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If you are a scientific student, and have already 

 devoted some time to the pursuit, we trust that our 

 remarks will have opened new avenues of thought, 

 and been suggestive of fresh ideas or subjects for in- 

 vestigation. At least, we may confidently hope that 

 we have succeeded in accomplishing the object we 

 had in view in undertaking this task, and to which 

 we referred in our Introduction, namely, to display 

 those remarkable characteristics in two of the hum- 

 blest of animal forms, which render them interesting 

 to the naturalist, and to show that the mechanical 

 contrivances with which they are supplied are far 

 more deserving of our attention than the instruments 

 constructed by the hand of man after their model. 



If we have been so far successful, and have rendered 

 popularly interesting these two creatures, which from 

 their very familiarity were considered unworthy of 

 notice, we shall be well satisfied, and amply repaid 

 for our efforts to compile and lay before you this brief 

 account of the anatomy and natural history of the 

 Earthworm and common House-fly. 



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