Four feet, wings, and fins . a genus of minute Crustaceans, and to the orderEntomostraca. They may be found in clear orstagnant water, and are some of the animals whichhelp to make the sea luminous. Now, let us cutoff the tail of this little lobster, and place it undera reflecting microscope, for you see I have one glassjust for very small objects. The feathers at the endof the two-pronged tail, are the Cyclops fins or 500 REVELATIONS OF THE MICROSCOPE. Cilia with which he swims. Now, do each one ofyou notice those two little purses on each side ofthe mother Cyclops eggs, and if you will obser
Four feet, wings, and fins . a genus of minute Crustaceans, and to the orderEntomostraca. They may be found in clear orstagnant water, and are some of the animals whichhelp to make the sea luminous. Now, let us cutoff the tail of this little lobster, and place it undera reflecting microscope, for you see I have one glassjust for very small objects. The feathers at the endof the two-pronged tail, are the Cyclops fins or 500 REVELATIONS OF THE MICROSCOPE. Cilia with which he swims. Now, do each one ofyou notice those two little purses on each side ofthe mother Cyclops eggs, and if you will observeclosely, you will see the Cyclops young in severalstages. They look like little crabby bugs. Thesmallest one has just been hatched. Another, alittle larger is eight days old ; another, fifteen, andanother more than a month old. You see the largestone is beginning to take the form of its Each one of the mothers bags contains as many asforty eggs. All of the Entomostraca are coveredwith hard, horny shells. Here is a Cypris whichseems to be a tiny bivalve, for it has its body en-closed in a shell of two horny pieces. They havefeathered legs and antenncE which serve them forfins and Cilia. They are a very common species,and swim with great rapidity. Remove its shell 501 REVELATIONS OF THE MICROSCOPE. and you have an animal like this. Do you see thatbeautiful red object ? That is a Daphnia, and it is agenus of mollusks belonging to the order Brachio-podo. This is always a favorite microscopic object. Please, Mr. Dumas, are such little creatures asthese any good ? asked May. Certainly they are; for nothing God has wroughtis for naught They are very useful in cleansing
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