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ON
MOLECULAR and MICROSCOPIC •SCIENCE
VOLUME THE SECOND
LOKDON: PRINTKI) BY
SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., KKW-STUEET SQUAKH
AND PARLIAMENT STREET
Fig. 118, p. 107.
GALEOLARIA LUTEA.
{Froyitixpiece to Vol. J I.
ON
\MOLECULAR -^^
MICROSCOPIC SCIENCE J^^^^
BY MAEY JOMEEVILLE
ACTIIOU OF 'THE MECHANISM OF THE HEAVENS ' ' PHYSICxVL GEOGILVPirj ' COXNBCIIOX OF THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES ' ETC.
Deus magniis in magnis, maximus in minimis — St. Angiistino
In Two Volumes — Vol. II.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET
1869
The riijht of trandation id reserved
CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.
PART III.
ANIMAL ORaANISMS.
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FUNCTIONS OF THE ANIMAL FRAME |
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PROTOZOA |
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HYDROZOA ZOOPHYTES |
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ANTHOZOA ZOOPHYTES |
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ANNIJLOSA, OR WORMS |
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ECHINODEEMATA |
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THE CRUSTACEA |
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CIRRIPEDIA . |
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BRYOZOA, OR POLYZOA |
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X. |
TUNICATA, OR ASCIDTANS |
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XI. |
MOLLUSCA INDEX |
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ILLUSTRATIONS
THE SECOND VOLUME.
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118. Galeolaria lutea (To^/^O |
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86. Ainceba princeps . . . . . |
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87. Actinoplirjs sol . |
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88. Acantliometra bulbosa i |
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89. Eucyrtidium cranoides \ {Hacckel) "^'^ |
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90. Dictyopodiiim trilobum J |
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91, Podocyrtis Scliombiirgi . . . . |
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92. Aulacautha scolymantha \ |
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93. Actinomma drymodes \.{Hacc7cd) |
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94. Haliomma echinaster J . . • |
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95. Simple Ehizopods |
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96. Gromia oviformis |
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97. Various forms of Foraminiiera . |
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98. Simple disk of Orbitolites complanatus . |
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99. Animal of Orbitolites complanatus |
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100. Eosalina ornata (Fo^/<;?;) |
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101. Section of Faujasina |
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102. Interior of the Operculina |
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103. Section of Sponge |
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104. Paramoecium caudatum . |
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105. Kerona silurus .... |
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106. Noctiluca .... |
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107. Vorticellse .... |
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108. Acineta ..... |
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109. Thread-cells and darts . |
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110. Hydra fusca .... |
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111. Syncoryna Sarsii with Medusa-buds |
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ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE SECOND VOLUME.
PIO.
113. Otolites of magnified Thaumantias
114. Development of Medusa-buds
115. Rhizostoma
116. Cydippe pileus and Beroe Forskalia
117. Praya diphyes . -»
118. Galoolaria lutea . . U 77,^/,/n *
119. Apolemia eontorta . j ' . . . fofac
120. Physophora liydrostatiea ^
121. The Physalia
122. Velella spirans ( F(;>9A/) .
123. Alcyonian polypes, highly magnified
124. Polype of Alcyonidium elegans .
125. Spieula of Alcyonium digitatum .
126. Red coral branch
127. Red coral greatly magnified
128. Tubipora musica .
129. Actinian polype . * .
130. Lobophylla angulosa 131 Nervous system of Leech
132. Foot of Nais
133. Terebella conchilega
134. Pushing poles of Serpula
135. Foot of a Polynoe
136. Braehionus pala .
137. Common Rotifer .
138. Section of shell of Echinus
139. Sucker-plate of Sea-Egg .
140. Section of a sucker-plate
141. Spine of Echinus miliaris
142. Pluteus of the Echinus .
143. Larvse of Echinus in various stages of development
144. Skeleton of Synapta
145. Wheel-like plates of Chirodata violacea
146. Ear of Crab
147. Section of a Crab
148. Young of Carcinus moenas in various stages of development
149. Lucifer, a stomapod crustacean .
150. Female Cyclops .
151. Cypris ....
152. Section of Daphnia pulex
153. Balanus culcatus
154. Tentacles or feet of the Balanus
* From Yoght's ' Sj-phonopliores de la Mer dc Nice.
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iii ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE SECOND VOLUME.
FIG.
155. Section of Lepas anatifora , '.
156. Development of Balaniis balanoides
157. Lepas . . . .'!
158. Cells of Lepraliai
159. Cellularia ciliata and Bugula avicularia
160. Magnified group of Perophora .
161. Highly magnified Perophora
162. Ascidia virginea .
163. Salpa maxima
164. Young of Salpa zonaria
165. Cardium or Cockle
166. Foot of Cockle .
1 67. Section of shell of Pinna transversely teethe direction of its prisms
168. Membranous basis of the shell of th-e Pinna ...
169. Section of nacreous lining of the shell of. Avicula margaritacea
(pearl oyster) .
170. Tongue of Helix aspersa .
171. Palate of Trochus zizyphinus
172. Grramdated Trochus
173. Tongue of Limpet
174. Whelk .
175. The Crowned Eolis
176. Tongue-teeth of Eolis coronata
177. Hyalsea and Clio
178. Clione borealis .
179. Cuttle Fish
180. Arm of Octopus .
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MOLECULAE AM) MICEOSCOPIC SCIENCE.
PAET ni.
ANIMAL OEGANISMS.
SECTION I.
FUNCTIONS OF THE ANIMAL FEAME.
Although animal life is only known to us as a mani- festation of divine power not to be explained, yet the various phases of life, growth, and structure in animals, from the microscopic Monad to Man, are legitimate sub- jects of physical inquiry, being totally independent of those high moral and religious sentiments which are peculiar to Man alone.
The same simple elements chemically combined in de- finite but different proportions form the base of animal as well as of vegetable life. But besides the elementary gases and carbon, many substances, simple and com- pound, are found in the animal frame ; the phosphate and carbonate of lime, iron which colours the blood, and common salt which, with the exception of water, is the only article of food we use in a mineral state. Animals derive their nourishment, both directly and in- directly, from vegetables. Their incapacity to change
VOL. II. B
2 SARCODE AND MUSCLE. part hi.
inert into living matter is one of the most characteristic distinctions between the animal and vegetable king- doms.
Protoplasm was shown to be rudimentary formative vegetable matter : so Sarcode, or rudimentary flesh, forms the whole or part of every animal structure. It is a semi-fluid substance, consisting of an albuminous base, mixed with particles of oil in a state of very fine di- vision. It is tenacious, extensile, contractile, and dia- phanous, reflecting light more than water, but less than oil. It is rendered perfectly transparent by citric acid, and is dyed brown by iodine. This substance, in a ho- mogeneous state, constitutes the whole frame of the lowest grade of animal life ; but when gradually differ- entiated into cell-wall and cell-contents, it becomes the origin of animal structure from that which has little more than mere existence to man himself; in fact, cel- lular origin and cellular structure prevail throughout every class of animal life. Unicellular plants and ani- mals live for themselves independently and alone ; but the cells which form part of the higher and compound individuals of both kingdoms, may be said to have two lives, one peculiarly their own, and another depending on that of the organized beings of which they form a part.
Flesh or muscle, which is organized sarcode, consists of two parts, namely, bundles of muscular fibre im- bedded in areolar tissue. Nervous matter also consists of two parts, differing much in appearance and struc- ture, the one being cellular, the other fibrous. The vital activity of the nerves far surpasses that of every other tissue ; but there is an inherent irritability in muscular fibre altogether indej)endent of nervous action : both the nervous and muscular tissues are subject to decay and waste.
The blood, which is the ultimate result of the assimi- lation of the food and respiration, conveys nourishment
SECT. I. WASTE AND REPAIR. 3
to all the tissues during- its circulation ; for mth every breath, with every effort, muscular or mental, with every motion, voluntary or involuntary, at every instant of life, asleep or awake, part of the muscular and ner- vous substances becomes dead, separates from the living part, is returned to the circulation, combines with the oxygen of the blood, and is removed from the system, the waste being ordinarily in exact proportion to the exertion, mental and physical. Hence food, assimilated into blood, is necessary to supply nourishment to the muscles, and to restore strength to the nervous system, on which all our vital motions depend ; for, by the nerves, volition acts upon living matter. Waste and repair is a law of nature, but when nature begins to decay, the waste exceeds the supply.
However, something more than food is necessary, for the oxygen in the blood would soon be exhausted were it not constantly restored by inspiration of atmospheric air. The perpetual combination of the oxygen of the air with the carbon of the blood derived from the food is a real combustion, and the cause of animal heat ; but if the carbonic acid gas produced by that chemical union were not continually given out by the respiratory organs, it would become injurious to the animal system. Thus respiration and the circulation of the blood are mutually dependent; the activity of the one is exactly propor- tional to that of the other : both are increased by exer- cise and nervous excitement.
External heat is no less essential to animals than to vegetables ; the development of a germ or egg is as de- pendent on heat as that of a seed. The amount of heat generated by respiration and that carried off by the air is a more or less constant quantity ; hence, in hot countries, rice and other vegetable diet is sufficient, but as the cold increases with the latitude, more and
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4 THE HEART AND RESPIRATION. part hi.
more animal food or hydrocarbon is requisite for tlie production of heat.
The waste of the tissues, and the aeration of the vital juices, that is, the exchange of the respiratory gases, are common to all animals. The heart, upon whose ex- pansions and contractions the circulation of the blood depends, is represented in the lower animals by pro- pelling organs of a variety of forms ; and the organs of respiration differ exceedingly, according to the medium in which the animals live. Water, both fresh and salt, though a suffocating element to land animals, contains a great deal of air, iiot only in the state of gas, but also in solution, the quantity in solution being directly as the pressure ; so that animals living in the deepest re- cesses of the ocean breathe as freely as those that live on land, but with respiratory organs of a very different structure. In the lowest classes, which have no respi- ratory organs at all, the gases are exchanged through their thin delicate skins.
The mechanical forces act within the living being according to the same laws as they do in the external world : the chemical powers too, which are the cause of digestion, heat, and respiration, follow the same laws of definite and quantitative proportion as they do in inert matter ; but neither the mechanical forces, nor the physical powers, could create a germ ; nor could they even awaken its dormant state to living energy, unless a vital power existed in it, the origin of which is beyond the reach of man.
Animals are endowed with nerve-force, in addition to mechanical force and the physical powers which are common to them and vegetables ; a force which consti- tutes their prime distinction, which is superior to all the other powers from its immediate connection with mind, and which becomes more evident, and more evi- dently under the control of the animal, in proportion as
SECT. I. THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. 5
the animal approaclies tlie higher grades of life, and only attains its perfect development in the hnman race.
The bones of man and the higher animals are clothed with a system of muscles, so attached that the head, eyes, limbs, &c., can be moved in various directions. In each of these muscles the fibres of two sets of nerves ramify, namely, the sensory and the motor nerves.
The sensory nerves convey external impressions, to the brain, and by them alone the mind is rendered con- scious of external objects. The impressions made by light and sound upon the eye and the ear, or by me- chanical touch on the body, are conveyed by the sensory nerves to the brain, where they are perceived, though the impressions take place at a distance from it. Con- versely, the mind or ;will acts through the brain on the motor nerves, which by alternately contracting, relaxing, and directing the muscles, produces muscular motion. Thus the motor nerves convey the emotions of the mind to the external world, and the sensory nerves convey the impressions made by the external world to the mind. By these admirable discoveries. Sir Charles Bell has proved that "^ we are placed between two worlds, the invisible and the material ; ' our nervous system is the bond of connection. The connection, however, between the mind and the brain is unknown : it has never been explained, and is probably inexplicable; yet it is evident that the mind or will, though im- material, manifests itself by acting on matter ; that is, as a power which stimulates the nerves, the nerve-force acting on the muscles. Mental excitement calls forth the most powerful muscular strength, and an iron will can resist the greatest nervous excitement. The ner- vous and muscular forces are perpetually called into action, because, for distinct perception, the muscles re- quire to be adjusted. Mind is passive as well as active : we may see an object without perceiving it, and we may
6 NER VE FORCE. pakt hi.
hear a sound without attending to it. We must look in order to see, listen in order to hear, and handle in order to feel ; that is, we must adjust the muscular apparatus of all our senses, of our eyes, ears, &c., if we would have a distinct perception of external exciting objects : and that is accomplished by the power of mind acting upon matter.
Dr. Carpenter has shown that it is by a series of forces acting upon matter that man conveys his ideas to man, the sonorous undulations of the atmosphere being the medium between the two. On one side the will, or power of mind, acts upon the nerves, nerve-force acts upon the muscles of speech, and these muscles, while in the act of speaking, produce sonorous undulations in the atmosphere. On the other side, these undula- tions are communicated by the mechanism of the ear to the auditory nerves, exciting nerve-force, and nerve-force acts upon the mind of the hearer. ' Thus the conscious- ness of the speaker acts upon the consciousness of the hearer by a well-connected series of powers.'
Nerve-force generates, directly or indirectly, light, heat, chemical power, and electricity. When the optic nerve is pressed in the dark, a luminous ring is seen round the eye, and a blow on the face excites a flash of light. Nervous excitement, by accelerating respiration, increases the chemical combination of the oxygen of the air with the carbon of the blood, and thus produces animal heat. But the development of electricity by nervous and muscular force, is one of the most unex- pected and singular results of physiological research.
MM. Matteucci and Du Bois Reymond have proved that the intensity of the nervous and muscular forces is at a maximum when the muscles are contracted ; and that if each arm of a man be put in contact with a wire of a galvanometer so as to form an electric circuit, an instantaneous deviation of the needle will take place.
SECT. I. ELECTRIC CURRENTS IN THE MUSCLES, 7
now in one direction and now in the other, according as he contracts his right arm or his left. The electri- city thus evolved, when conveyed to the needle through several miles' length of coiled insulated wire, will cause a deflection amounting to sixty or seventy degrees, ac- cording to the strength of the man — that is, according to his muscular and nervous force ; the amount of the electricity being exactly in proportion to the amount of muscular force.
It appears that the electric currents in the nerves are eight or ten times stronger than those in the muscles. M. Helmholtz found that the time required to contract a muscle, together with the time required to rela,x it again, is not more than the third of a second, and is a constant quantity, for the compensation of energy pre- vails also in organic nature. He also found that the motion or velocity of the electric current in a man is at the rate of 200 feet in a second. The electric equi- valent, as determined by M. Helmholtz, is equal to the electricity produced in a voltaic battery by the seven millionth part of a milligramme of zinc consumed in the ten-thousandth part of a second, a milligramme being the 0'015432 part of a grain.
The contraction and muscular action or mechanical labour produced by the passage of an electric current through a nerve is 27,000 times greater than the me- chanical labour which results ft-om the heat disengaged by the oxidation of that small quantity of zinc requisite to generate the electricity ; that is to say, the mecha- nical labour really produced by the contraction of the muscles is enormously greater than the labour corre- sponding to the zinc oxidized. In fact, the electric ex- citement of a nerve is analogous to an incandescent particle or electric spark that sets fire to a great mass of gunpowder. This result, and the association between the greatest activity of respiration and the intensity of
8 BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD. part hi.
the muscular energy, led M. Matteucci to suspect tliat a chemical action must take place in the interior of a muscle during its contraction ; and he found by experi- ment that there actually is what he calls a muscular respiration, namely, that the muscles themselves absorb oxygen, and give out carbonic acid gas and nitrogen when contracted. This kind of respiration is more or less common to all animals ; if impeded, the blood is imperfectly oxygenized, and loss of animal heat is the consequence. The heat that is perpetually escaping from animals is replaced, by the combustion of the carbon of the tissues or of the food with the oxygen inhaled by the lungs and the skin.
In the highest class of animal life the brain is at once the seat of intelligence and sensibility, and the origin of the nervous system. In the lower animals intelli- gence and sensibility decrease exactly in proportion to the deviation of their nervous system from this high standard. The forms of the nervous system are more and more degraded as the animals sink in the scale of being, till at last creatures are found in which nerves have only been discovered with the microscope ; others apparently have none, consequently they have little or no sensibility.
The brain and the spinal cord enclosed in the ver- tebrae of the backbone form a nervous system, which in the vertebrated creation is equal to all the contingencies and powers of these animated beings, but is beyond all comparison most perfect in the human race. The brain alone is the seat of consciousness, for the spinal cord, though intimately connected with it, and of a similar ' mysterious albuminous electric pulp,' appears to have no relation to the faculties of perception and thought, yet it is essential to the continuance of life. It is a distinct nervous centre which generates muscular energy in man and animals corresponding to
SECT. T. NERVOUS SYSTEM. 9
external impressions, but without sensation, and is en- tirely independent of the will ; the vegetative functions of respiration, the contractions of the heart, circulation of the blood, and digestion, are carried on under every circumstance, even during sleep. The reason of their being independent of sensation and the will is, that the nerves in the organs performing these functions never reach the brain, which is the seat of intelligence and sensation, but they form what is called the reflex system ; for any impressions made upon them are carried to the upper part of the spinal cord alone, and are reflected back again to the muscles of the heart, lungs, &c., which, by their contractions, produce these involuntary motions. For instance, the flow of blood into the cavities of the heart while dilating, acts upon the nerves, and these excite a rhythmical movement in the muscular fibres of the heart. For there is a vital contractility in muscular tissue which is one of the most universal attributes of living beings, and is pro- bably the sole cause of motion in the lowest grades of life, and the movements produced by it in the higher grades are in all cases the most directly connected with the vegetative functions. The involuntary reflex system of nerves constitutes the chief locomotive power in a number of the lower animals ; but it forms a continually decreasing portion of the whole nervous system in pro- portion as animals rise in the scale of life, till in man its very existence has been overlooked. If the spinal cord were destroyed, instant death would be the conse- quence; whereas infants born without brain have sucked and lived for a day or two.
There are numerous actions, especially among the lower animals, as little under the influence of the will or intelligence as the reflex nerves, which nevertheless de- pend upon sensation for their excitement. The sensa- tion may call the muscular apparatus into action with-
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out any exertion of reason or will, in such a manner as to produce actions as directly and obviously adapted to the well-being of the individual as the reflex system. For example, a grain of dust irritates the nostrils, and in- voluntarily excites the complicated muscular movements concerned in the act of sneezing. This class of actions, which is called sensori-motor, or consensual, includes most of the purely instinctive motions of the lower animals, which, being prompted by sensations, cannot be assigned to the reflex group.
Purely emotional movements are nearly allied to the preceding. Sensation excites a mental feeling, or im- pulse, which reacts upon the muscular system without calling either the will or the instinct into exercise. These emotional movements are often performed in op- position to the strongest efforts of the will, as when a sense of something ridiculous may excite irresistible laughter at an improper time. It is probable that the strong emotions exhibited by many of the lower ani- mals, which have been ascribed to instinct, are referable to this group. ^
The movements of such animals as have no nerves are merely owing to the vital contractility of muscular fibre.
In the highest province of animal life, which includes the mammalia, birds, reptiles, and fishes, the general structure of the nervous system consists of a double lobed brain, from whence a spinal cord proceeds, pro- tected by articulated bones, which extend along the back of the animals, and from thence nerve-fibres extend to every part of the body. But in order to suit a great variety of forms, this system undergoes many modifica- tions. In all the lower grades of life that have nerves, the system chiefly consists of small globular masses, or
* The nervous system is ably explained in Dr. Carpenter's ' Manual of Physiology.'
SECT. I. OF THE LOWER ANIMALS. 1 1
nuclei, of nervous matter, technically called ganglia, wMch are centres of nervous energy, each of which is endovred w^ith its own peculiar properties ; the nervous cords and filaments proceeding from them are merely organs of transmission. The arrangement of these centres of nerve-force is symmetrical, or unsymmetrical, according to the form of the animal.
In the lower portion of Articulated animals, such as insects, Crustacea, annelids, worms, &c. &c., there is a double cord extending along the ventral side of the animal, united at equal intervals by double nerve-centres, or ganglia. These two cords diverge towards the ujDper end, surround the gullet, and unite again above that tube to form a distinct bilobed princi23al nerve-centre or brain. A thii'd form of the nervous system is only a ring round the gullet; the points in it from whence the nerves radiate are swollen nerve-centres, or ganglia. Those on the sides and upper parts of the ring represent the brain, and supply the eyes, mouth, &c., with nerves : other centres, connected with the lower side of the ring, send nerves to the locomotive organs, viscera, and re- spiratory organs. In animals of a still lower grade there are single nuclei irregularly scattered, but in every case they are centres of energy from whence filaments are sent to the different parts of the creature. The last and lowest system consists of filamentous nerves, chiefly microscopic.
