St Nicholas [serial] . ATURE^SatNCr-YOUNG fOLRS EDITED BY EDWARD F. BIG CLOW. WONDERFUL GLASS MODELS OFCURIOUS LITTLE ANIMALS At the American Museum of Natural History,New York City, there has been placed on exhibi-tion a series of skilfully constructed glassmodels of the beautiful and intricate shells ofcertain varieties of microscopic animals knownto scientists as protozoans. These glass modelsare the delicate handiwork of Mr. H. Miiller, whomade them under the direction of Messrs. Roy and B. E. Dahlgren of the Museum staff. Wonderful as are the protozoans themselves asviewed under m
St Nicholas [serial] . ATURE^SatNCr-YOUNG fOLRS EDITED BY EDWARD F. BIG CLOW. WONDERFUL GLASS MODELS OFCURIOUS LITTLE ANIMALS At the American Museum of Natural History,New York City, there has been placed on exhibi-tion a series of skilfully constructed glassmodels of the beautiful and intricate shells ofcertain varieties of microscopic animals knownto scientists as protozoans. These glass modelsare the delicate handiwork of Mr. H. Miiller, whomade them under the direction of Messrs. Roy and B. E. Dahlgren of the Museum staff. Wonderful as are the protozoans themselves asviewed under microscopes, ones admiration iseven more excited by the mechanical skill thatproduced the large and correctly detailed illustrations, much reduced in size,like those accompanying this article, cannot dojustice to the exquisite beauty of the models. Many protozoans are so simple in structure thatthey consist of only a tiny cell without any cover-ing. They have no legs, but extend any part of thejelly-like body in the form of slender, finger-like .JniiX KA
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