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it necessary that we should most carefully examine the 

 structure of its body. Ordinarily it is invisible to the 



Fig. 26. 



Fig. 27. 



Fig. 23. 



Fig. 28. 



Fig. 23. — (A) Gastrula of a Zoophyte (Gastrophysema) . (Haeckel.) 



Fig. 24.— (B) Gastrula of a Worm (Sagitta). (After Kowalevsky.) 



Fig. 25. — (C) Gastrula of an Echinoderm (Starfish, Vraster). (After 

 Alexander Agassiz.) 



Fig. 26. — (D) Gastrula of an Arthropod (Nauplius). 



Fig. 27. — (E 1 ) Gastrula of a Mollusc (Pond-snail, Limnceus). (After Karl 

 Eabl.) 



Fig. 28.— (F) Gastrula of a Vertebrate (Lancelet, Amphioxus). (After 

 Kowalevsky.) 



In all, d indicates the primitive intestinal cavity; o, the primitive mouth; 

 s, the cleavage-cavity ; i, the entoderm, or intestinal layer ; e, the exoderm, 

 or skin-layer. 