Intelligence, or the mental principle, in animals differs in degree, though not in kind, from that in the human race. It is higher in proportion as the nervous system, especially the brain, approximates in structure to that of man ; but even in many of the lower orders may be traced the dawn of that intelligence which has made man supreme on earth. Every atom in the human frame, as well as in that of other animals, undergoes a periodi- cal change by continual waste and renovation ; but the
12 INTELLIGENCE OF ANIMALS. part m.
same frame remains : the abode is clianged, not the inhabitant. Yet it is generally assumed that the living- principle of animals is extinguished when the abode finally crumbles into dust, a tacit acknowledgment of the doctrine of materialism ; for it is assuming that the high intelligence, memory, affection, fidelity, and con- science of a dog, or elephant, depend upon a combi- nation of the atoms of matter. To suppose that the vital spark is evanescent, while there is every reason to believe that the atoms of matter are imperishable, is admitting the superiority of matter over mind: an as- sumption altogether at variance with the result of geo- logical sequence; for Sir Charles Lyell observes, that 'sensation, instinct, the intelligence of the higher mammalia bordering on reason, and lastly the improvable reason of man himself, presents us with a picture of the ever-increasing dominion of mind over matter.'
The physical structure of a vast number of animals has been investigated from such as are a mere microscopic speck to the highest grade of animal life ; but very little is comparatively known of their intelligence and means of communication. We know not by what means a pointer and greyhound make an agreement to hunt together ; nor how each dog is not only aware that his companion possesses a property which he has not, but that by their united talents they might accomplish their purpose, which is merely sj)ort, for they never eat the game.^ The undulations of the air and water are no doubt the means by which most animals communicate ; but there is reason to believe that many inhabitants of the earth, air, and water are endowed with senses which we do not possess, and which we are consequently in- capable of comprehending.
2 A pointer and greyhound, belonging to a friend of the author's, re- peatedly brought home hares. Upon watching the dogs, the pointer was seen to find the hare, which was coursed and killed by the greyhound, Singular as this may seem, it is by no means unprecedented.
SECT. II. RHIZOPODA. 1 3
SECTION 11.
PROTOZOA.
The Protozoa are tlie very lowest forms of animal existence, the beginning and dawn of living things. They first appear as minnte shapeless particles of semi- fluid sarcode moving on the surface of the waters. The pseudopodia, or false feet, with which they move, are merely lobes of their own substance which they project and retract. In creatures of a somewhat higher grade the form is definite, the pseudopodia, numerous and filamental, serving for locomotion and catching prey; and from the resemblance they bear to the slender roots of plants are called Ehizopods.^ The microscopic organisms possessing these means of locomotion and supply, are of incalculable multitudes, and of innumerable forms. Thus the waters, as of old, still ' bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life ; ' in them the lowest types of the two great kingdoms have their origin, yet they are diverse in the manifestation of the living principle, that slender but decided line which separates the vegetable from the animal Amoeba.
Class I. — Ehizopoda.
The Amoeba, which is the simplest of the group, is merely a mass of semi-fluid jelly, 'changing itself into a greater variety of forms than the fabled Proteus, laying hold of its food without members, swallowing
' From rhizon, a root, and pons, podos, a foot.
AMCEBA PRINCEPS:
PART III.
it without a mouth, digesting it without a stomach, appropriating its nutritious material without absorbent vessels or a circulating system, moving from place to place without muscles, feeling (if it has any power to do so) without nerves, multiplying itself without eggs, and not only this, but in many instances forming shelly coverings of a symmetry and complexity not surpassed by those of any testaceous animal.'
Such is the description given by Dr. Carpenter of the Amoeba and its allies. The Amoeba princeps, which
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Fig. 86. Amoeba princeps.
is the type of the naked group, fig. 86, is merely a shapeless mass of semi-fluid sarcode, coated by a soft, pellucid and highly contractile film, called diaphane by Mr. W. J. Carter, and in many forms of Amoeba the whole is inclosed in a transparent covering. It is in the interior semi-fiuid sarcode alone, that the coloured and granular particles are diffused, on which the hue and opacity of the body depend, for the ectosarc or external coat is transparent as glass. These creatures, which vary in size from the -^-^-qq to the -^ of an inch in diameter, are found in the sea, but chiefly in ponds
SECT. II. ITS MOTIONS AND FOOD, 15
inhabited by fresh-water plants. They move irregularly over the surface of the water, slowly and continually changing their form by stretching out portions of their gelatinous mass in blunt finger-like extensions, and then drawing the rest of it into them ; thus causing the whole mass to change its place. Before it protrudes these pseudopodia or false feet, there is a rush of the internal semi-fluid matter to the spot, due to the highly contractile power of the diaphane, which is often so thin and transparent as to be scarcely perceptible.
When the creature in its progress meets with a particle of food, it spreads itself over it, draws it into its mass, vdthin which a temporary hollow or vacuole is made for its reception ; there it is digested, the refuse is squeezed out through the external surface ; the nutri- tious liquid that is deft in the vacuole seems to be dispersed in the sarcode, for the vacuole disappears. An Amceba often spreads itself over a Diatom, draws it into a vacuole newly made to receive and digest it ; the siliceous shells of the diatom are pushed towards the exterior, and are ultimately thrust out ; then the vacuole disappears, either immediately or soon after. These improvised stomachs are the earliest form of a digestive system.
Besides the vacuoles of which there may be several at a time, the slow and nearly rhythmical pulsations of a vesicle containing a subtle fluid may be seen, which changes its position in the interior of the sarcode with every motion of the Amceba. It gradually increases in size, then diminishes to a point, and as some of the digestive vacuoles nearest the surface of the animal are observed to undergo distension when the vesicle con- tracts, and to empty themselves gradually as it fills. Dr. Carpenter thinks it can hardly be doubted that the function of the vesicle is to maintain a continual move- ment of nutritious matter, among a system of channels
1 6 REPRODUCTION OF AMCERyE. pakt hi.
and vacuoles excavated in the substance of the body. It is the first obscure rudiment of a circulating system.
In all the Amoebse the semi-fluid sarcode, with the numerous bodies suspended in it, rotates at a varied rate within the pellucid coat ; a motion presumed to be for respiration, that is to exchange carbonic acid gas for oxygen, so indispensable for animal life."^
Although like other animals, the Amoeba cannot change inorganic into organic matter, as the vegetable Amoeba can do, these two Protozoa are similar in one mode of reproduction ; for portions of the animal Amoeba or even one of the pseudopodia separate from the gela- tinous mass, move to a little distance on the surface of the water, and become independent Amoebse.
With a high microscopic power, many bodies besides the digesting vacuoles and pulsating vesicles may be seen imbedded in the sarcode of the Amoeba princeps ; namely, coloured molecules, granules, fat-globules, and nuclei. All these bodies were seen by Mr. Carter, in certain Amoebina he found at Bombay, together with what he believed to be female reproductive cells, and motile particles similar to spermatozoids, or male fer- tilizing particles.
The Actinophrys, a genus of the order Radiolaria, differs from the Amoeba princeps in having a definite nearly spherical form with slender root-like filamental pseudopodia radiating from its surface in all directions as from a centre. They taper from the base to the apex, and sometimes end in knobs like a pin's head, but vary much in length and number, and can be extended and retracted till they are out of sight. They are exter- nally of a firmer substance than the sarcode of the body, which is merely a viscid fluid inclosed in a pel- lucid film. The Actinophrys sol, which is the type of
* ' On the Amoeba princeps and its reproductive cells,' by Mr J. H. Carter: Annals of Natural History, July 1863.
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ACTINOPHRYS SOL.
the genus, is a sphere of from -j^Vo^ to -^^ of an inch in diameter, with slender contractile filaments the length of its diameter extending from its surface as rays from the sun. It can draw them in and flatten its body so as to be easily mistaken for an Amoeba. This creature, which is common in fresh-water pools where aquatic plants are growing and even in the sea, has little power of moving about like the Amoeba; it depends almost entirely on its pseudopodia for food. They have an adhesive property, for when any animalcule or diatom
Fig. 87. Actinophrys sol.— A, ordinary form ; B, act of division or conjugation ; c, pro cess of feeding ; d, discharge of fsecal matter, a and b', o o, contractile vesicles.
comes in contact with one of them, they adhere to it ; the filament then begins to retract, and as it shortens the adjacent filaments apply their points to the captive, enclose it, coalesce round it, the whole is drawn within the surface of the Actinophrys, the captive is imbedded in the sarcode mass, and passes into a vacuole where it is digested, and then the pseudopodia thrust out the undigested matter by a process exactly the reverse of that by which the food was taken in (d fig. 87). The pseudopodia are believed by Professor Rupert Jones to
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i8 REPRODUCTION OF ACTINOPHRYNA. pabt hi.
have the power of stnnnmg their prey, for if an animal- cule be touched by one of them, it instantly becomes motionless, and does not resume its activity for some time. The pulsations of the contractile vesicle are very regular, and its duty is the same as in the Amoeba princeps.
The Actinophryna are propagated like the lowest vegetables by gemmation and conjugation, shown in B fig. 87 ; moreover Mr. Carter saw the production of germ-cells and motile particles in the Actinophrys exactly after the mode already described in the Amoeba.
Mr. Carter mentions an instance in which the Actino- phrys sol showed what may possibly be a certain degree of instinct. An individual was in the same vessel with vegetable cells charged with particles of starch ; one of the cells had been ruptured and a little of the internal matter was protruded through the crevice. The Actino- phrys came, extracted one of the starch-grains, and crept to a distance ; it returned, and although there were no more starch-grains in sight, the creature managed to take them out from the interior of the cell one by one, always retiring to a distance and returning again, showing that it knew its way back, and where the starch-grains were to be found. On another occasion Mr. Carter saw an Actinophrys station itself close to the ripe spore cell of a plant, and as the young zoospores came out one after another, the Actinophrys caught every one of them even to the last and then retired to a distance as if instinctivety consciotis that no more remained. Like Amoebse these animals select their food, but notwithstanding the superior facility and unfailing energy with which they capture prey larger and more active than themselves, they are invariably overcome even by a very small Amoeba which they avoid if possible. Wlien they come into contact the Amoeba shows un- wonted activity, tries to envelope the Actinophrys with its pseudopodia, but failing to capture the whole animal
Fig. 88, p. 19.
ACANTHOMETRA BULBOSA.
SECT. II. THE ACANTHOMETRM. ,g
it tears out portions and conveys them to improvised vacuoles to be digested. Dr. Wallich mentions that he had seen nearly the half of a large Actinophrys transferred piecemeal to the interior of its enemy, where it was quickly digested.
As every part of the body of the Actinophrys is equally capable of performing the part of nutrition, respiration, and circulation ; and as in the absence of muscles and nerves they may be presumed to have no con- sciousness, the marks of apparent intelligence can only be attributed to a kind of instinct, and their motions to the vast inherent contractility of the sarcode and its enclosing film, which is also the case with the Amoebae.
The Acanthometrse (see fig. 88, Acanthometra bulbosa) are all marine animals ; their skeleton consists of a num- ber of long spicules which radiate from a common centre, tapering to their extremities. These spicules are tra- versed by a canal with a furrow at the base through which groups of pseudopodia enter, emerging at the apex. Besides, there are a vast number of pseudopodia not thus enclosed, resembling those of the Actinophrys in appearance and action. The body is spherical, and occupies the spaces left between the bases of the spicules. The exterior film covering the body seems to be more decidedly membranaceous than that of the Actinophrys, but it is pierced by the pseudopodia which radiate thr6ugh it.. This exterior film itself is enclosed in a layer of a less tenacious substance, resembling that of which the pseudopodia are formed. There is a species of Acanthometra (echinoides) extremely common in some parts of the coast of Norway, which, to the nakecj eye, resembles merely a crimson point.
The Polycystina are an exceedingly numerous and widely dispersed group of siliceous rhizopods. They are inhabitants of the deep waters, having been brought up from vast depths in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
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POLYCYSTINA.
PART in.
Their bodies are inclosed in siliceous sliells, whicli have either the form of a thin hollow sphere perforated by large openings like windows, or of a perforated sphere produced here and there into tubes, spines, and a variety of singular projections : so they have many varied but beautiful microscopic forms. The animal which inhabits these shells is a mouthless mass of sar- code, divided into four lobes with a nucleus in each and covered with a thick gelatinous coat. It is crim- son in the Eucyrtidium and Dictyopodium trilobum of Haeckel (figs. 89 and 90) : in others, as the Podocyrtis Schomburgi, it is olive brown with yellow globules (fig. 91). These creatures extend themselves in radiating filaments through the perforations of their shells in search of food, like their tjrpe the Actinophrys sol, to whose pseudopodia the filaments are per- fectly similar in form, isolation, and in the slow movements of granules along their borders. The Polycystine does not always fill its shell, occasionally retreating into the vault or upper part of it, as in the Eucyrtidium (fig. 89, frontispiece to vol. i.). Sometimes the shell is furnished with radiating elongations, as in the Dictyopodium trilobum (fig. 90) . In both of these shells the animal consists of four crimson lobes. These beautiful micro- scopic organisms are found at present in the Mediterranean, in the Arctic and Pig. 91. Podocyrtis Autarctic seas, and on the bed of the North Atlantic. They had been exceed- ingly abundant during the later geological periods; multitudes are discovered in the chalk and marls in Sicily, Greece, at Bermuda, at Richmond in Yirginia and elsewhere; in all 282 different fossil forms have been described, grouped in 44 genera.
Fig. 20, p. 20.
DICTYOPODIUM TRILOBUM.
Fig. 92, p. 21.
AULOCANTHA SCOLYMANTHA.
Fig. 93, p. 2\.
ACTINOMMA DRYMODES.
Fig. M, p. 21.
HALIOMMA ECHINASTER.
SECT. II. THE AULOCANTHA. ' 21
In certain Polycystina, the perforations of the shell are so large and so close together, that the sarcode body of the animal appears to be covered by a siliceous net. This connects them with the ThalassicoUse, minute crea- tures found passively floating on the surface of the sea. Th. morum, which is one of the most simple of the few forms known, has a spherical body of sarcode covered with a siliceous net, through which the pseudopodia radiate in all directions, as in the Actinophrys, but it is studded at regular distances with groups of apparently radiating siliceous spicules.
The Aulocantha scolymantha (fig. 92), found by M. Haeckel in the Mediterranean, may be taken as an example of the most general form of the Thalassicolla. The siliceous skeleton of some of the Eadiolaria re- sembles the Chinese ivory toy of ball within ball. That of the Actinomma drymodes (fig. 93) consists of three perforated concentric spheres, with six strong spicules attached to the outer surface, perpendicular to one another and prolonged in the interior to the central sphere. Hundreds of finer bristle-like spicules radiate from the surface. The animal is chiefly contained in the central sphere, and from it a perfect forest of fine, long pseudopodia radiate in thick tufts through the apertures of the exterior sphere.
The skeleton of the Haliomma (fig. 94) consists of only two concentric spheres. In many species of Haliomma and Actinomma the animals are of the most vivid ver- milion or purple colour. Little or nothing is known of the reproduction of these microscopic organisms.
The Actinomma drymodes and the Haliomma are two of the most beautiful microscopic rhizopods discovered by M. Haeckel.
There is a family of fresh- water testaceous rhizopods of which one group secretes its sheU and the other builds it. The homy shell secreted by the group of the Arcella
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SIMPLE RHIZOPODS.
PART III.
presents various degrees of plano-convexitj, tlie con- vexity in some cases amounting to a hemisphere. They rarely, if ever, have mineral matter on their surface, which is studded with regular but very minute hexa- gonal reticulations. The aperture or mouth of the shell is small, and invariably occupies the centre of the plane surface, its margins being more or less inverted. The form of the shell is exceedingly varied, sometimes it even has horns indefinite in number, sometimes sym- metrical, sometimes not ; when its test or covering be- comes too small for its increasing size, it quits it, and secretes a new one. The filamental pseudopodia proceed from the mouth of the shell only, and by means of these it creeps about on its mouth in search of food.
Fig. 95. Simple Rhizopods.— A, B, Difflugiae ; c, D, Arcellae.
The Difflugia build their own shells, which are usually truncated spheres, ovate, or sometimes elongated into the form of a pitcher or flask. The most minute recog- nisable of these shells is about the -roVo ^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^ diameter, but they are constructed with the most perfect regularity. The Difflugia pyriformis or symmetrica has the form of an egg with an aperture at the small end. It is entirely made up of rectangular hyaline plates, arranged with the greatest regularity in consecutive transverse and longitudinal rows, the smaller ones being at the extremities, while the larger ones occupy the central and widest portion of the structure. The inhabi- tant of this abode is an Amoeba with a sarcode body
SECT. II. ARCELLA AND DIFFLUGIA. 23
covered with, a thin fihn, from whence it sends off pseu- dopodia through the mouth of its shell. The Difflugia is propagated bj conjugation, but before that takes place it becomes densely charged with chlorophyll-cells and starch-grains. The former disappear during the sub- sequent changes, and are replaced by a mass of colourless cells full of granules which are supposed to be the ele- ments of a new generation. The embryo or earliest form is a minute truncated sphere, but the animal builds up its habitation very much according to local circum- stances.
The greater number of the Difflugise secrete a sub- stance which forms a smooth layer in the interior, which the animal covers with sarcode from its mouth, and then it drags itself with its pseudopodia to the par- ticles which it selects, "and they adhere to it. The par- ticles selected are invariably mineral matter. 'The selective power is carried to such an extent that colour- less particles — sometimes quartzose, sometimes felspa- thic, sometimes micaceous — are always chosen.' *The particles seem to be impacted into the soft matter, laid on the exterior in the same way that a brick is pressed into the yielding mortar, and that too, in so skilful a manner as to leave the smallest possible amount of va- cant area ; whilst in the specimens of Difflugia in which tabular or micaceous particles are used, they are some- times disposed with such nicety that there is no over- lapping, but the small fragments are placed so as to occupy the space left between the larger ones. These excellent architects seem to know that in the valves of the Diatoms are combined the properties best suited to their wants, that is, transparency and form, capable of being easily arranged.'
Both the Difflugia and Arcella are Amoebae in the strictest sense of the word; their bodies consist of sarcode, which sends out finger-like lobes from the
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moutli of the shell at one end, while the other end has an adhesive property, which fixes it to the bottom. The nucleus and contractile vesicles are identical in character with those of the Amoebse, and exhibit the same tendency to subdivision at certain periods of the creature's history that is witnessed on a large scale in the Amoeba proper ; and the reproductive process is the same.^
The Difflugise are found in rivulets and pools con- taining aquatic plants ; the condition of the water and the nature of the soil have a great influence on the form of their shell.
The Euglyphse is the third group of fresh-water rhi- zopods. They are extremely minute, and there are no mineral particles whatever on their shells, the axes of which do not coincide with the aperture. The interior of the animal is like that of the Arcella and Difflugia, but it differs from them in as much as the pseudopodia and ectosarc, or external coat, are finely granular, and the whole mass of the body possesses a decided degree of adhesive viscidity. The pseudopodia are filiform, tapering, radiating, and readily coalesce ; and ' as if to compensate for the restricted power of locomotion, compared with that of the Amoeba proper, the pseudo- podia of the Euglyphse are much more active. The rapidity with which they admit of being projected outwards, and withdrawn into the shell, is unequalled in any other form, presenting the most wonderful ex- ample of inherent contractility in an amorphous animal substance, that is to be met with in either of the great organic kingdoms.' ^
The order Eeticularia, with a very few exceptions, are animals dwelling in calcareous microscopic shells, and differing essentially in constitution from all the
5 ' On Dififlugian Rhizopods,' by 'G-. C. Wallich ]M.D. Annals of Natural History, March, 1864. " Dr. WaUich.
SECT. n. RETICULARIA. 25
preceding Rhizopods. The ectosarc or surface -layer of the sarcode in the Amoeba and Actinophrys has so much consistence, that their pseudopodia, which are derived from it, have a decidedly firm outline and never coalesce ; whereas in the order Reticularia, the sarcode is merely a semi-fluid protoplasm or colourless viscid fluid, without the smallest surface-layer or film, so that their pseudopodia possess no definiteness either in shape, size or number. Sometimes they are cylindrical, and sometimes form broad flat bands, whilst they are often drawn into threads of such extreme tenuity, as to require a high magnifying power to discern them. They coalesce and fuse into each other so freely and so completely when they meet, that no part of their substance can be regarded as having more than a viscous consistence. .Their margins are not defined by continuous lines, but are broken by granules irregularly disposed among them, so that they appear as if torn ; and these granules, when the animal is in a state of activity, are in constant motion, passing along the pseudopodia from one end to the other, or passing through the connecting threads of this animated net- work from one pseudopodium to another, with con- siderable rapidity, analogous to the movement of the particles in the cells of the hairs of the Tradescantia and other plants.'^
The sarcode body of the Gromise is inclosed in a yellowish brown horny envelope or test of an oval shape, with a single round orifice of moderate size, through which the pseudopodia extend into the surrounding water, some forms of the animal being marine, others inhabitants of fresh water. When the animal is at rest all is drawn within the test, and when its activity recommences, single fine threads are put out which move about in a groping manner until they find some
' ' Introduction to the Study of the Foraminifera,' by W. B. Carpenter.
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THE GROMIJE.
PAKT III.
surface to whicli they may attach themselves. When fixed, sarcode flows into them so that they rapidly increase in size, and then they pnt forth finer ramifica- tions, which diverging come in contact with those from
other stems, and by mutual fusion form bridges of connec- tion between the different branching systems; for the pro- toplasm spreads over the exterior of the test, and from it pseudopodia extend and coalesce, wher- ever they meet, so that the whole forms a living network, extending to a dis- tance of six or eight times the length of the body. Fig. 96 represents the Gro- mia oviformis with its pseudopodia ex- tended.
