. The animal creation: a popular introduction to zoology. Zoology. CLASSIFICATION. 7 touch, does it not feel ? The flower that shuts its bells as evening comes, and seems to go to sleep, is it insensitive ? We cannot tell. To move from place to place, to have the power of locomotion, has been said to be an attribute of animals, whereby they are distinguishable. Yet although we see the Volvox* (Tig. 1), rolling through. Fig. 1.—volvox. the drop that forms its space with slow majestic movement, wielding upon its surface countless living filaments, we are forced to believe the chemist w^ho inform
. The animal creation: a popular introduction to zoology. Zoology. CLASSIFICATION. 7 touch, does it not feel ? The flower that shuts its bells as evening comes, and seems to go to sleep, is it insensitive ? We cannot tell. To move from place to place, to have the power of locomotion, has been said to be an attribute of animals, whereby they are distinguishable. Yet although we see the Volvox* (Tig. 1), rolling through. Fig. 1.—volvox. the drop that forms its space with slow majestic movement, wielding upon its surface countless living filaments, we are forced to believe the chemist w^ho informs us that it is a If we take a drop of water from any stagnant pool and place it under a microscope, w^e shall soon per- ceive that it contains a great variety of living organisms, very diverse in their shape, and all equally * Volvo, I roll t The Vol vox globator, of which a figure is given in the text, is acknowledged to be a vegetable jji-oduction. In shape it seems a microscopic globe, rolling slowly on its axis. More accurately- examined, we perceive the body to be formed of a transparent spherical membrane, studded with small green dots, and having all its surface covered over with vibrating filaments of infinite minute- ness, which produce currents in the surrounding water, and thus cause the revolution of the little sphere, as well as its Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Jones, Thomas Rymer, 1810-1880. London : Society for Promoting Knowledge
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