. The animal creation: a popular introduction to zoology. Zoology. EHIZOPODA. 19 the materials of which it is constructed to the persistent agency of these microscopic organisms. Thus we perceive a film of living slime—for such essen- tially these creatures seem to be, moulded into a thousand beauteous forms, labouring incessantly—has silently pro- duced results on which we can but gaze mth awe. CHAPTEK IIL SPONGES.* There seems to be little relationship between the Foraminifera we have just been speaking of and the race of sponges—in fact, few things could be pointed out more unlike each othe
. The animal creation: a popular introduction to zoology. Zoology. EHIZOPODA. 19 the materials of which it is constructed to the persistent agency of these microscopic organisms. Thus we perceive a film of living slime—for such essen- tially these creatures seem to be, moulded into a thousand beauteous forms, labouring incessantly—has silently pro- duced results on which we can but gaze mth awe. CHAPTEK IIL SPONGES.* There seems to be little relationship between the Foraminifera we have just been speaking of and the race of sponges—in fact, few things could be pointed out more unlike each other. Infinitely. IMG. 7.— diversified in their shape, the sponges, as we all know, are distributed along the shores of every * Spongia, a 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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