In the Gromise the granular particles in the semi-fluid proto- plasm are in con- stant motion. In the finer filaments there is but one current, and a particle may be seen to be carried to the extremity, and return again bringing back with it any granules that may be advancing ; and should particles of food adhere to the filament they
Fig. 96. Gromia oviformifl.
SECT, n. THE GROMI^. 27
take part in the general movement. In tlie broader filaments two currents carrying particles pass backwards and forwards in opposite directions at tbe same time, and the network in which these motions are going on is undergoing continual changes in its arrangements. New filaments are put forth sometimes from the midst of the ramifications, while others are retracted; and occasionally a new centre of radiation is formed at a point where several threads meet. The food consists of diatoms and morsels of vegetable matter ; but the Gromise have no vent, so that the indigestible matter collects in a heap withui them. However, as the form of the test is such that the animal cannot increase its size, it leaves it when it becomes too small for its comfort and forms another, and it is supposed to get rid of the effete matter at the same time. The Gromise have no nucleus or contractile vesicle.
Class II. — FoEAMmiFERA.
The geological importance of the Foraminifera, their intrinsic beauty, the prodigious variety of their forms, their incredible multitude, and the peculiarity of their structure, have given these microscopic organisms the highest place in the class of Ehizopods. The body of these animals consists of a perfectly homogeneous sarcode or semi-fluid protoplasm, showing no tendency whatever to any film or surface-layer. It is inclosed in a shell ; and the only evidence of vitality that the creature gives, is a protrusion and retraction of slender threads of its sarcode, through the mouth or pores of the shell, or through both according to its structure. Fig. 97 shows some of their forms.
By far the greater number of the Foraminifera are compound or many-chambered shells. When young, the shell has but one chamber, generally of a globular
28 FORAMINIFERA. part hi.
form ; but as tlie animal grows, others are successively added by a kind of budding in a definite but different arrangement for each order and genus of the class. When the creature increases in size, a portion of its semi-fluid sarcode projects like a bud from the mouth of its shell. If it be of the one-chambered kind, the bud separates from its parent before the shelly matter which it secretes from its surface consolidates, and a new individual is thus produced. But if the primary
Fig. 97, Various forms of Foraminifora :— A, Oolina claxata ; B, Nodosaria rugoaa ; c, Nodosaria spinicosta ; Cristellaria compressa ; k, Polystomella crispa ; p, Den- dritina elegans ; g, Globigerina bulloides ; h, Textularia Mayeriana ; i, Quinquelocu- lina Bronniana.
shell be of the many^ chambered kind, the shelly secre- tion consolidates over the sarcode projection which thus remains fixed, and the shell has then two chambers, the aperture in the last being the mouth, from which, by a protrusion of sarcode, a third chamber may be added, the new chamber being always placed upon the mouth of its predecessor, a process which may be continued indefinitely, the mouth of the last segment being the mouth of the whole shell.
By this process an ovate shell with a mouth at one extremity may have a succession of ovate chambers
SECT. n. STRUCTUHE OF FORAMINIFERA. 29
added to it, each chamber being in continuity with its predecessor J so that the whole shell will be straight and rod-like, the last opening being the mouth. K the original shell be globular, and if all the successive gemmae given out be equal and globular, the shell covering and uniting them will be like a number of beads strung upon a straight wire. Sometimes the successive gemmae increase in size so that each chamber is larger than the one which precedes it ; in this case the compound shell will have a conical form, the pri- mary shell being the apex, and the base the last formed, the aperture of which is the mouth of the whole shell ; a great many Toraminifera have this structure. The spiral form is very common and much varied. A series of chambers increasing in size may coil round a longi- tudinal axis, like the shell of the snail ; but if each of the successive chambers, instead of being developed exactly in the axis of its predecessor, should be directed a little to one side, a curved instead of a straight axis would be the result; there is a regular gradation of forms of Foraminifera between these two types. The convolutions are frequently flat and in one plane, but the character of the spiral depends upon the successive enlargement or not of the consecutive chambers ; for when they open very wide and increase in breadth, every whorl is larger than that which it surrounds ; but more commonly there is so little difference between the segments after the spiral has made two or three turns, that the breadth of each whorl scarcely exceeds that which precedes it.
However varied the forms may be, the mouth of the last shell is the mouth of the whole, either for the time being or finally. For all the chambers are con- nected by narrow apertures in the partitions between them. Each chamber is occupied by a segment of the gelatinous sarcode body of the animal, and all the
30 ORDERS OF FORA^IINIFERA. paet hi.
segments are connected by sarcode filaments passing throngh the minute apertures in the partitions between the chambers, so that the whole constitutes one com- pound creature.
Although the character and structure assumed by the semi-fluid bodies of the known Foraminifera have been determined in most cases with admirable precision, it is still thought advisable to arrange them according to the substance of the shell : consequently they form three natural orders ; namely, the Porcellanous or imperfo- rate, which have calcareous shells often so polished and shining that they resemble porcelain; secondly, the Arenaceous Foraminifera, consisting of animals which secrete a kind of cement from their surfaces, and cover themselves with calcareous or siliceous sand-grains ; and lastly, the Vitreous and Perforated order, which is the most numerous and highly organized of the whole class, has siliceous shells transparent as glass, but acquires more or less of an opaque aspect in consequence of minute straight tubes which perforate the substance of the shell perpendicularly to its surface, and consequently interfere with the transmission of light.
Order of Porcellanous Foraminifera,
The Miliolidse constitute the porcellanous order, which consists of twelve genera and many species, varying from a mere scale to such as have chambered shells of complicated structure.
The genus Miliola has minute white shells resem** bling millet seeds, often so brilliantly polished that they are perfectly characteristic of the porcelain family to which they belong. No Foraminifera are better suited to give an idea of the intimate connection between the shell and its inhabitant than the Miliola, the funda- mental type of this genus. The shell is a spiral (i, fig. 97),
SECT. n. THE MILIOLA. 3 1
which is made up of a series of half turns arranged symmetrically on its two sides. Each half turn is longer and of greater area than that on the opposite side, so that each turn of the spire has a tendency to extend itself in some degree over the preceding one, which gives a concave instead of a convex border to the inner wail of the chamber. The sarcode body of the Miliola consists of long segments which fill the chambers, connected by threads of sarcode passing through the tubular constrictions of the shell. As the animal grows, its pseudopodia extend alternately now from one end, and now from the other extremity of the spiral, and by them it fixes itself to seaweeds, zoophytes, and other bodies, for these Foraminifera never float or swim freely in the water. The genus Miliola is more ex- tensively diffused than, almost any other group of Fora- minifera ; they are most abundant between the shore and a depth of 150 fathoms, and are occasionally brought up from great depths. Beds of miliolite limestone show to what an extent the Miliola abounded in the seas of the Eocene period ; but the type is traced back to the Lias.
The genus Peneroplis is distinguished by a highly polished opaque white shell ; its typical form is an ex- tremely flat spire of two turns and a half opening rapidly and widely in the last half whorl. It is strongly marked by depressed bands which indicate the septa or shelly partitions between the chambers in the interior. The polished surface of the shell is striated between and transversely to the bands by parallel platted-look- ing folds -3-J^-Q of an inch apart. But the peculiarity of this shell and its congeners is, that the partitions be- tween the chambers in its interior are perforated by numerous isolated and generally circular pores which in this compressed type are in a single linear row. Their number depends upon the length of the partition
32 THE PENEROPLIS. part in.
between tlie chambers, which increases with the age of the animal and size of the shell. There is but one pore in each of the consecutive partitions from the globular centre to the fourth chamber. Erom the fourth to the seventh chamber the communication is bj two pores ; after this the number is gradually increased to three, four, six, &c., up to forty-eight, so that the last seg- ment may send out forty-eight pseudopodia from the mouth of the shell. In its early youth one pseudo- podium appears to have been sufficient to find food for the animal, but as the shell increased in size and the segments in number, a greater supply of food was requisite and a greater number of pseudopodia were necessary to fish for it. Moreover when an addition to the shell is required the pseudopodia coalesce at their base and form a continuous segment upon which the new portion of the shell is moulded.
In varieties of the Peneroplis where the spire is less compressed there are sometimes two rows of pores in the partitions between the chambers. The Dendri- tine variety deviates most from that described. It is characterised by a single large aperture in each par- tition which sends out ramifications from its edges. The form of these openings depends upon that of the spire ; when compressed the aperture is linear and less branched at its edges; but in shells which have a very turgid spire it is sometimes broader than it is long, and much branched ; but these extremes are connected by a variety of forms. The shells of this variety of the Peneroplis are strongly marked by the depressed bands and strise, as in the Dendritina elegans (p, fig. 97). The segments of the animal inhabiting these shells must be more intimately con- nected than in most of the other Foraminifera ; and the pseudopodia sent through these large apertures out of the mouth of the shell must be comparatively
SECT. Ti. THE ORBITOLITK 33
quite a mass of sarcode. The Dendritinse are inhabi- tants of shallow water and tropical seas, while the other members of the genus Peneroplis abound in the Red Sea and the seas of other warm latitudes, especially in the zone of the great laminarian fuci. Thej do not appear in a fossil state prior to the beginning of the Tertiary period.
The last whorls of some of the compressed spiral Foraminifera of the Porcellanous order so nearly encom- pass all their predecessors, that the transition from a flat spiral to the Orbitolite with its flat disk of concentric rings is not so abrupt as might at first appear. The gradual change may be distinctly traced in the species of the genus Orbiculina. The exteriors of the shells of the genus Orbitolites have less of the opaque whiteness than many others of its family. In its simplest form it is a disk about the 3-^ of an inch in diameter, consisting of a central nucleus surrounded by from ten to fifteen concentric circular rings. The surface is usually plane, though sometimes it is concave on both surfaces in con- sequence of the rings increasing in thickness towards the circumference. The rings or zones are distinctly marked by furrows on the exterior of the shell, and each of these zones is divided by transverse furrows into ovate elevations with their greatest diameter transverse to the radius of the disk, so that the surface presents a number of ovate elevations arranged in consecutive circles round the central nucleus. The margin of the disk exhibits a series of convexities with depressions between them ; in each of these depressions there is a circular pore sur- rounded by a ring of shell: these pores are the only means the animal possesses of communicating with the water in which it lives.
Fig. 98 is a horizontal section of the simple Orbitolite showing the internal structure of the disk. A pear- shaped chamber with a circumambient chamber forms
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THE SIMPLE OliBITOLITE.
PART III.
a nucleus which is surrounded by series of concentric
The chambers of the nucleus
rings of ovate cavities
Fig.
Simple disc of Orbitolites complanatus.
and all the cavities are filled vs^ith segments of homo- geneous semi-fluid sarcode, which constitute the body
Fig. 99. Animal of Orbitolites complanatus.
of the animal (fig. 99). The segments in the rings are connected circularly by gelatinous bands of sarcode
SECT. II. THE SIMPLE ORBITOLITE, 35
extending through passages which connect the cavities laterally. The segments are also connected radially by similar sarcode bands, which originate in the mass of sarcode filling the nucleus, and extend to the pores in the margin of the disk. The cavities of each zone alternate in position with those of the zones on each side of it. The animal sends out its pseudopodia through the marginal pores in search of food, which consists of Diatoms and Desmidiacese ; they are drawn in, digested without any stomach, and the nutritious liquid is conducted by the gelatinous bands from seg- ment to segment and from zone to zone, even to the innermost recesses of the shell.
It is supposed that during the growth of the Orbito- lite, when the animal becomes too large for its abode, its pseudopodia coalescie and form a gelatinous massive coat over the margin of the exterior zone, which secretes a shelly ring with all its chambers and passages, each ring being a mere vegetative repetition of those pre- ceding it. That vegetative property enables the animal to repair its shell or add a part that is wanting. For, if a small portion of a ring be broken off and separated from the living animal, it will increase so as to form a new disk, the want of the central part or nucleus not appearing to be of the smallest consequence ; indeed, the central rings are very often imperfect. The sarcode of these animals is red, and although the shell is of a brownish-yellow by transmitted light, it is so translu- cent that the red tint is seen through it.
The simple Orbitolite has many varieties. Sometimes it begins its life as a spiral which changes to a circular disk as it advances in age. It varies in thickness, and some of its very large varieties may be said to consist of three disks or stories of concentric chambers and many mar- ginal pores instead of one. The upper and base stories of concentric chambers are alike, the intermediate one
D 2
-^6 COMPOUND ORBITOLITE.
very different, but the sarcode segments in all the three are so connected as to form a very complex compound animal.^ Different as this structure is from that of the simple Orbitolite, they are merely varieties of the same species ; for it has been shown by Dr. Carpenter that, although many pass their lives in the simple one- storied state, they may change into the complex form at any stage of their growth ; and as an equally exten- sive range of variation has been proved by Professor Williamson and Mr. Parker to prevail in other groups of Foraminifera, the tendency to specific variation seems to be characteristic of that type of animal life, and consequently the number of distinct species is less than they were supposed to be.
The Orbitolites are found in the dredgings of all the warmer seas, in vast multitudes at the Philippine Islands, but those from Australia are the most gigantic, being sometimes the size and thickness of a shilling.
Order of Arenaceous Foraminifera,
In the numerous family of Lituolidse the abode of the animal consists of a cement mixed with very fine par- ticles of sand with larger ones imbedded in the surface. The order includes a wide range of forms divided into three genera, the simplest of which consists of a cylin- drical tube twisted into a spiral gradually increasing in diameter, and attached to a foreign substance by one of its surfaces. The creature which lives in it is a uniform cord of sarcode, which sends its pseudopodia out through a large aperture at the extremity of its tube in search of food. Although the tube consists of sand imbedded in an ochreous-coloured cement secreted by the animal, its surface is smooth as a plastered wall.
* A complete description of this complex type is given by Dr. Carpenter in the Phil. Trans. 1856.
SECT. II. ARENA CEO US F0RA3IINIFERA . 3 7
The spiral tubes of this genus take various forms, and in some cases are divided into chambers.
The members of the genus Lituola exude from their surfaces a thick coat of cement with a quantity of siliceous particles roughly imbedded in it, but in some instances the particles are so uniform in size and shape, and are so methodically arranged, that the surface re- sembles a tesselated pavement. The usual form of the Lituola is a mere string of oval convex chambers in- creasing gradually in size, and fixed to shells and corals by their flat surfaces. In some instances the shells, or rather the substitutes for shells, take a nautiloid form, and become detached from the foreign bodies to which they were attached. In the highest forms of this genus the chambers are divided by secondary partitions.
The typical form of the genus Yalvulina is a three- whorled, three -sided pyramidal shell, with three cham- bers in every turn of the spire. The aperture is large and round, with a valve of smaller size attached by a tooth of shell to its rim. The creature itself has an exceedingly thin perforated vitreous shell, covered by an incrustation of calcareous particles, which so entirely blocks up the perforations that it can only extend its pseudopodia through the mouth of its shell.
Order of Vitreous Foraminifera.
Nearly all the Foraminifera on the British coasts belong to the Vitreous or Perforated order, which con- sists of three natural families and many genera. Their shells are vitreous, hyaline, and generally colourless, even although the substance of the animal is deeply coloured ; in some species both the animal and its sheU are of a rich crimson. The glassy transparency of the shells would be perfect were they not perforated by numerous tubes running from the interior of the chani-
3» VITREOUS F0RA3IINIFERA. tart in.
bers straight through the shell, and ending in pores on its surface. According to niicroscoj)ic measurement the tubes in the Rotalia, which are the largest, are on an average the -j-^^-q of an inch in diameter, and as the}- are somewhat more than that apart, the transparency of the shell appears between them and gives the surface a vitreous aspect. The pseudopodia of the animal have been seen to pass through every part of the wall of the chambers occupied by it ; the apertures of the tubuli in this case are wide enough to permit particles of food to be drawn into the interior of the shell. But threads of sarcode of extreme tenuity alone could pass through the tubuli of the Operculina, which are not more than the T'o'oTo" ^^ ^^^ vndh in diameter, and the distance between them not much greater, which gives the shell an opaque appearance. Particles of food can hardly be small enough to pass through such tubes into the interior to be digested. Dr. Carpenter, however, is almost certain, from the manner in which the animal repairs injuries done to its shell, that the semi-fluid sarcode extends itself at certain times, if not constantly, over the exterior of the shell, as in the Gromia ; and therefore it is by no means impossible that the digestive process may really be performed in this external layer, so that only the products of digestion may have to pass into the portion of the sarcode occupying the body of the shell.
In such many-chambered shells as are pierced by tubuli wide enough to permit particles of food to be drawn into the interior, each segment of the animal, being fed within its own chamber, has a life of its own, at the same time that it shares with all the others in a common life maintained by food taken in through the mouth of the shell. There are many instances of this individual life combined with a common life among the lowest tribes of animals.
Although the Perforated order contains types widely
SECT. II. VITREOUS F0RA3IINIFERA. 39
apart, they are always connected by intermediate forms : but there is no such connection between the two great natural orders, which are not only separated by the tubuli in the shell, but in many instances by the struc- ture of the interior and the corresponding character of the animal.
In the Lagenidse, which form the first family of the Perforated order, the vitreous shell possesses great hardness, and is pierced by numerous small tubuli. It is very thin, and of glossy transparency. The first four shells in fig. 9 7 represent some of its forms.
The genus IvTodosaria has a very extensive range of forms, from the elongated structure to the nautiloid spiral, depending upon the relative proportions and arrangement of the segments. The segments are se- parated by constrictions transverse to the axis of growth^ or by bands as in the Nodosaria rugosa, b, fig. 97. It frequently happens that parts of the sheU are not per- forated ; and there are generally longitudinal ribs which sometimes have spines projecting from every part of the interior, as in Nodosaria spinicosta, c, fig. 97.
In the genus Nodosaria, the axis of growth changes fi'om a straight line to that of a spiral, so that the septa or divisions between the segments cross the axis obliquely, and the aperture instead of being exactly central becomes excentric. Between these extremes there is a numerous series of gradations. The Cristal- laria is the highest type ; the form is a nautiloid spiral, more or less compressed (d, fig. 97), of which each whorl has its chambers extended by winged projections so as to reach the centre, and entirely encloses the preceding whorl. The number of chambers in each whorl is much smaller than in most of the nautiloid spirals, not being more than eight or nine. The divisions are always strongly marked externally by septal bands, varying in character according to the species. The
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VITREOUS FOR AM INI FER A. part hi.
margin of the shell runs into a keel, which is sometimes extended into a knife-edge. Nearly all the Lagena family are found in the North Atlantic and Mediterra- nean, especially in the Adriatic, which is rich in species. In the Nodosaria the cells which compose the shell have so little connection one with another that they may be easily detached ; which gives reason to believe that the separation of the parts may be a means of reproduction and dispersion.
The Globigerinidse are the most numerous family of the perforated series, and the most remarkable in the history of the existing Foraminifera. They are distin- guished by the coarseness of the perforations in their shells, and by the crescentic form of the aperture by which the chambers communicate with each other.
The genus Globigerina consists of a spiral aggrega- tion of globose segments, which are nearly discon- nected from each other although united by mutual cohesion. The segments are always somewhat flattened against one another in their planes or junctions, and sometimes the flattening extends over a pretty large sur- face as in G, ^g. 97. The entire series of segments shows itself on the upper side, but on the lower side only the segments forming the latest convolution are prominent ; they are usually four in number, and are arranged symmetrically round a deep depression or vestibule ; the bottom of which is formed by the segments of the earlier convolutions. In this vestibule each segment opens by a large crescent-shaped orifice, the several chambers having no direct communication with each other. The entire shell of the ordinary type may attain the dia- meter of about -^-Q of an inch, but it is usually much smaller; the typical form, however, is subject to very considerable modifications. In newly formed segments of Globigerina, the hyaline shell substance is perforated by tubuli varying from T^o-roir ^^ ToVo ^^ ^^ "^^^ ^^
Fig. 100, />. 41.
ROSALINA ORNATA.
HEcr. II. VITREOUS FORAMINIFERA. 41
diameter, arranged at pretty regular distances ; but in deep seas the surface of the shell is raised by an external deposit into tubercles or ridges, the orifices of the pores appearing between them.
Each chamber of the shell is occupied by a reddish- yeUow segment of sarcode, from which pseudopodia are seen to protrude ; and it is supposed that the sarcode body also fills the vestibule, since without such connecting band it is difficult to understand how the segments which occupy the separate chambers can com- municate with each other, or how new segments can be budded off. In the Globigerina the slight cohesion gives reason to believe that the separation of the parts may be a means of reproduction.
The Rosalina ornata, one of the most beautiful speci- mens of this group, and remarkable for the size of its pores, is represented in fig. 100 with its pseudopodia ex- tended, and coalescing in some parts.
The shells of the genus Textularia consist of a double series of chambers disposed on each side of an axis, so that they look as if they were mutually interwoven. As the segments for the most part increase gradually in size, the shell is generally triangular, the apex being formed of the first segment, and its base of the two last (H, fig. 97).
