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Most of the forms I have seen seem to bear a great 
resemblance to European species ; the names I give are for 
the most part mere approximations. 
The lirst that I saw was one shaped somewhat like a 
Paramoecium, but not so large; it was either a Kerona or 
Chilornonas ; with it was a small monad which moved very 
fast across the field of view. A few days later, in the same 
water, I found the Chilornonas undergoing subdivision, in 
some cases longitudinally, in some transversely. 
On another occasion, in some greenish matter, from a dried- 
up pool, which I had put in water, I found a few monads and 
conferva threads; a few days later the same water yielded 
myriads of monads, and, to my delight, the first Vorticella I 
had seen. I watched, with intense interest, the movements 
of its cilia, the sudden retraction and subsequent gradual 
extension of the stem; it seemed very like V. microstoma. 
I also found some Oscillatorire, and soon afterwards my first 
Rotifer, also some Anguilluke. 
Several months elapsed before anything fresh came under 
my notice, and then 1 saw some Amoebas, whose protean 
forms are always interesting to watch, as they extend a part 
of their protoplasm in the form of an ann, catch hold of, 
and eventually surround, a particle of food, causing it to 
enter into the body. Its substance is accommodating enough 
to make a mouth and stomach at any part. Associated with 
them I saw an Actinophrys , not distinguishable from A. sol, 
and a form which I took to be Glaucoma scintillans. I had 
not at this time adopted my present plan of drawing all new 
forms I saw, so I have no illustrations of these to give. 
Other objects, chiefly higher forms of marine life, occu¬ 
pied my attention for a long time, and there is an 
interval of nearly ten years before my next record of 
infusoria. Being one day in the Botanical Gardens, Mel¬ 
bourne, I noticed that the water of a small lagoon looked as 
if there ought to be plenty of infusoria and other micro¬ 
scopical desiderata present, and on a subsequent visit, 
shortly after, I collected some water which yielded several 
forms new to me, all of which are shown on plate II. 
Fig. 1. Euglypha alveolata, the external markings of which 
are very curious. Fig. 2, a Paramcecium-like form, in which, 
besides the outer row of cilia, there was on the curved side an 
inner row, also a large vacuole, possibly a contractile vesicle, 
but I have not noted it as such, and four smaller ones. Fig. 3, 
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