The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . genus which he called Chaos,at the end of hla class Vrrm^s. Lamarck, Omelin, andothers followed Miiller in his understanding at made Infutmria tlie flftli class of liadintn, dividedinto two orders, Kotifera and Ilt/tnoi/eiua. See Microzua,Poln/OMtrica. 2. A class of minute, mostly microscopic, ani-malcules, provisionally regarded as the highestclass of Protocoa. TheyarecndoplaHlIc, having a nu-cleus; there is a mouth and a nidlmcntary stomach org


The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . genus which he called Chaos,at the end of hla class Vrrm^s. Lamarck, Omelin, andothers followed Miiller in his understanding at made Infutmria tlie flftli class of liadintn, dividedinto two orders, Kotifera and Ilt/tnoi/eiua. See Microzua,Poln/OMtrica. 2. A class of minute, mostly microscopic, ani-malcules, provisionally regarded as the highestclass of Protocoa. TheyarecndoplaHlIc, having a nu-cleus; there is a mouth and a nidlmcntary stomach orgastric civity ; there are vihratile cilia or flagella. but noproper pseudoiHxIia. M4>Htarea(|iiaticand free-swimming,anu some are internal parasites; but others form ciilonics 3092 by budding, and when adult are fixed to some solid body consists of an outer transparent cuticle, a corti-cal layer of firm sarcode, and a central mass of soft or semi-liquid sarcode, which acts as a stomach, and in which vac-uoles may appear, A nucleus, which is supposed to bean ovarj, liaving attached to it a spherical particle, the. htfusoria in a Drop of Water, highly J, Astasia hamatodts; 2, a. Phacus longicauda ,* 3,3, Stentotfolyntorphus; 4. Codasiga botrytis 5. Dinobryon sertularia; 6,Rkxpid4>dcftetron splendidum; 7, Anthophysa vegetans; Z, Den-drosonta virgaria; 9, Acineta/errutn equinum; vi, Podophryagetnntipara; 11, Chilodon cucullus; 1217, Stylonychia fnytilus;\-ib, the same, about to separate; lar, the same, full niSpfuzrophrya(parasites!; 13«, Vorticelia tnicrpstomai 13*,the same, individualsseparating; 14, Aspidisca lyncaster, nucleolus, supposed to be a spermatic gland, is embedded in the cortical substance. Contractions of the body ai-eeffected by sarcode fibers. Reproduction takes place va-riously. The cilia or flagella are not only oi-gans of loco-motion, but form currents by which food is carritd intothe mouth. The Infumria have been variously subdi-


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