The aperture is always placed in the inner wall of each chamber, close to its junction with the preceding segment on the opposite side. In the compressed sheUs it is crescent-shaped, but it is semilunar in the less compressed, and may even be gibbous. The shell is hyaline, with large pores not very closely set, though in some varieties they are minute and near to one another. Sometimes the pores open on the surface in deep hexagonal pits. The older sheUs are frequently incrusted with large coarse particles of sand, and some specimens from deep water are almost covered with fine
42 THE ROTA LI A BECCARIL part hi.
sand, but with a good microscope the pores may be seen between them.
The sarcode segments of the animal perfectly corre- spond in shape and in alternate arrangement with the segments of the shell, and are connected by bands of sarcode passing through the crescent-shaped apertures by which each chamber communicates with that which precedes and follows it.
The Textularise are among the most cosmopolitan of Foraminifera ; some of their forms are found in the sands and dredgings from all shores, from shallow or moderately deep water. In time they go back to the Palaeozoic period.
The Rotalia Beccarii, common on the British coast, affords a good example of the supplemental skeleton, a structure peculiar to some of the higher vitreous Fora- minifera. It has a rather compressed turbinoid form with a rounded margin. Its spire is composed of a considerable number of bulging segments gradually increasing in size, disposed with great regularity, and with their opposed surfaces closely fitted to each other. The whole spire is visible on the exterior, with all its convolutions, and on account of the bulging form of the segments, their lines of junction would appear as deep furrows along the whole spire, were they not partly or wholly filled up with a homogeneous semi-crystalline deposit of shell-substance, which is very different in structure and appearance from the porous shell wall of the segments.
The genus Calcarina is distinguished by a highly developed intermediate skeleton with singular out- growths, which is traversed by a system of canals ; through these the animal sends its pseudopodia into the water for food to nourish the whole.
A homogeneous crystalline deposit invests almost the whole of the minute spiral shell of a, Calcarina,
SECT. II. INTERMEDIATE SKELETON, 43
and sends out many cylindrical, but more generally club-shaped spines in all directions, though they usually affect more or less that of the equator, as in the typical form Calcarina calcar, which is exactly like the rowel of a spur. The spines are for the most part thick and clumsy, and give the shell a very uncouth appearance, especially when their extremities are forked. The turbinoid spire of the shell has a globose centre surrounded by about five whorls progressively increasing in size, and divided by perforated septa into chambers. Each whorl is merely applied to that preceding it, and does not invest it in the least degree. Internally the turns of the spire are separated from each other by the interposition of a solid layer of shell-substance quite distinct from the walls of the chambers. A crystalline deposit begins at the Very centre of the spire in a thin layer gradually increasing in thickness as it proceeds, and sending off club-shaped spines from time to time so that the spines are of later and later production, and become thicker and longer. From this it is evident that the intermediate skeleton grows simultaneously with the turns of the spire, but strange as it may seem, their growth is independent, though both are nourished and increased by the sarcode in the interior of the chambers. For the intermediate skeleton is traversed in every part by an elongated network of canals, which begin from irregular lacunse or openings in the walls of the cham- bers, and extend to the extremities of the spines. Through these canals threads of the sarcode body of the animal within the chambers have access to the exterior, and provide nourishment for the intei-mediate skeleton; while pseudopodia, passing into the water through pores in the last partition of the shell, provide for its growth and procure nourishment for the animal. The communication between the adjacent chambers in the whorls, is by means of a series of pores in the
44 , THE ROT ALINE GENUS. rARX in.
septa, or partitions ; and it is through the pores of the last septum that the pseudopodia of the animal have access to the water to provide for the growth of the spire, for the punctures on the surface are merely the terminations of some of the branching canals. On ap- proaching the surface the canals become crowded to- gether in some parts, leaving columns of the shelly skeleton unoccupied which either appear as tubercles on the surface, or, if they do not rise so high, form circular spots surrounded by punctations which are the apertures of the canals.
The Rotaline series of the Globigerina family is one of the most numerous and varied of the whole class of Foraminifera ; but varied as their forms are, they all bear the characteristic marks which distinguish their order, with this essential difference, that in the genus Globi- gerina each chamber of the spire has a communication with the central vestibule by a crescent-shaped aperture, while in the Rotalinse each chamber only communicates by a crescentic aperture with that which precedes and follows it.
In the Rotaline group the internal organization rises successively from the simple porous partition between the chambers, to the double partition with the radiating passages, and from the latter to the double partitions, intermediate skeleton, and complicated system of canals. To these changes the structure of the compound animal necessarily corresponds, for it may be presumed that not only the chambers but all the passages and canals in the interior of the shell are either permanently or occasionally filled with its sarcode body.
However, it is in the Nummuline family that the Foraminifera attain the highest organization of which they are capable. This family surpasses all the Vitreous tribe in the density and toughness of the shell, the fineness of its tubuli, and in the high organization
SECT. II.
THE NU3IMULITES.
49
of its canal system. Their forms vary from that resembling a nautilus or ammonite to a flat spiral or cyclical disk, like an Orbitolite, though vastly superior to it in organization both with regard to the animal and to the structure of the shell.
All the species of the genus Nummulite are spiral ; in the typical form the last turn of the spire not only completely embraces, but entirely conceals, all that precede it. In general, the form is that of a double convex lens of more or less thickness ; some are flat, lenticular, and thinned away to an acute edge, while
Fig. 101. Section of Faujasina.
others may be spheroidal with a round, or obtuse edge» They owe their name to their resemblance to coins, being, in general, nearly circular. Their diameters range from ^^^h of an inch to 4^ inches, so that they are the giants of their race ; but the most common species vary from ^ an inch to 1 inch in diameter.
Fig. 101 represents a section of the Nummulite Faujasina near and parallel to the base of the shell. It shows a series of chambers arranged in a flat
46 THE GENUS POLYSTOMELLA. part in.
spiral, and increasing in size from the centre to the last turn of the spire, which embraces and conceals all that precede it. Every segment of the animal is en- closed in a shell of its own, so that they are separated from one another by a double wall and space between ; however, they are connected in the spiral direction by narrow passages in the walls.
The segments of the animal in the exterior whorl have direct communication with the water by means of a shelly marginal cord, a, fig. 101, perforated by multitudes of minute tubes, less than the -jh^itq ^^ ^^ inch in
Fig. 102. Interior of the Operculina.
diameter, through which threads of sarcode finer than those of a spider's web can be protruded. These tubuli are so very fine and numerous, that they characterize the Nummuline family.
Fig. 102 represents the interior of the Operculina, which is an existing representation of the Nummuline type. Every segment of the animal is enclosed in a shell of its own, but all the segments are connected in the spiral direction by narrow passages in the walls as in the Eaujasina.
Although each of the interior whorls has its perforated marginal band, the segments can have no direct access to the water ; however, they are indirectly brought into contact with it by means of a system of branching
SECT, II. POLYSTOMELLA CRISPA. 47
shelly canals, radiating" from the central chamber, ending in conspicuous pores in the external surface of the shell. During this course the canals send small tubes into the chambers on each side of them ; through these the mternal segments of the animal can fill the canals with cords of sarcode, and protrude them into the water, whence they are supplied with food.
The genus Polystomella is distinguished by the high development of the intermediate skeleton and the canal system that maintains it. The Polystomella crispa (fig. 97, e), a beautiftd species common on the British coasts and in other temperate seas, has a lenticular form, the -^-^ to the -^^ of an inch in diameter. It con- sists of a small number of convolutions winding round the shorter axis of the lens, increasing rather rapidly in breadth, and each one almost entirely enclosing its pre- decessor, so that the shell is exactly alike on both sides, and only the last convolution is to be seen. At the extremities of the axis there is a mass of solid shell- substance, perforated by orifices which are the apertures of a set of straight, parallel canals. In the figure only the last convolution is visible, upon which the convex septal bands are very conspicuous, dividing the surface into well marked segments, upon the exterior edge of each of which there are strong transverse crenulations. The only communication which the chambers have with the exterior, is by means of a variable number of minute orifices near the inner margin of the sagittate partition- plane, close to its junction with the preceding convolu- tion ; a very high microscopic power is required to see them, as well as the minute tubercles with which the surface of the shell is crowded, more especially on the septal bands and in the rows of depressions between the segmental divisions.
The sarcode animal itself corresponds exactly vnth the form and spiral arrangement of the chambers so
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strongly marked on the exterior of the shell. The segments form a spiral of crescents, smooth on the convex and crenulated on the concave side ; and from the latter threads of sarcode proceed, w^hich pass through pores in the inner margins of the partitions, and unite them into one animal.
The Polystomella lives in tropical seas ; P. crispa in temperate latitudes, and P. striate -punctata inhabits the polar waters ; the genus is found everywhere.
Although variety of form without specific difference is characteristic of the Foraminifera, it sometimes happens that identity of external form is accompanied by an essential difference in internal structure. Of this the Cycloclypeus is an instance ; it is a rare species of nummuline, dredged up from rather deep water off the coast of Borneo. The shell is gigantic, some specimens being two and a half inches in diameter ; but its mode of growth is the same with that of the most complicated Orbitolite. It consists of three superposed stages of circular discs, each circle of chambers enclosing all those previously formed. However, each segment of the animal being enclosed in its own shelly envelope, a supplemental skeleton, and a radial, vertical and annular system of canals, prove that the two animals belong to essentially different families of Foraminifera. There are many instances, especially in the Rotaline group, of isomorphism accompanied with generic difference ; thus no reliance can be placed on variety of external form, unaccompanied by change of internal structure.
An attempt has been made in the preceding pages to describe a few species most characteristic of some of the genera of this multitudinous class ; and of those selected a mere sketch of the most prominent features of the animal and its abode is given, that some idea may be formed of the wonderfully complicated structure of beings, which are mostly microscopic specks. Yet the most minute circumstances in the forms of the animals
SECT. II. GLOBIGERINjE. 49
and their shells, with their varieties and affinities, have been determined with an accuracy that does honour to microscopic science.
They are now arranged in a natural system by William B. Carpenter, M.D. F.R.S. assisted by William K. Parker, Esq., and T. Eupert Jones, Esq., and pub- lished in the Transactions of the Eay Society in 1862. To this admirable work, the author is highly indebted.
It was known that different types of Foraminifera abound at different depths on the coasts of the ocean ; but it was long believed that no living creature could exist in its dark and profound abyss. By deep-sea sounding, it has been ascertained that the basin of the Atlantic Ocean is a profound and vast hollow or trough, extending from pole to pole ; in the far south, it is of unknown depth, and the deepest part in the north is supposed to be between the Bermudas and the Great Banks of Newfoundland. But by a regular series of soundings made by the officers of the navies of Great Britain and the United States, for the purpose of laying a telegraphic cable, that great plain or steppe was discovered, now so well known as the telegraphic plateau, which extends between Cape Race in New- foundland, and Cape Clear in Ireland. From depths of more than 2,000 fathoms on this plateau, the ooze brought up by the sounding machine consisted of 97 per cent, of Globigerinse. The high state of preser- vation of these delicate shells was no doubt owing to the perfect tranquillity which prevails at great depths ; for the telegraphic plateau and the bed of the deep ocean everywhere is covered by a stratum of water unruffled by the commotion raised by the hurricane which may be raging on the surface. The greater number of the Globigerinse were dead empty shells ; but although in many the animal matter was quite fresh, Professor Bailly of New York could not believe
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50 METHOD OF SOUNDING. part hi.
that sucli delicate creatures could live on that dark sea bed, under the pressure of a column of water more than 2,000 fathoms high, a weight equal to rather more than that of 340 atmospheres or 5,100 lbs. on every square inch of sea-bed ; wherefore he concluded that the tropical ocean and the Gulf Stream, which absolutely swarm with animal life, must have been the birth-place and home of these minute creatures, and that this mighty ' ocean river,' which divides at the Great Banks of Newfoundland, and spreads its warm waters Hke a fan over the north Atlantic, deposits their remains over its bed, which has thus been their grave-yard for un- known periods, and which, in the lapse of geological time, may be raised above the waves as dry land.
Professor Ehrenberg on the contrary concluded that residentiary life exists at the bottom of the ocean, both from the freshness of the animal matter found in the shells, and from the number of unknown forms which are discovered from time to time at various and often great depths along the coasts. This opinion has been confirmed beyond a doubt on several occasions, especially by Dr. Wallich, who accompanied an expedition sent under the command of Sir Leopold M'Clintock, to sound the North Atlantic for laying a telegraphic line.
In doing that two operations are requisite. The first is to ascertain the depth : when that is known, the nature of the sea-bed must be determined, and on that account a sample of it is then sounded for ; but owing to the difficulty of ascertaining the exact time at which the ground is struck, a quantity of rope in excess of the depth is given out, which lies on the bottom of the sea while the machine is being drawn up, which occupies a considerable time when the depth is great. About midway between Greenland and the north of Ireland, when the machine was hauled up from a depth of a mile and a half, several starfish were clinging with
SECT. II. COCCOSPHERES.
51
their long spiny arms to fifty fathoms of the rope that had been lying on the surface of the sea-bed while the machine was being drawn up, and to that part of the rope alone. They continued to move their limbs ener- getically for more than a quarter of an hour after they were out of the water. They certainly had not been entangled in the line while swimming, because star- fishes are invariably creeping animals. The deposit on which they had rested at the bottom of the ocean con- tained ninety-five per cent, of Globigerinse. Abundance of these minute Foraminifera were found in the sto- machs of the starfish ; which seemed to prove not only that the starfish were caught on their natural feeding ground, but that their food was living organisms whose normal abode is the surface of the bed of the deep ocean. -
Dr. Wallich also discovered in the ooze brought up from a depth of nearly two miles and a quarter a num- ber of small bodies from Jg- to \ of an inch in length and about a line in breadth. They consisted of equal globes arranged in a straight line like the Nodosaria, or built up, each lying on part of the one below it, and in- creasing in size from the uppermost about y-oVo ^^ ^^^ undermost about -^^ of an inch in diameter. Both of these forms, called coccospheres, consisted of sarcode enclosed in a calcareous deposit ; and were studded at nearly regular distances by minute round or oval bodies concave below, and with an aperture on their convex surface sometimes single, sometimes double. These coccospheres were also found free in the ooze, and had been seen previously by Capt. Dayman. They have likewise been seen as free organisms living on the surface of the ocean.
The ooze in the bed of the Atlantic ocean, as well as of the Mediterranean and Adriatic contains fifty per cent, of Globigerinse ; they exist in the Red Sea, in the
52 FOSSIL FORAMINIFERA. part hi.
vicinity of the West Indian Islands, on both, sides of South America and near the Isle of France, but not in the Coral Sea which is occupied by different genera. Though in utter darkness, at the bottom of a deep ocean, these little creatures can procure food by means of their pseudopodia, whose extreme sensibility makes up for the want of sight ; and the very excess of pressure under which they live insures them a supply of oxygen at depths to which free air cannot penetrate, for it is believed that the quantity of dissolved air that water contains is in proportion to the pressure.
Fossil Foraminifera enter so abundantly into the sedimentary strata, that Buffon declared ^ the very dust had been alive.' 58,000 of these fossil shells have been computed in a cubic inch of the stone of which Paris and Lyons are built. The remains of these Rhizopods are for the most part microscopic. M. D'Orbigny estimated that an ounce of sand from the Antilles contained 1,800,000 shells of Foraminifera. A handful of sand anywhere, dry sea-weeds, the dust shaken from a dry sponge, are full of them.
When the finer portions of chalk amounting to one half or less are washed away, the remaining sediment consists almost entirely of the shells of Foraminifera, some perfect, others in various stages of disintegration. In some of the hard limestones and marbles, the relics of Foraminifera can be detected in polished sections and in thin slices laid on glass. It is now universally admitted that some crystallized limestones which are destitute of fossil remains, had been originally formed by the agency of animal life, and subsequently altered by metamorphic action; the opinion is gradually gain- ing ground among geologists that such is the history of the oldest limestones.
At certain geological periods circumstances favoured the development of an enormous multitude of indivi-
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dual animals. In the earlier part of the Tertiary period the Nmnmulites acquired an extraordinary size. They were like very large coins two or more inches in dia- meter, and were accumulated in such quantities as to constitute the chief part of the nummulitic limestone ; a formation in some places 1,500 feet thick, which extends through southern Europe, Libya, Egypt, Asia Minor, and is continued through the Himalayan moun- tains into various parts of the Indian peninsula, where it is extensively distributed. The Great Pyramid of Egypt is built of this limestone, which gave rise to singular speculations with regard to the Nummulites in very ancient and even in more recent times. Although this is incomparably the greatest, it is by no means the only instance of an accumulation of the fossil shells of individual animals.- The ' Lingula flags,' a stratum in the upper Cambrian series of North Wales, was so named from the abundance of the Brachiopod Lingula that it contains.
Professor Ehrenberg discovered that the shells of the Eoraminifera sometimes undergo an infiltration of silicate of iron, which fills not only the chambers, but also their canal-system even to its minutest ramifications, so that if the shell be destroyed by dilute acid, a per- fect cast of the sarcode matter remains. The green- sands in the different geological strata from the Silmian formation upwards, are chiefly composed of these casts ; and Professor Baily of the United States more recently discovered that a process of infiltration is even now taking place in some parts of the ocean bed, and that beautiful casts of Eoraminifera may be obtained by dissolving their shells with dilute acid.
A most extensive comparison of the Eoraminiferous group of Rhizopods, recent and fossil, has been made by Messrs. Parker and Rupert Jones from almost every latitude on the globe, from the arctic and tropical seas.
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from the temperate zones in both, hemispheres, and from shallow as well as deep-sea beds. They have also reviewed the fossil Foraminifera in their manifold aspects as presented by the ancient geological faunas throughout the whole series from the Tertiary down to the Carbonifer- ous strata inclusive ; and have come to the astonishing conclusion that scarcely any of the species of the Fora- minifera met with in the secondary rocks have become extinct. All that they had seen have their counterparts in the recent Mediterranean deposits. Throughout that long series of geological epochs even to the present day, the Foraminifera show no tendency to rise to a higher type; but variety of form in the same species prevailed then as it does now.
Subsequently to this investigation, a gigantic Orbi- tulite twelve inches in diameter, and the third of an inch thick, has been found in the Silurian strata in Canada. The largest recent species Dr. Carpenter had seen was about the size and thickness of a shilling.
The lowest stratum of the Cambrian formations has been regarded as the most ancient of the Palaeozoic rocks ; now, however, strata of crystallized limestone near the base of the Laurentian system, which is 50,000 feet thick in Canada, are discovered by Sir W. E. Logan to have been the work of the Eozoon Canadense, a gigantic Foraminifer, at a j)eriod so inconceivably remote that it may be regarded as the first appearance of animal life upon the earth. In a paper published by Dr. Carpenter, in May 1865, he expressed his opinion that the Eozoon would be found in the older rocks of central Europe ; and in the December following he received specimens from the fundamental quartz rocks of Germany, in which he found undoubted traces of the Eozoon. Here the superincumbent strata are 90,000 feet thick ; the transcendent antiquity of the Eozoon is therefore beyond all estimation.
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The fossil Eozoon consists of a succession of parallel rows or tiers of chambers, in which the sarcode of the living animal had been rejDlaced by a siliceous infiltra- tion, so that when the Calcareous shell was destroyed by dilute acid, the cast was found to be precisely like that of a Nummulite ; thin slices of it taken in dif- ferent directions being examined with a microsco]3e, it was found that the siliceous matter had not only filled that portion of the chambers which had been occupied by the sarcode-body of the animal and the canal-system, but had actually taken the place of the pseudopodial threads, the softest and most transitory of living substances, which were put forth through tubuli in the shell-walls of less than the to~o'o 0" P^^'^ ^^ ^^ inoh. in diameter. ' These are the very threads themselves turned into stone by the substitution which took place, particle by particle, between the sarcode body of the animal and certain constituents of the water of the ocean, before the destruction of the sarcode by ordinary decompo- sition.'^ The shell had an intermediate skeleton, but the minute tubes in the walls of the chambers are so characteristic of the Nummulites, that they were suflicient alone to determine the relationship of the Eozoon to its modern representative.
The external shape and limits to the size of the individual Eozoon have not been determined with certainty, on account of its indefinite mode of growth, and the manner in which the fossilized masses are connected with the highly crystalline matrix in which they are imbedded ; there is no doubt, however, that they spread over an area of a foot or even more, and attained a thickness of several inches. As they seem to have increased laterally by buds which never fell off, they formed extensive reefs ; at the same time they had a vertical growth, for in some of the reefs the older
® Dr. Carpenter.
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portions appear to have been fossilized before tbe newer were built up on them as a base, exactly like the coral reefs in the tropical ocean of the present day,^ with this difference however, that shells and other crusta- ceans are associated with the corals, while no organic body has been found in the Eozoon reefs ; nevertheless the Eozoon must have had food. It may therefore be inferred that parts at least of that primeval ocean swarmed with animal life, whose remains have been obliterated by metamorphic action. Carbon (which in the form of graphite both constitutes distinct beds, and is disseminated through the siliceous and calcareous strata of the Laurentian series, as well in Norway as in Canada), may indicate the existence of vegetation in the Eozoon period.
