St Nicholas [serial] . swithdrawn, bringing the particle of food with itinto the interior, where it is digested. Huxley regarded these tiny creatures as themost wonderful examples of animate existence,mainly on account of their extreme bits of wonderful jelly are they, butnevertheless they digest and assimilate food; theylive, grow, and maintain their existence in theface of destructive forces constantly opposed tothem. They have the ability to build a shell orexternal skeleton, which is always beautiful andoften complex in character. Another group of these lowly animals are th
St Nicholas [serial] . swithdrawn, bringing the particle of food with itinto the interior, where it is digested. Huxley regarded these tiny creatures as themost wonderful examples of animate existence,mainly on account of their extreme bits of wonderful jelly are they, butnevertheless they digest and assimilate food; theylive, grow, and maintain their existence in theface of destructive forces constantly opposed tothem. They have the ability to build a shell orexternal skeleton, which is always beautiful andoften complex in character. Another group of these lowly animals are thesalt-water forms called radiolarians. These arefound almost everywhere, but most abundantly intropical seas, where they swarm in myriads. Theymay be taken from the surface, but they have alsobeen dredged from a depth of nearly three miles. You may get some notion of the countless num-bers of these radiolarians and the millions of one known stratum of which, in the NicobarIslands, is two thousand feet in thickness. The. THE WONDERFUL GLASS SKELETON OF THE DELICATE GORGONETTA. (Gorgonetta mirabilis Haeckel.) 366 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS [Feb.,
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