34 THROUGH GLADE AND MEAD. 
cate a precarious existence for this little group, but it 
is not so. No matter how many of the eggs may be 
destroyed in various ways, Nature provides that there 
shall be enough to insure the continuance of the race 
until its mission is accomplished and its place is needed 
for something higher and better. 
But Branchipus is only one of the myriad forms 
of life which may be found in the pool. Microscopic 
forms, algee, desmids, diatoms, rhizopods, infusoria, are 
there, most of them of wonderful beauty. To watch 
their development on a life-slide under a compound 
microscope is to get a clear vision into the inner re- 
cesses of ‘‘ Nature’s Fairy Land.” 