The Eozoon is by no means confined to Canada and central Europe. The serpentine marble of Tyree which forms part of the Laurentian system on the west of Scotland, and a similar rock in Skye, when subjected to minute examination, are found to present a structure clearly identical with that of the Canadian Eozoon! And the like structure has been discovered by Mr. Sanford in the serpentine marble of Connemara, known as Irish green. The age of that rock however, is doubtful : for when it was discovered to contain Eozoon, Sir Roderick Murchison who had previously studied its relations was at first inclined to believe it belonged to the Laurentian series ; now however, he considers the Connemara marble to be of the Silurian age. ' If this be the case it proves that the Eozoon was not confined to the Laurentian period, but that it had a vast range in time, as well as in geographical distribution ; in this respect corresponding to many later forms of Eoramini- fera which have been shown by Messrs. Parker and
^ StructTire of the Organic Remains in the Laurentian Rocks of Canada : by J. W. Dawson. Esq., Principal of M'Gill University, Montreal.
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Rupert Jones to range from the Trias to the present epoch.' ^
The Carpenteria found in the Indian seas forms a link between the Foraminifera and Sponges. The shell is a minute cone adhering to the surface of corals and shells, by its wide base which spreads in broad lobes. Double-walled chambers and canals form a spiral within it, and are filled with a spongy sarcode of a more con- sistent texture than the sarcode of the Foraminifera, which in the larger chambers is supported by siliceous spicules similar to those which form the skeletons in sponges.
Class III. — SpoNaES.
According to the observations of Mr. Carter, sponges begin their lives as solitary Amcebse which grow by multiplication into masses, and assume endless forms according to the species ; turbinate, beU-shaped, like a vase, a crater, a fan, flat, foliaceous and lobed or branching and incrusting the surface of stones. All the Amoebae are so connected as to form one compound animal. The whole substance of a sponge is permeated by innumerable tubes which begin in small pores on the surface, and continually unite with one another as they proceed in their devious course to form a system of canals increasing in diameter and ending in wide openings called oscula, on the opposite side of the mass. Currents of water enter through the pores on the surface, and bring minute portions of food which are seized upon by a vast multitude of Amoebse with long cilia which form the walls of the tubes and canals ; and after they have
^ The discovery of Eozoon and the minute details of its stmcture are published in the Intellectual Observer for May 1865. Also the ' Laurentian Rocks of Canada,' a small work, contains articles by various authors on the occurrence, structure, and mineralogy of certain organic remains of these rocks.
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extracted the nutritious part, the offal is carried into the sea through the oscula, by the current of water whose flux is maintained by the vibrations of the cilia. In the compressed and many of the tubular sponges the water passes through them in a straight line ; in branched and encrusting sponges, the afferent and efferent open- ings are on the same surface. The water is inhaled continuously and gently like an animal breathing, but it is rapidly and forcibly ejected ; and in its passage it no doubt furnishes oxygen to aerate the juices of the com- pound animal, whose flesh or sarcode is irritable while alive, and which has the power to open and shut the pores and oscula of the canals, for the whole sponge forms one compound creature whose mass is nourished by the myriads of Amoebae of which it is constituted.
Within the animated sarcode mass of the sponges there is in most cases a complicated skeleton of flbrous network, either horny, calcareous, or siliceous, which supports the soft mass, and determines its form.
Besides the skeleton, the mass of sponges is for the most part strengthened and defended by siliceous, and more rarely by calcareous, spines or spicules, either imbedded among the fibres of the skeleton, or fixed to them by their bases. The fibres of the skeleton network always unite, whether they be horny, calcareous, or siliceous ; the spicules never, though they often lie in confused heaps over one another. They are of in- numerable forms and arrangements. Some are like long needles lying close together in bundles, pointed or with a head like a pin at one or both ends; a great number are stellate with long or short rays ; there may even be several different forms in the same sponge. Many calcareous sponges have cavities full of organic matter ; and when the calcareous matter is dissolved by dilute acid, the organic base is left.
The common commercial sponges have a skeleton
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59
Fig. 103. Section of Sponge.
whicli consists of a network of tubular, horny, tough, and elastic fibres which cross in every direction. They have no spicules or very few ; and when such do project from the horny skeleton, they are gene- rally conical, attached by their bases, and their surface is often beset with little spines ar- ranged at regular inter- vals, which gives them a jointed appearance. The common sponge which is so abundant in the Mediterranean has many forms ; those from the coast of North America are no less varied, but that most used in the United States is turbinate, concave, soft, and tomentose.
In the calcareous sponges a mass of three-rayed spi- cules surround the interior canals, where they are held together by a cartilaginous substance which is wanting in the horny sponges, but which remains in this order after the destruction of the more delicate matter when the sponge is dried. ^ The pores are also occasionally defended by the projecting points of half buried spines.
In nearly every species of this order the pores on the surface are protected by spicules ; and they are also pro- jected from the surface of the large cloacal cavity, and curved towards its opening, to defend it from Annelids and other enemies.'^ Some species have a long ciliary fringe at the orifice of the cavity, through which the water may pass out, but no animal can come in.
3 ' Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertebres,' par MM. Deshayes et H. Milne-Edwards.
* Memoir by Dr. Bowerbank in the Transactions of the Microscopic Society.
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The spicula and skeleton of most of the marine sponges are siliceous and singularly beautiful; the skeleton of the Dactylocalyx pumiceus of Barbadoes is transparent as spun glass ; and a species from Mada- gascar has numerous simple transparent and articu- lated spicules implanted in the siliceous fibres of the skeleton. The Cristata, Papillaris, Ovulata, and many more have siliceous skeletons, some garnished with spicules of various forms, and the surface occasionally covered with a layer of siliceous granules.
The variety in the size, structure, and habits of the marine sponges is very great : temperate and tropical seas have their own peculiar genera and species ; some inhabit deep water, others live near the surface, while many fix themselves to rocks, sea-weeds, and shells, between high and low water mark. There are very few dead oyster, whelk, scallop, and other shells that escape from the ravages of the Cliona, an extremely minute burrowing sponge of the simplest structure, which has a coat of siliceous spicules supposed to be the tools with which it tunnels a labyrinth through the mid-layer of the shell, in a pattern that varies with the species of the sponge. A communication is formed here and there with the exterior by little round holes, through which the sponge protrudes its yellow papillae. Erom the force exhibited by this little sponge, it may perhaps be inferred to possess a rudimentarj^ muscle and nerve.^
Sponges are propagated twice in the year by minute ciliated globules of sarcode, detached from the interior of the aquiferous canals, which swim like zoospores to a distance, come to rest, and lay the foundation of new sponges. The little yellow eggs of Halichondria pani- cea are lodged in the interstices between the interior canals 5 when mature, they are oval and covered with cilia, and are carried out by the currents ; and after
* Professor Huxley's Lectures.
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swimming about for some days fix on a solid object, become covered with, bristles, spread out into a trans- parent film, charged with contractile vesicles of different sizes in all degrees of dilatation and contraction, as well as with sponge ovules. Spicules are developed at the same time, and these films ultimately become young sponges, and if two happen to meet they unite and are soldered together.*^ Besides eggs, larger bodies covered witb radiating spicules are produced, containing granu- lar particles of sarcode, each of which, when set free by the rupture of the envelope, becomes an Amoeba- like creature, and ultimately a sponge.
Fresh-water sponges are sometimes branched, and sometimes spread over stones, wood, and other sub- stances ; and one species covers an earthy mass some inches thick formed 'by its own decayed matter. The skeleton of such species as have one, consists of bundles of siliceous spicules, held together and mixed with, groups of needles, the rods of which project through the surface of the sponge and render it spinous. The motions in the gelatinous sarcode mass are the most remarkable feature in the fresh-water sponges, which all belong to the genus Spongilla. Mr. Carter observed that poi-tions of the surface of some individuals of the Spongilla fluviatilis in bis aquarium had long cilia by means of whicb they rapidly changed their places during the spring, but wben winter came they emitted processes from such parts of their surfaces as were free from cilia and retracted them again just like Amoebse. These portions often bad cells, and when the Amoeba- like motions ceased, a nucleus and nucleolus appeared within them, and at last the whole gelatinous sarcode mass consisted of these cells or globules. Some had no nucleus, but were filled with green or colourless granules.
At certain seasons of the year, whatever the form of
« M. Milne-Edwards.
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the fresh-water sponges may be, a multitude of minute hard yellow bodies are produced in their deeper parts. They consist of a tough coat containing radiating spi- cules like a pair of spoked wheels united by an axle with a pore in its surface. Within this last there is a mass of motionless granular cells, and when put into water the cells come out at the pore and give rise to new sponges.
Insulated groups of germs covered with cells called swarm-cells seem to form parts of the sponges ; they lie completely within the mass of the living sponge. They have the form of a hen's egg, are visible to the naked eye, and when they come into the water they swim in all directions for a day or two ; become fixed ; a white spot within is enlarged ; and the constituents of young sponges appear.^
The generic forms of fossil sponges augment in number and variety from the Silurian to the Cretaceous beds, where the increase is rapid ; but all the sponges which had a stony reticulated form without spicules passed away with the Secondary epoch, so that the family has no representatives in the Tertiary deposits or existing seas. The calcareous sponges which abound in the Oolite and Cretaceous strata, and attain their maximum in the Chalk, are now almost extinct, or are represented by other families with calcareous spicules. Siliceous fossil sponges are particularly plentiful. In England extensive beds of them occur in the Upper Greensand, and in some of the Oolitic and Carboni- ferous Limestones; and some beds of the Kentish Eag are so full of their siliceous spicules, that they irritate the hands of the men who quarry them. Since every geological formation except the Muschelkalk is found in England, the number and variety of fossil sponges are very considerable. The horny sponges are more abundant now than they were in the former seas. Ac-
^ Professor Huxley's Lectures.
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cording- to M. D'Orbigny the whole number of fossil sponges known and described amount to thirty-six genera and 427 species, which is probably much below the real number.^
Class IY. — Infusoria.
The Infusoria, which form the second group of the Protozoa, are microscopic animals of a higher grade than any of the preceding creatures, although they go through their whole lives as isolated single cells of innumerable forms. They invariably appear in stag- nant pools and infusions of animal and vegetable matter when in a state of rapid decomposition. Every drop of the green matter that mantles the surface of pools in summer teems with the most minute and varied forms of animal life. The' species called Monas corpusculus by the distinguished Professor Ehrenberg, has been estimated to be -g-oVo P^^^ ^^ ^ ^^^^ ^^ diameter. ' Of such infusoria a single drop of water may contain 500,000,000 of individuals, a number equalling that of the whole human species now existing upon the face of the earth. But the varieties in size of these animalcules invisible to the naked eye are not less than that which prevails in almost any other natural class of animals. From the Monad to the Loxades or Amphileptus, which are the fourth and sixth part of a line in diameter, the difference in size is greater than between a mouse and an elephant ; within such narrow bounds might our ideas of the range in animal life be limited if the sphere of our observation was not augmented by artificial aid.' ^
This singular race of beings has given rise to the erroneous hypothesis of equivocal or spontaneous gene- ration, that is to say, the production of living ani- malcules by a chemical or even fortuitous combination
^ ' Palseontology,' by Professor Owen. ^ Prof. Owen.
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of the elements of inert matter. That question has been decided bj direct experiment, for Professor Schultz kept boiled infusions of animal and vegetable matter for weeks in air which had passed through a red-hot tube, and no animalcules were formed, but they appeared in a few hours when the same infusions were freely ex- posed to the atmosphere, which shows clearly that the germs of the lowest grade of animal life float in the air, waiting as spores do, till they find a nidus fit for their development.
M. Pasteur, Director of the Normal School in Paris, in a series of lectures published in the ' Comptes Rendus,' has not only proved that the atmosphere abounds in the spores of cryptogamic fungi and moulds, but with infusoria of the form of globular monads, the Bacteria, and vibrios, which are like little rods round at their extremities and extremely active. The Bacteria mona and especially the Bacteria terma, are exceedingly numerous. These minute beings are the principal agents in the decomposition of organic matter. They are more numerous in dry than in wet weather, in towns than in the country, on plains than on mountains.
In a memoir read at the Academy of Sciences, Paris, Mr. J. Samuelson mentions that he had received rags from Alexandria, Japan, Melbourne, Tunis, Trieste and Peru. He sifted dust from the rags from each of these localities respectively through fine muslin into vases of distilled water. Life was most abundant in the vases containing dust from Egypt, Japan, Melbourne, and Trieste. The development of the different forms was very rapid, and consisted of protophytes, Rhizopods and true Infusorise. In most of the vases monads and vibrios appeared first, and from these Mr. Samuelson traced a change first into one then into another species of infu- soria. In the dust from Japan he followed the develop- ment of a monad into what aj^peared to be a minute
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Paramcecium, then into Lexodes cucullus, and finally into Colpoda cucullus. From these and other experi- ments it is proved that many infusoria now classed as distinct types are really one and the same animal in different states of development. That appears to be the case also with the Amoebee. In the dust from Egypt Mr. Samuelson found a new Amoeba whose motions were very rapid; as to shape and mode of motion he compared it to soap bubbles blown with a pipe. He traced the gradual changes of the globular form of this Amoeba until its pseudopodia were in full action, its increase by conjugation, and other circum- stances of its life. In the same dust and in that only, the development of the Protococcus viridis was seen, and that in such abundance that at last the water was tinged green by that plant. In the dust from Egypt a vibrio was changed into a vermiform segmented infu- soria of an entirely new type. Its length varied from the -jfo" to -jip- of an inch, each ring was ciliated, and the whole series of cilia extending along the body acted in concert ; a circlet of them surrounded the anterior segment ; a canal seemed to extend throughout the body. It was propagated by bisection ; the two parts remained attached to one another ; an independent ciliary motion was observed in each which did not interfere with the motion of the whole. It was supposed to be a larval form or series of forms. Mr. Samuelson's observations show, that the atmosphere in all the great divisions of the globe is charged with representatives of the three kingdoms of nature, animal, vegetable, and mineral : that the animal germs not only include the obscure types of monads, vibrios, and Bacteria, but also the Glaucoma, Cyclides, YorticeUa, and other superior Infusorise, and occasionally though very rarely germs of the Nematode worms.
It has been already mentioned that many of the
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microscopic fungi are ferments, aiding greatly in the decomposition of organic matter. They however are by no means the only agents in decomposition. The mo- ment life is extinct in an animal or vegetable, Infusoria of the lowest grade seize upon the inanimate sub- stance, speedily release its atoms from their organic bond, and restore them to the inorganic world whence they came. The ferment which transforms lactic acid into butyric acid is a species of vibrio which abounds in the liquid, isolated or united in chains ; they glide, pirou- ette, undulate, and float in all directions, and multiply by spontaneous division. Yibrios possess the unprece- dented property of living and propagating without an atom of free oxygen; they not only live without air, but air kills them. This singular property forms an essential difference between the Vibrios and the Myco- derms : the former cannot live in oxygen ; the latter cannot live without it, and as soon as it is exhausted within the infusion, they go to the surface to borrow it from the atmosphere.
There are also two groups of Infusoria which possess these opposite characters, one being unable to live in oxygen, while the other cannot live without it ; some- times they even inhabit the same liquid. When the tartrate of lime is put into water along with some ammoniacal and alkaline phosphates, a Monad, the Bacteria terma, and other Infusoria appear after a time. These little animals bud rapidly in an infusion of animal matter, then a slight motion is produced by the ap- pearance of the Monas corpusculum and the Bacterium terma, which glide in wavy lines in all directions in quest of the oxygen dissolved in the liquid, and as soon as it is exhausted they go to the surface in such numbers as to form a pellicle, where by aid of the oxygen they form the simple binary compounds water, ammonia, and carbonic acid. In the meantime the Yibrios, which are
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without oxygen, are developed below, and keep up the fermentation, and between the two, the work of de- composition is completed.
It is not the worm that destroys our dead bodies ; it is the Infusoria, the least of living beings. The in- testinal canal of the higher animals, and of man, is always filled during life not only with the germs of vibrios, but with adult and well-grown vibrios them- selves. M. Leewenhoeck had already discovered them in man, a fact which has since been confirmed. They are inoffensive as long as life is an obstacle to their development, but after death their activity soon begins. Deprived of air and bathed in nourishing liquid, they decompose and destroy all the surrounding substances as they advance towards the surface. During this time, the little Infusoria, whose germs from the air had been lodged in the wrinkles and pores of the skin, are developed, and work their way from without inwards, tiU they meet the vibrios, and after having devoured them, they perish, or are eaten by maggots.
Of all the Infusoria and ferments the Vibrios are the most tenacious of life ; their germs resist the destructive effect of a temperature of 100° Cent. The spores of the Mucedines are still more vivacious ; they grow after being exposed to a heat of 120° Cent., and are only killed by a temperature of 130° Cent. As neither spores of the fungi nor the germs of the Infusoria are ever exposed to so high a temperature while in the atmosphere, they are ready to germinate as soon as they meet with a substance that suits them.
M. Ehrenberg has estimated that the Monas corpus- culum is not more than the 2-i;^th part of an inch in dia- meter ; whence Dr. M. C. White, assuming that the ova of the Infusoria and the spores of minute fungi are only the ^-q^Yl part in linear dimensions of their parent organisms, concludes that there must be an incalculable
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amount of germs no larger than the ^J^^^ or iooTw'fcl^ part of an inch in diameter; and since according to MM. Sullivant and Wormlej, vision with the most powerful microscope is limited to objects of about the 8o;5oo'tb part of an inch in diameter, we need not be sur- prised if Infusoria and other organisms appear in pu- trescible liquids in far greater numbers than the germs in atmospheric dust visible by the aid of microscopes would lead us to expect.
The ferments are the least in size and lowest in or- ganization of all the Infusoria. The higher group which abounds in stagnant pools and ditches are ex- ceedingly numerous, and their forms are varied beyond description. They are globular, ovoid, long and slender, short and thick, many have tails, one species is exactly like a swan with a long bending neck, but whatever the form may be, all have a mouth and gullet. Although the skin of the Infusoria is generally a mere pellicle, that of the red Paramoecium and some others resembles the cellulose covering of a vegetable cell, engraved with a pattern ; but in all cases respiration is performed through the skin.
Whatever form the cell which constitutes the body of the Infusoria may have, the highly contractile dia- phanous pellicle on its exterior is drawn out into minute slender cilia which are the locomotive organs of these creatures. Yibrating cilia form a circlet round the mouth of some of these animalcules, a group of very long ones are placed like whiskers on each side of it, as in the Paramoecium caudatum, and in some cases there is a bunch of bristles in front. Certain Infusoria have cilia in longitudinal rows, and in many the whole body is either partially or entirely covered with short ones. In some Infusoria their vibrations are constant, in others interrupted, and so rapid that the cilia are in- visible. These delicate fibres which vary from the
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sJoth to the fs^tli part of an inch in length, move simultaneously or consecutively in the same direction and back again, as when a fitful breeze passes over a field of corn. These animalcules seize their prey with their cilia, and swim in the infusions or stagnant pools, in which they abound, in the most varied and fantastic manner; darting like an arrow in a straight line, making curious leaps and gyrations, or fixing them- selves to an object by one of their cilia and spinning round it with great velocity, while some only creep.
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Fig. 104. Paramoecimii caudatum. a a, contractile vesicles ; b, mouth.
Fig. 105. Kerona silums. — a, contractile vesicle ; h, mouth ; c c, animalcules which have been swallowed by the Kerona.
These motions, which bring the animalcules into fresh portions of the liquid, are probably excited by the desire for food and respiration.
None of the Infusoria have regular jointed limbs, but certain families of the higher genera have peculiar and powerful organs of locomotion partly consisting of strong ciliary bristles placed on the anterior in rows, used for crawling or climbing, and partly consisting of groups of strong processes which serve as traction feet, generally trailing behind the animal while swimming.
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or used to push it forward. When the bristles or cilia of this high group of Infusoria are used for crawling their motions may be traced to the contraction of the skin; but in the Infusoria that are never fatigued though their cilia vibrate incessantly night and day, it may be presumed that these motions are altogether independent of the will of the animal, in as much as there are innumerable cilia in the human frame that are never at rest during the whole course of our exis- tence, nor do their vibrations cease till a considerable time after death — a striking instance of unconscious and involuntary motion.
The cell which constitutes the body of the Infusoria is filled with sarcode, which is the receptacle of the food, and in that substance all the internal organs of the animalcule are imbedded. In the higher genera it is full of granular particles of different sizes and forms, and it contains a nucleus in its centre, characteristic of cellular protozoa generally. The nucleus is of a dull yeUow colour, and is enclosed in a transparent capsule, which, in the smaller Infusoria reflects light brilliantly. It is generally of an ovoid form and single, but in several species the nucleus is double, and in others there are several nuclei.
The Infusoria have a distinct mouth and gullet, and for the most part another aperture for ejecting the in- digestible part of their food, though some discharge it by the mouth, others through any part of their surface. A few of the larger Infusoria devour the smaller ; others feed on minute vegetable particles, chiefly diatoms. Solid substances that are swallowed are collected into little masses mixed with water, and enter into clear spherical spaces called vacuoles in various parts of the sarcode, where they are partially digested. When the animal has not had food for some time, clear spaces only filled with a very transparent fluid are seen, vari-
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able both in size and number. It was on account of the digestive vacuoles that the Infusoria were called Polygastria by Ehrenberg.
