. The history of creation; or, The development of the earth and its inhabitants by the action of natural causes. A popular exposition of the doctrine of evolution in general, and of that of Darwin, Goethe, and Lamarck in particular. t may bear thename of Mediator, or Gatallacta. The Protista of the fifth class, the Tram-weavers, orLahyrinthuleoB, are of a no less puzzling nature; they werelately discovered by Cienkowski on piles in sea water (). They are spindle-shaped cells, mostly of a yellow- FiG. 13.—Labyrinthula macro-cystia (much enlarged). Belowis a large group of accamnlatedcells
. The history of creation; or, The development of the earth and its inhabitants by the action of natural causes. A popular exposition of the doctrine of evolution in general, and of that of Darwin, Goethe, and Lamarck in particular. t may bear thename of Mediator, or Gatallacta. The Protista of the fifth class, the Tram-weavers, orLahyrinthuleoB, are of a no less puzzling nature; they werelately discovered by Cienkowski on piles in sea water (). They are spindle-shaped cells, mostly of a yellow- FiG. 13.—Labyrinthula macro-cystia (much enlarged). Belowis a large group of accamnlatedcells, one of which, on the left,is separating itself; above aretwo single cells which are glidingalong the threads of the reti-form labyrinth which form their* tramways. ochre colour, which aresometimes united into adense mass, sometimesmove about in a verypeculiar way. They form,in a manner not yet explained, a retiform frame of en-tangled threads (compared to a labyrinth), and on thedense filamentous tramways of this frame they glideabout. From the shape of the cells of the Labyrlnthuleas wemight consider them as the simplest plants, from theirmotion as the simplest animals, but in reality they areneither animals nor 6o THE HISTOKY OF CREATION.
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