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POPULAR SCIENCE REVIEW. 
It is to be hoped that, before the next number of this Review 
appears, we shall have welcomed back the victors with rejoicing, 
tempered, however, with sorrow that one out of this brave little 
band has been left behind in the lone ocean — a congenial 
resting-place, it may be, seeing that it was the scene of his late 
labours. “ Whom the gods love, die young.” 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE CXXIX.* 
11 Es giebt ein vollendetes organisclies Leben im unsichtbar kleinen Raume, 
welches die Grosse des Grossen in derNatur unabsehbar erhebt.” — ‘Ehren- 
berg, Die Infusionsthierchen .” 1838. 
Fig. 1 . Globigerina , with the radiating processes entire. From the Chal- 
lenger soundings. After PI. I. vol. xxiii. 11 Proc. Royal Soc.” 
It is evident that when this figure was drawn the investing 
envelope of sarcode, mentioned by Professor Wyville Thom- 
son in his letter to Professor Huxley (“Nature,” Aug. 19, 
1875), had not yet been discovered. 
Fig. 2. A “ Cyatholith,” from the Atlantic mud, magnified 1,200 
diameters. After fig. 4, c, i, PI. IV. Quart. Journ. Micr. 
Sci.,” New Series, 1868. 
Fig. 3. A “ Cyatholith,” from the chalk of Sussex, magnified to a 
similar degree. Ibid. fig. 5, 6, c. 
Fig. 4. A cluster of “ Coccospheres,” of the loose type, about ^foth inch in 
diameter, from the Atlantic mud. Ibid. fig. 7, d, and p. 209. 
Figs. 5 and 6. “Rhabdospheres” (Murray), from the Challenger sound- 
ings. After figs. 3 and 4, PI. III. vol. xxiii. “ Proc. Royal Soc.” 
Fig. 7. “The new Diatom.” Found a little to the North of the Heard 
Islands. Ibid. fig. 5. 
The woodcuts have been kindly lent by Messrs. Macmillan & Co. 