Transparent contractile vesicles of a totally different nature from the vacuoles are peculiarly characteristic of such Infusoria as have a digestive cavity. They exist either singly or in even numbers, from 2 to 16, according to the species, and never change their places ; but they dilate and contract rhythmically at pretty regular intervals. When dilated, they are filled with a clear, colourless fluid, the product of the digestive process which they are supposed to diffuse through the body of the animal.
The Euglena, a very extensive genus of Infusoria, have smooth bodies and green particles imbedded in the sarcode, which fills their interior ; and M. Wohler dis- covered that the green mantle covering the saline springs at E-odenberg and Konigsborner, which consists of three species of these green Infusoria, gives out bub- bles of pure oxygen ; thus indicating a respiratory pro- cess in these animals, the same with that in plants, namely, fixing the carbonic acid of the atmosphere and exhaling oxygen, a singularly close analogy, if not iden- tity, of action. The Euglense are also distinguished by an irregular oblong space in the head filled with a red liquid ; but, as it does not contain a crystalline lens, it can only be regarded as the very earliest rudiment of an eye, totally incapable of distinguishing objects, though probably sensible to the influence of light. They swim with a smooth gliding and often rotatory motion, pro- ducing a kind of flickering on the surface of the water by the lashing of a long filament attached in front, and supposed to be their only organ of locomotion ; never- theless, Mr. Gosse thinks that they are covered with most minute cilia from their manner of swimming. The Euglena acus is one of the prettiest of these little
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animals ; it is long and slender, of a sparkling green with colourless extremities, a thread-like proboscis, and a rich crimson spot. When it swims it rotates, and a series of clear, oblong bodies are seen towards the head, and another at the tail, as if they were imbedded in the flesh round a hollow.
The Loxades bursaria, which is a giant among its fellows, has an ovoid body with green particles imbedded in its interior. The outer skin is spirally grooved, so as to form a kind of network, the elevated points of which support the cilia with which its body is beset. It has a mouth and gullet lined with cilia, which force the food in balls into the soft matter in the interior, where both the food and the green particles circulate, being carried along by a gyration of the gelatinous matter in which they are imbedded.
A species of Peridinium, which is luminous at night, and occasionally covers large portions of the Bay of Bengal with a scarlet coat by day, nearly approaches the character of the unicellular Algse. Mr. J. H. Carter observed that at first, when these animalcules were in a state of transition, their nearly circular bodies were filled with translucent green matter, closely allied, if not identical with, chlorophyll, which disappeared when the animal approaches its fixed state, and a bright red took its place : the Infusoria were then visible to the naked eye, and the sea became scarlet. The scarlet state only lasts for a few days, for each of these innu- merable Infusoria becomes encysted or capsuled, and either floats on the water, or sinks to the bottom and remains motionless. The Euglena sanguinea has a scarlet state analogous to that of the Peridium. It is so minute and versatile that it is difficult to ascertain its true form, which, however, seems to be a spindle shape, with a pointed and blunt round head. In general it is of a rich emerald green, with perfectly clear, colourless
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extremities ; but it sometimes occurs of a deep red, and in such multitudes as to give the water the appearance of blood.'
The Noctiluca miliaris, a luminous inhabitant of the ocean, and the most beautiful of the Infusoria, is dis- tinguished by its comparatively gigantic size, and by its brilliant light, which makes the sea shine like streams of silver in the wake of a ship in a warm summer evening, when they come to the surface in countless multitudes. It is a globular animal like a minute soap bubble, consisting of gelatinous matter, with
Fig. 106. Noctiluca.
a firmer exterior, and being about the thirtieth of an inch in diameter, it is visible to the naked eye, when a glass in which it is swimiiiing is held to the light. On one side of the globe there is an indentation, from whence a tail of muscular fibre springs striped with transverse rings, which aids the animal in swimming. At the root of the tail lies the mouth, bordered on one side by a hard dentile lip leading into a funnel-shaped throat, from whence a long flickering cilium is protruded, supposed to be connected with respiration. The throat
' Mr. Gosse.
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leads into a large cavity in the gelatinons substance, from whence the rudiments of an alimentary canal descend. From the internal surface of the globe sarcode fibres extend through the gelatinous matter, so as to divide it into a number of irregular compartments, in which vacuoles are often seen. They give buoyancy to the animal, and enable it to rise and sink in the water, but seem to disappear when the food is digested. The sarcode fibres constantly change their form and position, and the electric light emitted by a direct exertion of nerve power, which seems to be constant to the naked eye, really consists of momentary scintillations that in- crease in rapidity and intensity by the dash of an oar or the motion of the waves.
The Noctiluca is propagated by spontaneous division, a line appears bisecting the globe, which becomes more and more constricted till the animal is like a dumb-bell ; the slender thread separating the two parts is then broken by their efforts to get free ; the two new creatures swim off in different directions, and soon assume their adult form. But in many individuals there are clear, yellow globules with a well-defined nucleus, of a rich reddish-brown, which are the germs of the animal.
Most of the Infusoria multiply by continuous bisection, like the unicellular Algse. The division generally begins with the nucleus, and is longitudinal or across, according to the form and nature of the animal, and is accom- plished with such rapidity, that, by the computation of Professor Ehrenberg, 268,000,000 of individuals might be produced from one single animalcule of the species Paramoecium in a month. The Paramoecia are repro- duced too by gemmation, and, as they are male and female, they are reproduced also like the higher classes.
The Infusoria have another mode of increasing. The animalcules either draw in or lose their cilia, and con- sequently come to rest. The animal then assumes a
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more globular form, and secretes a gelatinous substance from its surface, which hardens into a case or cyst, in which its body lies unattached and breaks up into minute ciliated gemmules, which swim forth like zoo- spores as soon as they come into the water by the thin- ning away of part of the cyst. In fact the animal is resolved into its offspring, which, as soon as free, gradu- ally acquire the parent's form, though at first they may bear no resemblance to it. The scarlet Peridium seen by Mr. Carter in the Bay of Bengal is propagated in this manner. For the parent Peridium is broken up within its cyst into from two to four new ones, each of which when set free and grown up might undergo the same process.
The Loxades bursaria increases by three distinct methods, and sometimes by two at a time. In autumn, or the beginning of winter, six or eight germs contain- ing granular matter and one or more hyaline nuclei are formed within the animal, each enclosed in two contractile cysts : they lie freely in the cavity of the body, and come one by one into the water through a canal ending in a protuberance in the skin. During this time the pulsations of the vesicles within the Loxades are continued, but the gyration of the green particles is suspended till all the germs are excluded and swim away, and then it is renewed as vigorously as ever. At first the young are totally unlike their parent, but by degrees acquire its form. The Lox- ades is also increased by division, sometimes across, sometimes longitudinally, and, in the latter case, one half is occasionally seen to contain germs which have been excluded before the other half had separated, so that the two distinct systems of projDagation are simul- taneous.^
The Yorticella nebulifera and some others of the
- ' Lectures on Comparative Anatomy,' by Professor Owen.
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VORTICELL^E.
PART III.
Infusoria are remarkable for the diversity of their re- productive powers ; for, besides division and gemmation, they are reproduced by a kind of alternate generation, accompanied by singular metamorphoses. The Yorti- cella, one of the most beautiful animals of its class, lives in pools of fresh water : groups of them are found on almost every mass of duckweed like little blue bells upon slender stalks, creating active currents in the water by the vibrations of long and powerful cilia with
Fig. 107. Vorticellae.
which the margin of the bell is fringed. The lip or edge of the bell is bent outwards into a permanent rim, and a deep groove cleaves the rim on one side, in which a wide cavity forming the mouth is placed. The mouth, the short throat or gullet, and the whole bell, are bristled with vibratile cilia.
The Vorticellse feed on vegetable organisms, chiefly diatoms, and are exceedingly voracious. The cilia round the rim of the bell entangle the food, draw it into the mouth, and those in the gullet force particle after
SECT. II.
THE ACINETA.
77
l^article mixed with water into vacuoles which they make in the interior of the soft sarcode which fills the bell, and there the particles undergo rotation till di- gested and absorbed, and, if refuse remain, it is ejected through a softer part in the outer layer of the bell.
The stem that fixes the animal to a solid object is a tubular con- tinuation of its outer membrane, containing a high- ly contractile fila- ment; and, as the creature is ex- tremely sensitive to external impres- sions, it folds up the ciliated rim of its bell, and its stalk shrinks down in a spiral on the slightest alarm, but the bell opens and the stalk stretches out again as soon as the alarm is over. WhenaYor- ticella is repro- duced by division, the bell separates longitudinally into two parts; one is often smaller than the other, and separates from its parent, swims about till it gets a stem, and fixes itself to an object. When the two parts are of equal size, the division extends to a greater or less distance down the stalk, and as each of these become perfect bells, and do
Pig. 108. Acineta.
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not fall off but subdivide in the same manner, it follows that, by successive divisions, a whole group of these beautiful animals may spring from the same stem, as in fig. 107.
The Vorticella has a most wonderful mode of repro- duction common to a few other Infusoria. A gelatinous substance is secreted by the bell, which hardens and envelopes it in a cyst; the encysted bell then separates from its stalk, and is transformed into an infusorial animal called an Acineta (fig. 108), closely resembling the Actinophrys sol with radiating filaments which it conti- nually stretches out and draws in. A motile ciliated embryo, or Yorticella bud, is then formed within the Aci- neta, which, after a time, comes out at a slit in its side, swims about, gets a stem, fixes to some object, and is de- veloped into a Yorticella. The slit closes again, and the Acineta keeps moving its filaments as usual, and another motile embryo is formed within it, which is emitted by a slit in the same manner, and is also developed into a Vorticella. As these young Yorticellse, or bell animals, may undergo the same transformations, there may be an indefinite alternation of the two forms. The Yorticella- bud, when it issues from the slit in the Acineta, has an oval form, with a circlet of long cilia at its narrow end, a mouth at the more obtuse, a nucleus, and contractile vesicles, and, after swimming about till it finds a suitable place, it becomes fixed by one end of its oval body, a style or stem is formed, which rises rapidly, and the adult shape is developed. The Acinetse are said to live upon Infusoria : they apply the dilated apex of their rays as sucking discs to the animal, and suck its contents tiU it dies. The Tricoda linceus undergoes metamor- phoses analogous to those of the Yorticella, but more numerous and complicated.^
Most of the Yorticellse, and probably the majority of
2 Described in ' The Microscope,' by Dr. Carpenter.
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Infusoria, remain unchanged for a time within their cysts, being then in a state analogous to the hybernal sleep of some of the reptiles. The cyst shelters them from cold and draught, and, when heat and moisture are restored, they resume their active vitality. The motions of the Infusoria are probably automatic, and in some instances consensual; they have neither true eyespecks, though their whole body seems to be conscious of light and dark- ness; nor have they ears ; and, with the exception of touch, which the Vorticellse have in a marvellous degree, it may be doubted whether the Infusoria have any organs of sense whatever, though they avoid obstacles and never jostle one another. The vibrations of their cilia are involuntary as in plants, an instance of the many ana- logies which perpetually occur between the lowest tribes of the two great kingdoms of nature. In both there are examples of propagation by bisection, conjugation, bud- ding, and the alternation of generation, which occurs more frequently among Protozoa than among any other class of animals. There is a perfect resemblance be- tween Zoospores and Protozoa ; they both cease to move, the Zoospore when it secretes its cellulose coat and be- comes a winter or resting spore, the Protozoon previous to encysting, a process presumed to be universal among that class of animals, before subdivision or reproduction begins. It is the dried cysts or germs of the Infusoria that float in the atmosphere as winter spores do, and it is believed that, like the fungi, the same germs may develope themselves into several different forms accord- ing to the nature of the liquid into which they may chance to be deposited ; consequently, it is not necessary that the variety of germs should be very great, although the Infusoria themselves are of numerous forms.'*
The Infusoria, the smallest of beings, apparently so insignificant, and for the most part invisible to the
* ' Lectures on Comparative Anatomy,' by Professor Owen.
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unaided eye, have high functions assigned to them in the economy of nature. They ' are useful for devouring and assimilating the particles of decaying animal and vegetable matter from their incredible numbers, uni- versal distribution, and insatiable voracity — they are the invisible scavengers for the salubrity of the atmo- sphere. They perform a still more important office in preventing the gradual diminution of the present amount of organic matter upon the earth. For, when this matter is dissolved or suspended in water in that state of comminution and decay, which immediately precedes its final decomposition into the elementary gases, and its consequent return from the organic to the inorganic world, these wakeful members of Nature's invisible police are everywhere ready to arrest the fugi- tive organic particles, and turn them back into an ascending stream of animal life. Having converted the dead and decomposing matter into their own living tissues, they themselves become the food of larger In- fusoria, as the Eotifera and numerous other small animals, which, in their turn, are devoured by larger animals as fishes, and thus a pabulum fit for the nourish- ment of the highest organized beings is brought back by a short route from the extremity of the realms of organized matter.'^
^ Lectures on Comparative Anatomy,' by Professor Owen.
ZOOPHYTES. Hi
SECTION III.
HTDROZOA, ZOOPHYTES.
Zoophytes are animals of a mucli higher organization than the Protozoa, inasmuch as they are furnished with special organs of prehension, ofPence and defence, of attachment, and in many of locomotion. For the most part they consist of numerous individuals called Polypes, united in a community, and living together in intimate sympathy and combined action, so as to form one single compound animal.
Zoophytes are divided into two groups, namely the Hydrozoa, whose type is the common fresh- water Hydra, and the Actinozoa, which are composite animals, in- cluding the reef-building corals, whose polypes are formed according to the type of the Actinia, or common Sea Anemone. The Hydrozoa consist of seven orders, the first of which are the Hydridse, inhabitants of fresh water ; the next constitute the oceanic Hydrozoa, some of which, though extremely varied in form, are connected by the most wonderful relations.
The solitary Hydra that lives in fresh-water pools and ditches, consists of a soft cylindrical muscular bag, capable of being stretched into a slender tube, shrunk into a minute globe, or widely distended at will. At one end there is a circular mouth, which is highly sensi- tive, opening, closing, or protruding like a cone, and surrounded at its base by six long flexible arms called tentacles, arranged symmetrically. The mouth opens
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THREAD-CELLS AND DARTS.
PAET III.
into a cavity extending thronghont the length of the body, which is the stomach ; the other end of the
sac is narrow, and ter- minates in a disk-shaped sucker, by which the Hy- dra fixes itself to aquatic plants, or floating objects, from whence it hangs down, and the tentacles float in the water.
The sac or body is formed of two layers, an inner and an outer layer, of firmer texture, formed of cells imbedded in a kind of sarcode, and the space between the two layers is filled with a semifluid substance, mixed with solid parti- cles and full of vacuoles. The inner and outer layers are united at the mouth, and the tentacles are closed tubes in communi- cation with the cavity of the stomach. The ex- terior layer of the tenta- cles is beset with wart- like excrescences, formed of clusters of cells, with
Fiff. 109. Thread-cells and darts.— A, B, c, D, , • xi x
Thread-cells at rest ; k, p, g, h, appearance a larger OUe lU the CCutre of the darts when projected. ^^^^ ^.^j^ ^ j.^^.^^ j^
all of them a long spicula, or sting, often serrated at the edge, is coiled up like a thread, and fixed by one end to a kind of tube, like the inverted finger of a glove, that the animal can dart out in an instant.
SECT. III. TENTACLES OF HYDRJE. 83
Thus armed, the tentacles are formidable weapons ; they are highly contractile and wonderfully strong, tena- ciously adhering to the small worms and aquatic insects on which the Hydree feed, and they are aided by the roughness of their surface. They transfix their prey, and are believed to infuse a liquid poison from the dart, or thread-cells, into the wound, then twisting their other tentacles round the victim, it is instantly conveyed to the mouth, and slowly forced into the digesting cavity, where it is seen through the transparent skin to move for a short time, but as soon as the nutritious juice is ex- tracted, the animal ejects the refuse by its mouth. In the inner layer, enclosing the cavity of the stomach, there are cells containing a clear liquid with coloured particles floating in it, which is supposed to perform the part of a liver ; and, as the Hydrse have no respiratory organs, their juices are aerated through their skin. They havo no perceptible nerves nor nerve centres, yet they are irri- table, eminently contractile, and are attracted towards the light — all these being probably sympathetic motions.
Though in general stationary, the Hydra can change its place ; it bends its body, stretches to a little distance, and fixes its anterior extremity firmly by its tentacles ; then it detaches its sucker and brings it close to its mouth, fixes it, and again stretches its fore part to a little distance along its path, and repeats the same process, so that it moves exactly after the manner of certain caterpillars. It can even move along the water by attaching the expanded disk of its sucker to the surface, where it soon dries on being exposed to the air, and becomes a float, from whence the Hydra hangs down with its tentacles extended like fishino- lines, as in fig. 110 ; or it can use them as oars to row itself along under the surface of the water.
On account of their simple organization, the Hydrse are endowed with the most astonishing tenacity of life.
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HYDRA'S TENACITY OF LIFE.
PAET in.
As the whole animal is nourished from the surface of the digestive cavity, they appear to suffer no incon- venience from being turned inside-out, the new cavity
performing all the func- tions of digestion as well as the old one. They may be cut into any number of pieces, and, after a little time, each piece becomes a perfect Hydra. The head may be cut off and they get a new one ; or it may be split into two or three parts or more, and the animal becomes many- headed ; and, what is still more marvellous, two Hydrae may be grafted \ WW } together direct, or head
C If ^ ^^^ ^^^^' ^^^ they com-
^^' ^ bine into one animal.
These singular and vo- racious creatures increase like plants by budding. A little protuberance rises on the body by the bulging out of the double skin or wall, so that the interior of the bud is a clear cavity in communication with the stomach of the Hydra (fig. 110, h). The bud increases in length, opens at its extremity into a mouth, and gradually acquires the size and form of its parent (fig. 110, c) ; the communication is then by degrees closed, and at last the matured bud drops off and becomes an inde- pendent Hydra. Dr. Carpenter observed that this pro-
Fig. 110. Hydra fuscca.
SECT. III. COMPOUND FRESH-WATER HYDRJE. 85
cess, which so closely resembles the budding of plants, must be regarded as a modification of the ordinary nutritious process. The same may be said of the power of reparation, which every animal body possesses in a greater or less degree, but which is most remarkable among the lower tribes, for when an entire member is renewed, or even when the whole body is regenerated from a small fragment, which is the case in many po- lypes, it is by a process exactly analogous to that which takes place in the reparation of the simplest wound in our own bodies, and which is but a modification of the process that is constantly renewing, more or less rapidly, every portion of our frame.
There is but one species of the single colourless Hydra, but there are four compound fresh-water Hydrse in Eng- land— the rubra, viridis, vulgaris, which is of an orange brown, and the fusca. They have coloured particles, either imbedded in their external coat, or immediately under it. The Hydra viridis and H. vulgaris have short tentacles, whilst H. fusca, which is a rare animal, has arms from seven to eight inches long, and so contractile, that they can shrink into the space of small tubercules. All these four Hydrse are compound and permanently arborescent animals ; each springs from one individual hydra of its own race, which increases in length and forms the stem, while young ones spring from it and from one another consecutively, like the compound branches of a tree. The numerous tentacles that hang down like fishing lines, thickly covered with thread-cells and their envenomed darts, catch prey for the whole colony, because the communication between the stomachs of the young polypes or Hydrse and that of their parent is never cut off, as it is when the offspring is deciduous ; but tubes from the base of each individual Hydra or polype, pass- ing through the stalks and branches of the living tree, unite their stomachs with the stomach or assimilating
86 OCEANIC HYDROZOA. paht iii.
cavitj in tlie main stem. Each individual polype, some- times to the number of nineteen, after having digested its food or prey, ejects the refuse from its mouth, and the nutritious juice traverses the labyrinth of tubes to that general reservoir.
Since every portion of the bodies of the Hydrse is nearly of the same kind, and as every part of their sur- face inside and outside is in contact with the water in which they live, and from whence they derive oxygen to aerate their juices, no circulation is necessary in these simple animals, either for nutrition of their tissues, or to furnish them with oxygen.
If the Hydrse only produced deciduous buds which are developed into facsimiles of their parent, their race would become extinct, since they die in winter, unless kept artificially in water of mild temperature ; but the animals are hermaphrodite, so that each individual pro- duces fertilized eggs in autumn, which are hatched in spring, so that the Hydra is alternately propagated by deciduous buds and by eggs. The fresh-water hydrse are the only hydroids that are locomotive, all the others being fixed to some solid substance.
The oceanic Hydrozoa comprehend the three families of CorynidEe, Tubulariidse, and Sertulariidse. They are chiefly compound animals, numerous in genera and species, and have great variety of form. They may be simple and slender, they may be creeping or like a bush or tree, more or less compound and regularly branched according to the form of the polypary or tubular sub- stance which unites their numerous hydra-form polypes into one animal. In general they are exceedingly small ; three or four inches in height is quite gigantic. There is scarcely a still clear pool left by the retiring tide among the rocks along the British coasts, that does not abound with these beautiful creatures attached to stones, old shells, or sea-weeds. But they must be
SECT. in. COMPOUND OCEANIC HYDROZO A. 87
sought for amidst the luxuriant marine vegetation and profusion of animal life which adorn these rocky pools, otherwise they would escape notice ; and even when large enough to be conspicuous, the eye must be aided in order to see the wonderful minuteness and delicacy of their structure. The aquaria have furnished an op- portunity to study their forms, habits, and the marvellous circumstances of their lives and reproduction.
