 98° C., - . 
Many other accounts§ of living organisms in thermal waters 
_— y Personal Narrati 's edition, London, 1852, vol. ii, p. 38. 
Ptneee the shbvensearanan ioe: Dana ‘int Dr. ice lave published in 
htc 1866, vol. xli, p. 389, various observations and remarks in relation 
: and in high temp ieee. Oe 
otes Rendus de l’Academie des Sciences, xxiii, 1846, p. 934 
Serbs wards, Influence of Physical Agents on Life, London, 1832, p. 407. 
_~“"Penter, Gen. and Comp. Physiology, Philadelphia, 1851, pp. 57 and & 
