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MINUTE LIFE IN PONDS AND STREAMS. 



James Green. 



In this picture are shown some of the many creatures of wonderful and beautiful forms whose existence has been revealed to us by the 



modern microscope. Some are animals, some plants ; others aSam are so puzzlin;^ in their nature — at one staf^e of existence erhibiting the 



characters of the plant, at another those of the animal— that both botanist and zoologist claim them as their subjects. They have been 



drawn in the natural colours under differing scales of magnification, ranging between ^00 and 300 limes their actual sizes. 