The compound oceanic Hydrozoa are essentially the same in structui-e as the compound fresh-water Hydrse. They differ, however, from them in often having a greater number of tentacles, and in being defended by a firm and flexible horny coat; notwithstanding which they increase in size by budding from the base of a single primary polype. The horny coat covers the bud and grows with it ; but as soon as the polype is formed within it, the top of the bud 0]3ens and the young polype protrudes itself, so that a separation is effectually prevented ; and while the stem and branches are being formed, and increase by the continual deve- lopment of new buds, the communication between the stomachs of the whole brood of polypes with that in the parent stem is maintained by tubes from their bases passing through the interior fleshy matter in the branches.
In short these marine Hydrozoa consist of a ramified tube of sensitive animal matter, covered by an external flexible and often jointed and horny coat or skeleton, and they are fed by the activity of the tentacles and the digestive powers of frequently some hundreds of hydra- formed polypes, as in the Sertularia cupressina. The com- mon produce of their food circulates as a fluid through the tubular cavities, for the benefit of the whole commu- nity, while the indigestible part is ejected from the mouth of each individual. The stomach of each polype has a more or less ciliated lining, containing cells with nutri-
88 REPRODUCTION OF POLYPES. part in.
tive juices, which are supposed to perform the part of* a liver. The liquid which circulates in these animals is colourless, with solid particles floating in it ; and there is reason to believe that sea- water is admitted into the tubes, and that, mixed with the juices prepared by the polypes, it circulates through the ramified cavities, is sent into the hollow prehensile tentacles, and returns back into the digesting cavity after having contributed to res]3iration by its oxygen. The movements of this fluid appear to depend upon the delicate ciliated fibre which lines the cavities of the tentacles and those of the stem and branches of the compound animal, possibly aided by vital contraction. The soft skin of the ten- tacles contains cells full of liquid, with a thread and its sting or dart coiled up within it. These thread stings are protruded when the skin is irritated, which fre- quently gives the tentacles the appearance of being beset with bristled warts. In many instances these kinds of Hydrozoa are covered with a gelatinous sub- stance, either as a film or thick coat.
The reproduction of many of these arborescent or com- pound Hydrozoa is one of the most unexpected and ex- traordinary phenomena in the life-history of the animal creation. For besides the system of consecutive budding from a single polype which builds up the compound animal, peculiar buds are formed and developed, which bear no resemblance whatever to the polype buds : on the contrary, when mature, they assume an organiza- tion exactly the same as that of the common jelly-fish or Medusoid Acalephge, and swim freely away from their fixed parent as soon as they are detached. These medu- siform zooids, which are extremely small, consist of a cup or umbrella-shaped bell of colourless transparent matter, which is their swimming apparatus ; it is con- tracted and expanded by a muscular band under the rim, the water is alternately imbibed and forcibly ejected.
SECT. ni. MEDUSIFORM ZOOIDS. 89
and by its reaction the zooid is impelled in a contrary direction. From the centre of the bell a stomach han^rs down in the form of a proboscis, with a mouth at its ex- tremity, either with or without tentacles and sting-cells. Four canals, or a greater number, which begin in the stomach, radiate through the transparent matter of the bell, and are united by a circular canal round the rim ; they convey the nutritious liquid from the stomach throughout the system. This general structure may be traced in the zooids of the three great families of the oceanic hydraform -zoophytes, in a greater or less degree, from deciduous perfect meduste to such as are imperfect and fixed.
These medusiform zooids are male and female, and when detached from their parent they are independent creatures, each of them being furnished with nutrient and locomotive organs of its own. They produce ferti- lized eggs, which are developed into ciliated locomotive larvse; after a time these lose their cilia and acquire a rayed sucking disc, with which they ^s. themselves permanently to a solid object, and, after various changes, each gets a mouth and tentacles and becomes a perfect young hydra. Thus a brood of young hydrse is pro- duced, each of which acquires the compound form of its parent by budding, and as each of these compound animals in its turn gives off medusa-buds, there is a cycle of the alternate forms of hydra and medusa or jelly- fish, showing a singular connection between two animals which seem to have nothing in common. The analogy which so often prevails between plants and animals ob- tains here also, for the medusa-buds bear the same re- lation to the hydra or polype-buds that the flower-buds of a tree do to the leaf-buds : the flower-buds contain the germs of future generations of the tree, while the leaf-buds contain only the undeveloped stems, stalks, and leaves of the individual plant on which they grow.
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SYNCORYNA SARSII.
TART III.
The Corjnidae form the first of the three families of the oceanic hydra zoophytes. They comprise six genera, and many species of compound animals of various forms, each derived from a single animal by budding ; and although they possess a thin flexible coat, the polypes are sheathed either in a thin membrane or bone. Their club-shaped tentacles form either a single or double circlet round the base of their conical mouth, and are also scattered over their bodies when bare.
The zooids are developed at once in the Syncoryna Sarsii, which is a long, thinly branched, and horny
zoophyte, with a single naked, spindle - shaped polype at the extremity of each branch, as in fig. Ill, A. The bodies of the polypes are studded with numerous tentacles, among which buds appear (fig. Ill, a, 6) ; these gra- dually expand into bell- shaped medusa-zooids (fig. Ill, c),some being mascu- line and others feminine. They drop off their parent, swim away by the con- traction of their bell, and their fertilized eggs are developed into single hydra3, which become ar- borescent like their parent by budding.
The family of the Ser- tulariidse take branching forms, sometimes of perfect symmetry : they have a firm, horny coat, which not only covers the stem and branches, but becomes a cup for the protection of the polype.
Fig. 111.
Syncoryna Sarsii with Medusa- buds.
SECT. III. TUBULARIID.^. 91
The most common form of the family of the Tubu- laria has no branches : it has an erect, hollow stem like a straw, sometimes a foot high, coated by a horny sheath. The polype which terminates each plant has a mouth surromided by alternately long and short ten- tacles. The stomach of the polype is connected with the hollow in the stem by a muscular ring, by whose alternate dilatation and contraction, at intervals of eighty seconds, the fluid is forced up from below, enters the stomach, and is again expelled. Another liquid carrying solid particles circulates in a spiral through the whole length of the stem. Some of this family are propagated by perfect deciduous medusae, others by im- perfect fixed ones ; both are developed on the polypes or among their tentacles. Like the fresh-water Hydrse, these creatures can restore any part of their bodies that is injured.
Numerous instances might be given to show that the minute medusiform zooids are only a stage or phase in the life of an oceanic hydra : conversely it will now be shown, that the single simple hydra is but a stage in the life-history of the highly organized medusa, jelly-fish, or sea-nettle of sailors, the Acalepha of Cuvier.
The medusse vary in size, from microscopic specks that swim on the surface of the sea in a warm summer day to large umbrella-shaped jelly fish almost a yard in diameter. They abound in every part of the ocean and in all seas, often in such shoals that the surface of the water is like a sheet of jelly. Their substance is trans- parent, pure, and nearly colourless ; chiefly consisting of water, with so little solid matter, that a newly caught medusa, weighing two pounds, dries into a film scarcely weighing thirty grains.
The Pulmograde Medusse, which swim by the con- tractions of their umbrella-shaped respiratory disc, form two distinct groups, the naked-eyed medusse and the covered-eyed group. Both are male and female;
92 NAKED-EYED MEDU8M pakt hi.
eacli has its own form of thread-cells ; and the stinging power or strength of the poison is nearly in proportion to the size of the animal and the coarseness of its threads. The disk, or umbrella-shaped swimming organ, in both groups consists of a large cavity included between two layers of gelatinous matter, which unite at the rim. The interior membrane, called the sub-umbrella, is en- circled at its edge by a ring of highly contractile mus- cular fibre like the iris of our eyes, by which this swim- ming organ is expanded and contracted. From the centre of the sub-umbrella a stomach, in the form of a proboscis, is suspended, which is of a very different structure in the two groups.
The Thaumantia pilosella, a member of the naked- eyed group, is like an inverted watch-glass (fig. 112), less than an inch in diameter. The roof of this umbrella is much thicker than the sides, and gradually thins off |;<^\^^^?&:. towards the rim. The proboscis, or v^"^ stomach, descends from the centre of the
Fig.n2. Thaumantia sub-umbrcUa, but uot SO far as to the pilosella. g^^g ^£ ^^ ^^j^ . ^^ g^^^g |j^ ^ mouth with
four sensitive fleshy lips. Four slender canals, which originate in the cavity of the stomach, radiate from the centre of the roof of the umbrella and extend to its mar- gin, where they unite at the quadrants with a canal which encircles the rim, and are prolonged beyond it in the form of tentacles armed with numerous thread-cells containing poisonous darts. These tentacles must be formed of muscular fibre, for they are very irritable : each of them may be extended and contracted sepa- rately or along with the others ; they guide the medusa through the water, and can anchor it by twisting round a fixed object.
The prey caught is digested in the stomach, the re- fuse is ejected by the mouth, and the nutritious fluid that has been extracted is carried up through the base
SECT. III.
NAKED-EYED MEDUSA.
93
of the stomach into the four radiating canals, to supply the waste and nourish the system. The digestive cavity and canals are lined with a soft membrane, covered with cilia, whose vibrations maintain the circulation of the juices and perform the duty of a heart; for the medusae have none, nor have they any special respiratory system : their juices are aerated through the im^der-surface of the rim of the umbrella, while passing through the circular canal lying either within the water or on its surface.
A fringe of filamental tentacles hangs down into the water from the rim of the disc or umbrella, which is studded at equal distances by fleshy bulbs, each of which has a group of fifty dark eye- specks, being the rudiment of an eye ; and if the animal be disturbed when in the dark, each eye-speck shines with a brilliant phosphoric light, and the umbrella looks as if it were begirt with a garland of stars.
Close to the edo^e of the canal which encircles the
Fig. 113. Otclites of Magnified Thaumantias.
margin of the umbrella, there are eight hollow semi- oval enlargements of the flesh, two in each quadrant formed by the four radiating canals : they are the eight ears of the medusa, for in these hollow organs there are from thirty to fifty solid, transparent, and highly refrac- tive spheres, arranged in a double row, so as to form a crescent, those near its centre being larger than the more remote. The solid spheres are analogous to the otolites in the ears of the more highly organized animals.
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Mr. M'Cready has discovered nerve-centres behind eacli tentacle, and under each, marginal coloured speck in several species of the open-eyed medusse, which places this group of Acalephse in a higher grade than any of the preceding orders. The medusse swim by the mus- cular energy of their umbrellas : at each rhythmical con- traction the water, which enters by the mouth and fills the great central cavity within the umbrella, is forced out again through an orifice at the other end, and by its reaction the medusa is impelled with considerable ve- locity in the contrary direction, so that the top of the umbrella goes first, and all its tentacles are dragged after it.
The medusse are dioecious : in the males four repro- ductive cells full of reddish or purple granular matter surround the cavity of the stomach, and appear like a coloured cross through the top of the gelatinous um- brella. In the females, at a point just before the four radiating canals enter the marginal canal, the flesh on the exterior of the umbrella swells out into bulbs, con- taining vessels full of clear eggs with minute globular yolks. These eggs, when fertilized, are hatched, and the young are developed within these ovaries, so that they come into the water as a kind of infusorial ciliated animalcule destitute of a mouth. One end of the crea- ture acquires a suctorial disc, fixes itself to an object, and uses its cilia. The other end opens into a mouth, round which tentacles like fishing lines sj^ring forth ; the central part is converted into the cavity of the stomach, and thus a perfect hydra is formed, capable of being propagated naturally by budding, or artificially by being cut in pieces, each piece becoming a perfect hydra, dif- fering in no respect from a common simple fresh- water Hydra.
From one of these, numberless successive generations of simple hydrse may be produced by budding, all catch-
SECT. III. DEVELOPMENT OF MEDUSA-BUDS.
95
ing their prey with their tentacles and digesting it in their stomachs. The limits to this budding-system seems to be indefinite : years may pass in this stage, but at length it ceases, and either the original hydra, or one of its descendants, undergoes a series of remarkable changes. The body of the hydra lengthens into a cylinder ; it is then marked transversely by a number of constrictions beginning at the free end ; these become deeper and deeper, till at length they break up the body into a pile of shallow cups, each lying in the hollow of the other, and leaving a kind of fleshy wall at the point of sus- pension or fixture. The edges of the cups are divided into lobes with a slit in each, in which the coloured rudiment of the eye is sunk. The cups are permanent, and characteristic of the group of naked- eyed medusae. After a time, the cups begin to show contractile mo- tions, which increase till the fibre of their attachment is broken, and then the superim- posed cups are detached
-fVm-n +TiP -nilp nriA n-pfo-p Fig. 114. A,B, c, D, developmentof Medusa-btide; irom Xne piie one alter ^^ polype-body ; b, tentacles ; c, a secondary
another, and swim freely ^^J^^ °^ tentacles a, proboscis; e, new polype-
away by the contrac- tions of their lobes as young medusae, leaving what remains of the parent hydra to repair its loss and
96 ALTERNATION OF GENERATION. paet iii.
again repeat tliis singular process. However, the young medusae are not yet perfect. As they increase in size the divisions on the edge of the cup fill up; a pro- boscis-shaped stomach, v^ith its four coloured cells and its square mouth, is developed from the centre of the sub-umbrella ; the radiating canals extend from the cen- tral cavity, the encircling canal and fringe form round the umbrella- shaped cups, and the result is a highly organized Thaumantia pilosella, in whose life-history a simple hydra forms a singular stage.
Thus hydrse produce medusae whose offspring are hydrse, and perfect medusae produce hydrae whose off- spring are perfect medusae. However, the law of the alternation of generation is by no means peculiar to the Thaumantiae. Many species of medusae are subject to it, as the Turris neglecta, a beautiful little medusa not larger than a hempseed, common on the British coasts. It has a white muscular pellucid umbrella, a large proboscis of a rich orange colour at its upper part : in the orange-coloured flesh of it there are ovaries con- taining rose-coloured eggs, which are hatched within them, and come into the water as ciliated gemmules, which, after swimming about for a time, become fixed and are developed into small hydrae of a rich purple colour with sixty-four tentacles. From these hydrae others bud off indefinitely till the time comes when one of them becomes lengthened, constricted, divided into cups which drop off, and finally become a brood of the Turris neglecta.
The naked-eyed medusae are extremely numerous. There are six orders of them and many genera, chiefly distinguished by the position and nature of their ovaries and the number of canals which radiate through their swimming organs. Both of the medusae that have been described have four radiating canals ; yet they belong to different orders, for the ovaries of the Thaumantia are in the edge of the umbrella, while those of the Turris
SECT. III. COVERED-EYED MEDUSA.
97
are in the substance of the proboscis. Neither of these kinds have more than four ovaries, but some other kinds have eight ovaries and eight radiating canals. Most of the canals are simple, but in one genus they are branch- ing. All are furnished v^ith tentacles, some of them having stings, others none.
The covered-ejed group consists only of two natural divisions — the Rhizostoma, or many-mouthed medusae, and the Monostoma, or one-mouthed medussG. In both the coloured eye-specks at the margin of the umbrella are larger and more numerous, than in the naked-eyed group, and they are covered with a hood. The proboscis of the one-mouthed order terminates in a square mouth, the four angles of which are prolonged into tentacles with a solid hyaline axis. They have a fringed mem- brane along their under-surface, containing numerous stinging thread-cells. Sixteen canals, connected with the stomach or cavity of the proboscis, radiate over the flattish, cup-shaped umbrella; eight of these are branched, and terminate in the circular canal which runs round its fringed edge, and they form the nutrient and respiratory system of the animal, while the eight simple and alternate canals terminate in eight openings at the rim of the umbrella, through which the refuse or indi- gestible part of the food is discharged, thus forming an exception to the other pulmograde medusae, and indeed to the Hydrozoa in general, which eject it at the mouth. All the canals are lined with cilia, whose vibrations maintain the circulation of the fluids, and perform the duties both of a heart and respiratory apparatus. Dr. A. Krohn has observed that in three species of the genus Pelagia belonging to the covered-eyed medusae, the young are at once developed as medusae without the interven- tion of the hydra form.
The disk of the Ehizostoma, or root-mouthed medusae, is rather flat, and the large proboscis is unlike any VOL. II. H
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divided very long
Fig. 115. Rhizostoma.
other of the tribe. In the naked-eyed medusEe diges- tion is performed in the cavity of the proboscis ;
— = but in this order the
proboscis is into four
branches ending in club - shaped knobs (fig. 115), and nutri- ent tubes extend to their extremities from the great central cavity in the umbrella. Their broadish frilled bor- ders are divided and subdivided along their whole lengths, and the nutrient canals, Avhich follovr all their ramifi- cations, end in numerous fringed pores upon their edges and upon the club-shaped ends of the quadrifid proboscis. These numerous pores are mouths ; they absorb minute animalcules, which are digested while passing through the united canals to the great central cavity of the umbrella, which receives the products of digestion. Eight canals radiate from that great cavity and traverse the umbrella ; and the nutrient fluid, mixed with the sea-water, passes from the great cavity through these canals into an elegant network of large capillary tubes spread on the under-surface of the margin of the umbrella, which is always in contact with the water ; and in this beautiful respiratory organ the car- bonic acid gas is exchanged for the oxygen in the water of the sea. The indigestible part of the food is dis- charged through the mouths or pores, whose edges are prolonged into solid tentacles containing thread-cells, with their usual weapons of offence and defence. Besides
SECT. III. ARMED OR STINGING MEBUSJE. 99
these armed tentacles, whicL. are very numerous in the covered-eyed group, the gelatinous umbrella has a mul- titude of oval thread- cells on its external coat, in each of which a very long filament is spirally coiled, which darts out to a considerable distance on the smallest touch, and stings severely.
A few only of the British pulmonigrade medusae sting : the Cyanea capillata, one of the single-mouthed covered- eyed family, is most formidable. It has very long ten- tacles, w^hich it can throw off if they get entangled, but they continue to sting, even after they are detached from the medusa.
This is one of the most remarkable instances of the inherent irritability of muscular fibre still in full force after the tentacles have been separated from the living animal. In many of the lower animals, as in the Hydra itself, vitality is so far from being extinguished in the severed members that it repairs the injury. Since the covered-eyed medusse have eyes, ears, and very sensitive tentacles, it may be inferred that they possess nerves of sight, hearing, and touch, though none have been dis- covered, probably on account of the softness and trans- parency of their tissues. The stinging power by which they kill their prey and defend themselves may be classed among the consensual powers prompted by the sympathetic sensations of hunger or danger.
In all latitudes the medusse are highly luminous, espe- cially in warm seas. Professor Yogt remarked that flashes of light passed over their disk when they touched one another in swimming, and they appear at intervals like globes of fire among the lesser lights of the Nocti- lucse ; if from involuntary nervous contraction, as is most likely, the light must be electric.
The medusse are infested by many parasites. Entozoa are often abundant in their gelatinous substance, and crustaceans of various kinds and colours, such as shrimps,
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sand-hoppers, and a galsemon of glassj transparency, move abont in the substance of their disc and arms, entering unscathed by the poisonous darts which inflict instant death on others of their class. The Libanea crab, of gigantic size compared with its host, is in the habit of taking up its abode between the four columns of the Rhizostoma. But the most singular intruder is the Philomedusa Yogtii, which is a polype with twelve thick short tentacles, its whole body and tentacles being covered with cilia and thread-cells. These polypes live in the disk, arms, and stomach of the medusae, and, when taken out, their stomachs are found to contain frag- ments of the tentacles of their host, and even the thread- cells with their stings. The larger polypes devour the smaller ones, and the latter live for weeks within the larger ones without apparent inconvenience to either.'^
Mr. M'Cready mentions that the larvse of the medusa Cunina octonaria swim as parasites in the cavity of the bell of the medusa Turritopsis nutricula, which not only famishes a shelter and dwelling-place to the larvse during their development, but it also serves as a nurse, by permitting the parasites, which adhere by their ten- tacles, to take the food out of its mouth by means of their long proboscides. They undergo many trans- formations, and become nearly perfect medusse while within their nurse.
Medusse of different species are met with in every sea from the equator to the poles. They are eminently social, migrating in enormous shoals to great distances. The largest shoal of young sea nettles on record was met with in the Gulf Stream, ofP the coast of Florida, by a vessel bound for England. The captain likened them to acorns ; they were so crowded as completely to cover the sea, giving it the appearance from a distance of a
« Dr. F. Miillcr, of Santa Caterina.
SECT. III. CILIOGRADE IIYDROZOA. loi
boundless meadow in the yellow leaf. He was five or six days in sailing tlirougli them, and in about sixty days afterwards, on returning from England, he fell in with the same school, as the sailors call it, ofP the Western Islands, and was three or four days in sailing through them again. Mr. Piazzi Smyth, when on a voyage to TeneriflPe in 1856, fell in with a vast shoal of medusse. With a microscope he found part of the stomach of one of these creatures so full of diatoms of various forms — stars, crosses, semicircles, embossed circles and spirals — that he computed the whole stomach could not have contained less than 700,000. The flinty shells of the diatoms ejected in myriads by the medusse, accumulate in the course of ages into siliceous strata, which, heaved up by subterranean fires, at length be- come the abode of man. Thus gelatinous transj)arent beings indirectly aid in forming the solid crust of the earth by means of the microscoxDic vegetation of the sea.
Ciliograde Rydrozoa,
The ciliograde Acalephse, which form four orders and many genera, and which swim by means of symmetrical rows of long cilia, are represented on the British coasts by the Cydippe pileus and the Beroe Forskalia (fig. 116), little delicately tinted, gelatinous, and transparent ani- mals that shine in the dark.
The Cydippe pileus is a globe three-eighths of an inch in diameter, like the purest crystal, with eight bands of large cilia, stretching at regular distances from pole to pole. A mouth, surrounded by extremely sensitive ten- tacles, is situated at one pole, the vent at the other. The Cydippes poise and fix themselves to objects by means of two very long tentacles, fringed on one edge by cirri, that is, short curled tentacles. These cirrated tentacles, which in some species stretch out to more than twenty
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CILIOGRADE HYDROZOA.
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times tlie length of the animal, can be instantaneously retracted into cavities at the posterior end of the body, while, at the same time, the marginal filaments are as rapidly coiled up in a series of close spirals. The whole of these complex organs are enclosed within the limits of a pin's head.
The manner in which these little gems swim is beau- tiful; sometimes they rise and descend slowly, like a balloon, and when they glide along the surface of the water in sunshine, the cilia on the eight meridional
Fig. 116. A, Cydippe pileiis ; B, Beroe Forskalia.
bands exhibit the most brilliant iridescence. The long cirrated tentacles follow all their motions in grace- ful curves, or hang indolently down, and sometimes they are suddenly stretched to their full length, and as sud- denly retracted, and in all their varied convolutions the cirri that fringe them are in constant vibration, and ex- hibit all the tints of the rainbow. Sometimes these creatures whirl round their axis with great rapidity, but, active as they are, no nervous system has yet been dis- covered in them.
The common Beroe is like an elongated melon, ob-
Fig. 117, p. 103.
PRAYA DIPHYS.
SECT. TIT. CAMPANOGRADE ACALEPHJE. 103
tiisely octangular, with eight rows of cilia, extending from a mouth at one end to a kind of ciliated star at the other. The Beroes are of a gelatinous transparent sub- stance, which expands and contracts with great facility : it is always expanded when they swim.
The Cestum Veneris belongs to another genus of the same family. It is like a blue ribbon, the mouth and vent being on the opposite sides in the middle of the band, which is furnished throughout its whole length with active cilia for swimming. The ciliograde Hydrozoa are monoecious, and do not produce medusa-zoids.
Campanograde Acalephce,
There is a group of oceanic Hydrozoa, consisting of several families, which are fed by numerous suctorial organs called polypites, with tentacula and thread-cells attached to their bodies, so that they are analogous to the marine hydrse, in being colonies of individuals luiited into a compound animal. Some have air-vessels, which enable them to float on the surface of the water ; but the locomotive organs of this group are bells, so that they may be called Campanograde Acalephse.
The family of the Diphyidse are colourless, and of such transparency that they are all but invisible when in the water, and are gelatinous masses clear as crystal when taken out of it. They are chiefly inhabitants of the warmer parts of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, but many fine specimens are found in the Mediterranean. Of these the Praya diphys is one of the most extraordi- nary (fig. 117). It has two large swimming-bells, their mouths turned backwards, with which the whole com- munity is connected. They are nearly equal in size, soft, gelatinous, transparent, and colourless, rounded in front, open and truncated behind. The adjacent sides are parallel, with a groove between them, into which
I04 DIPIIYID^. PART III.
one end of tlie long tubular filiform body of the animal is fixed by slender tubes, through, which a nourishing liquid passes into radiating canals in the bells, and from them into a circular canal at their margins, which are surrounded by a muscular contractile iris, like that in our eyes, which shuts and opens the bells. By the alternate absorption and ejection of the water the bells go head foremost, and regulate the motions of the whole com- pound animal. When both bells are active it goes straight forward ; when the right hand bell is alone in action^ it goes to the left, and vice versa y in fact, the bells act as a rudder.
The slender cylindrical body or axis of the Pray a is so transparent, that the cavity and muscular fibres of its walls are distinctly seen. These animals are extremely contractile. Professor Vogt mentions an individual he met with at Nice more than three feet long, when ex- tended on the surface of the water, which could contract itself into little more than a finger length. It was said to have had a hundred isolated groups of polypites with their appendages attached to it; but in general the Prayse are not so long, and seldom have more than thirty or forty of these isolated groups, which are attached to the under-side of the long flexible body, and hang down like a rich and beautiful fringe. In the figure, the po- sition of the numerous groups of polypites and their ap- pendages are merely indicated by round marks and lines.
In the body of the Praya diphys (fig. 117), as in that of the whole family, there is a nutritious liquid, which, by means of cilia, flows on its interior surface in two directions : it enters the canals in the two large bells, and supplies them with nourishment.
The polypites which digest the food are vermiform double sacs communicating at one end by a valve with the canal in the body of the animal ; and at the free end they are prolonged into a mouth with an everted lip,
SECT. III. PR AY A DIPHYS.
05
and tlie digesting apparatus lies in the centre. Each polypite is supplied with food by its own fishing-line descending from a point close to where the j)olypite is fixed to the long axis. It is a long, tubular, branched tentacle, each branch ending in a coloured, pear-shaped, or fusiform battery of thread- cells with their stings. A gelatinous plate is placed on the upper side of the common axis immediately over the isolated groups, to protect and separate them.
Such are some of the most general characters of the family Diphyidse : the Praya diphys has something pe- culiar to itself.
In the Praya, each individual group has a swimming- bell of its own adjacent to the polypite, and lying paral- lel to the axis of the animal, with its mouth turned backwards. It is connected by tubes both with the general central canal, and with a helmet-shaped protect- ing plate. On the other side of the polypite, there is a tuft of vermiform buds with spiral terminations, bristled with thread- cells. From the centre of this tuft a ten- tacle, or fishing-line, descends with numerous branches, the whole forming a tubular system connected with the common canal in the axis. Each of the branches of the tentacle terminates in a vermilion-coloured tendril, coiled up into a minute capsule. The inside of the tendril is not only bristled with the points of sabre- shaped darts, but it conceals a filament crowded with thread-cells. On the slightest touch, the tendril stretches out like a corkscrew of red coral, and every dart springs forth. Such is, more or less, the compli- cated structure of the ofiensive and defensive weapons of many of this order of oceanic Hydrozoa, which appear to the naked eye as merely brightly-coloured points. The use of these tentacles, or fishing-lines, is the same in all ; they seize, kill, and carry their victims to the mouth of the polypite by contracting their long lines.
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In the Praya, the groups are individualized in the highest degree consistent with union ; for, when the animal is at rest, each of the individual groups, amount- ing to thirty or forty, swims about by means of its little bell independent of the rest. Their motions can be com- pared to nothing but a troop of jugglers performing gymnastic exercises round a cord represented by the common body of the animal ; except for adherence to which the life and will of each group are so perfectly in- dependent, that the mutual dependence of the whole is only seen when the common trunk contracts to bring all its appendages towards the two principal bells, which then begin to move.'^
Thus each group has a special life and motion, con^ trolled by a general life and motion ; strong individual muscular power controlled by general muscular power ; yet no nervous system has as yet been discovered, so this animal activity must for the present be attributed to a strong, inherent, contractile power in the muscular fibre. The Praya is seldom complete, on account of the ease with which it casts off its great bells.
Kone of the Diphyidse have special organs for respira- tion ; their juices are aerated through their delicate tissues. They are dioecious, and invariably produce perfect male and female medusiform zooids ; they are situated among the groups of the polypites and their appendages, and are attached to the axis of the animal. When free, they swim away by the contraction of their bells ; the eggs are fertilized, and produce young Di- phyidse, male and female ; so these animals, like most of the oceanic Hydrozoa, have two alternate stages of existence.
' 'RecTierches sur quelques Animaux inferieurs de la Mediterran^e/ par C. Vogt: Mcmoires de VInstitut National Gencvois, torn. i.
SECT. III. GALEOLARIA LUTEA. 107
PJiysograde Acalephce.
The Graleolaria lutea (fig. 118, frontispiece) is similar to the Praya diphys in having a slender, tubular body, with groups of sterile polypites and their appendages hanging at intervals along its under-side like a fringe, and also in having two swimming-bells at its anterior extremity ; but it has no special small bells. The large ones differ from each other in size, form, and position. The largest is nearly cylindrical, its mouth is turned up- wards, and its rim is elevated at one part into two stiff organs like the blinkers that are put over horses' eyes : besides these, it has six salient points, which nearly close the mouth of the bell at each contraction of the muscular iris that Knes the margin of the cavity. The small bell, which, goes first in swimming, is thicker and shorter, and its side rises in a bump, upon which the closed end of the large bell rests, and in the cavity be- tween the two the anterior extremity of the filiform body is fixed. Each of the groups of polypites, with their tentacles, lies immediately under its spathe-shaped pro- tecting plate. The polypites are very contractile, and on their protuberant part, containing the digestive cavity, there is a large circular space, which, as well as the whole tissue of the polypite and the stinging capsules at the extremities of the tentacles, are of an orange colour, and are akin in structure to those described.
When very young the Galeolaria and its congeners have only their swimming-bells and one polypite group affixed to the end of a short tubular axis ; by and by a second group is developed from buds between the bells and the first group ; then a third is developed between the bells and the second group, and so on ; the length of the body and the number of groups continue to in- crease indefinitely. It is only when the animal is full grown and complete in all its parts, that reproductive
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organs are developed towards its posterior end. Buds then appear upon the hollow stems of the polypites to- wards the posterior end of the body. But as the Galeo- laria is dioecious, male and female buds are never on the same individual. The female buds become medusi- form. zooids, like those of the Praya diphys, only the transparent cup, with which it swims away from its parent, has two projections like ears on its rim.
The development of the buds in the male Galeolaria is similar. At first they are pale, but they assume an orange red colour as they advance towards maturity, and, when complete, the sac which hangs down from the centre of the transparent cup becomes of a brilliant vermilion. These male and female medusa-zooids swim about for several days, and the fertilized eggs are hatched into young Galeolarise, male and female.
Thus the Galeolaria lutea has two kinds of polypites, both nutritive, but one is sterile, the other prolific. The latter are similar to the prolific individuals of the syn- corine Hydrse, in which the anterior part is a digestive organ, while on the base or stalk true medusa-zooids are found. It is curious that the spathe-protecting plate of the Galeolaria appears in the Q^g as a globe of such size that the other parts seem to be merely the appendages.
The Apolemia contorta (fig. 119) unites the most graceful form to the utmost transparency and delicacy of tissue. It has a double float, the first small and glo- bular, the second long and oval. The neck is short, the rose-coloured body is flat as a ribbon, and covered with thin, curved, pointed, and imbricated plates, like tiles on the roof of a house, but so minute that they are only perceptible to the naked eye by a slight iridescence. At the extremity of the short neck buds, semi-developed buds, and perfect swimming cups are arranged in ver- tical series ; and as the flat body is twisted into a spiral to its farthest end, the cluster of bells forms a perfect
Fig. \\^,p. 108.
APOLEMIA CONTORTA.
Fig. \20,p. 109.
PHYSOPHORA HYDROSTATICA.
SECT. III. APOLEMIA CONTORT A. 109
cone with, the float at its apex. The bells are flattened ; and there is always in their more solid j)Osterior part a single canal rising directly from the general trunk which divides into four branches ; and these, having traversed the swimming cavity, unite anew in a circular canal, or iris, destined to shut and open the cup.
The sterile polypites that are attached at intervals by their hollow stems to the twisted body of the Apolemia, have twelve rows of cells inserted in the bright lining of their digestive cavities ; their anterior part has a trumpet- shaped mouth full of thread-cells. The tentacles afiixed to their stems and their secondary lines are like those of the Diphyidse. Besides these sterile polypites, which serve only to feed the animal, the Apolemia has a kind of mouthless prolific organs, which do not contribute to the general nourishment : each group has a pair of them attached to the extremity of a branching stem. They resemble polypites in being long and contractile at their exLremities; the interior is full of a substance like sarcode, and encompassed by a red ring. Female buds yielding eggs appear on the stem of one of these organs, while male buds are developed into medusiform zooids on the stem of the other, which become detached, swim away, and the fertilized eggs yield young Apo- lemise.
The natural position of an individual of the family of the Physophoridse when at rest is to hang perpendicu- larly from its air-vessel. The body, which begins with a pyriform float, descends in a slender filiform scarlet tube with a number of hyaline natatory cups or bells attached on each side. The lower end of the body en- larges into a bulb or disk supporting various appen- dages.
The Physophora hydrostatica (fig. 120), common in the Mediterranean, has a transparent pear-shaped air- vessel tipped with red, from which the slender cord-like
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tube of tlie body descends. Tmmediately below the air- vessel, a number of buds and young bells are attached, followed by a series of perfect three-lobed swimming bells, placed on each side obliquely one below the other ; and as they alternate and embrace the body with their deeply excavated sides, they give it the appearance of a crystal cone. Four canals spring from the hollow stalks of the bells, traverse them, and end in a circular canal close to the membranaceous iris which surrounds the margin of the internal cavity. Below the cone the tubu- lar body expands, and is twisted into a flat spiral, so as to form a hollow disk or bulb, to which three different circlets of organs are appended. The first and uppermost is a coronet of red, worm-like, closed sacs, in constant motion, with large thread-cells at their pointed extre- mities. They are attached to the upper surface of the bulb by their broad bases, and communicate with its tubes by a small valve. Male and female capsules follow either in a circle, or mixed with the third and under- most circlet of organs, which consist of sterile nourish- ing polypites, fixed by hollow stems to the bulb, each of which has a long branching tentacle fixed to the base of its digesting cavity.
There are as many polypites on the under-side of the bulb as there are red worm-like sacs on its upper edge. Each polypite consists of three distinct parts. The posterior part is a hollow red stalk inserted under the circumference of the disk ; the second part is a bright yellow globular expansion containing the digestive cavity lined with cilia ; the third and anterior part, which ends with the mouth, is quite colourless and transparent, and assumes various shapes by constant expansion and contraction.
At the limit between the red stalk and the yellow globular part of the polypites there is a tuft of cylindri- cal appendages, from which a long tentacle descends with its secondary tentacles and red nettle-bulbs. All
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the canals of this Physophora are connected, and their walls are lined with muscular fibres, either circular, longitudinal, or both, which give a marvellous contrac- tile and motive power. When the animal is suspended from the surface of the sea by its float, every member is in motion, especially the numerous tentacles, which are perpetually in search of food, and are so extremely sen- sitive that even a sudden motion of the water makes them shrink under the red worm-like organs on the edge of the disk. This animal is generally from one to three inches long.
All the preceding members of the physograde group are really campanograde, for the action of the wind upon the floats of the Physophoridse must be small, otherwise they would not be furnished with so many swimming cups. The Physaliidse and Velellidse are the only two orders that are truly physograde, for the wind is their only locomotive power.
The Physalia, or ' Spanish man-of-war ' of sailors, is by far the most formidable animal of the Acalephse tribe ; its poisonous stings, which burn like fire, inflict instant death on the inferior animals, and give painful wounds to man himself. Its body, as it floats, is a long hori- zontal double sac (fig. 121), which begins with a blunt point, gradually enlarges, and becomes cylindrical about the middle; then it somewhat suddenly widens in a transverse or lateral direction. Along the upper surface of the pointed half the membrane or wall of the sac is raised into a transversely placed crest, which dies away at the enlarged end. The greater part of the body is smooth, but the under-surface of the transversely en- larged end swells into lobes, from whence numerous tentacles and other organs descend.
Almost the whole of the body of the Physalia is filled by an air-vessel, so that it floats on the surface of the sea, and is wafted to and fro by the wind. The bladder containing the air is enclosed in two membranes, the
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outer one dense, thick, and elastic, the inner formed of delicate fibres and lined with cilia. The air-sac is only attached to one ^Dart of the interior ; and there it com- municates with the exterior by a small aperture, which may be seen at about half an inch from the pointed apex of the animal. The body is several inches long, of a
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Fig. 121. The Physalia.
delicate pale green colour, passing gradually into dark indigo blue on the under-surface ; the ridge of the crest is tipped with dark crimson, and the j^ointed end is stained with deep bluish green.
The appendages, which hang down from the inferior and thick part of the body, are large and small branch-
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less tentacles of various lengths, and sterile poljpites in different stages of development. In some individuals the tentacles are nine or ten feet long, of a deep blue colour at their origin, and formed of two distinct parts, which have a common base. One is a long conical bag, formed bj an extension of the under-surface of the body lined with cilia, and ending in a pointed apex full of stinging thread-cells. It is flat on one side, attached throughout its length to the tentacle, and is supposed to furnish poison for the stings. The tentacle itself is a closed tube whose canal communicates with the cavity of the long sac, and consequently with that in the ani- mal's body. The interior of the tentacle is ciliated, its upper part is gathered into folds ; and the rest, which hangs straight down, is like a delicate narrow ribbon, highly contractile from muscular fibres, of which the most conspicuous are longitudinal. The tentacle is marked at regular intervals by blue kidney-shaped masses, containing myriads of powerful thread-cells, in which the threads of the darts are coiled in a spiral, and contain muscular fibres, that serve to contract and extend them. The smaller tentacles vary as much in length as the large ones ; they are of similar struc- ture, but of a paler colour, and are indiscriminately mixed with the other appendages.
The polypites, which are direct processes from the under-surface of the body, are crowded in groups of various sizes round the base of the large tentacles and mixed with the small ; they are of a deep blue at their base, frequently of a bright yellow at their extremities, and on an average about three-fourths of an inch long. They are as irritable and contractile as the tentacles, and are in constant motion. Their mouth is large, with an everted lip armed with thread-cells ; it sucks in the prey caught and brought to it by the contraction of the
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tentacles, and whicli is speedily dissolved by the power- ful solvent juices in its digesting chamber.
Among the numerous appendages attached to the under-surface of the Physalia, there are bluish-green velvety masses fixed to extremely small branching pro- cesses from the body of the animal, which seem with a microscope to consist of tentacles, polypites in various stages of development, male reproductive capsules which are never detached, and female buds that are developed into medusiform zooids, and are presumed to become free as in other cases. The Physaliidse are social animals, assembling in numerous shoals in the warm latitudes of the Atlantic and Pacific. They naturally have their crest vertical, kept steady by their tentacles, which drag- down in the water ; but Professor Huxley has seen them at play, in a dead calm, tumbling over and over. The Physalia does not possess the power of emptying and re- filling its float with air : it is doubted whether any of the physograde animals have that power, but the subject is still in abeyance.
The Velellidse are little sailing members of the physo- grade group. The Velella spirans (fig. 122), a Mediter- ranean species, has a body or deck consisting of a hollow horizontal disk, of a firm but flexible cartilaginous sub- stance, surrounded by a delicate membranous fringe or limb half the width of the body. A triangular vertical crest, formed of a firm transparent plate, also encom- passed by a delicate limb, is fixed diagonally from one angle of the disk to the other, but not on the fringe ; and as the natural position of the Yelella is to float horizontally on the surface of the water, the crest is exposed to the wind and acts as a sail.
The float or air-vessel is flat, horizontal, and nearly fills the whole body of the animal : it consists of two thin, firm, and rather concave plates joined at their free edges, and united also by a number of concentric vertical par-
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titions, between which there is a series of concentric chambers or galleries filled with air. The chambers communicate with one another by apertures in the dividing membrane ; thej also communicate with the ex- terior by perforations through the surface of the body. Very long pneumatic filaments, that is tubes filled with air, descend from the inferior surface of the float, and pass through the lower plate of the disk into the water. The disk is transparent, and appears to be white from the air within it ; and it is marked by concentric rings
Fig. 122. Velella spirans :— 1, upper side ; 2, under-side.
corresponding to the divisions in the air-vessel below. The fringe-like limb that surrounds it is flat, flexible, semi-transparent, and of the richest dark blue passing into green, with a light blue ring ; it is very contractile, and moves in slow undulations. The sail or crest is thin, firm, and transparent, covered by a bluish mem- brane ; its limb is dark blue, crossed by waving yellow lines.
An irregular microscopic network of vascular canals, containing yellow matter, is seen in the soft substance which covers the sail; it ends in a canal round its
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margin. A similar system exists both in tlie upper and under- surface of the disk. All these systems are connected with one another, and with organs pending from the inferior side of the disk, which are hid when the Velella is in its natural horizontal position. These organs consist of a large central sterile polypite, which supplies the whole system with elaborated juices ; it is surrounded by smaller polypites, which are both nutri- tive and reproductive ; and the whole is encircled with a ring of prehensile and armed tentacles fastened to the rim of the disk, immediately adjoining to the under- side of the limb. The pneumatic filaments already men- tioned are mixed with these different organs.
In the Yelellidse caught by M. Yogt, he invariably found the stomachs of the large as well as of the small polypites, fall of the carapaces of minute Crustacea, shells, the bones of small fishes, and larvse, so as even to be swelled out with them. The indigestible parts are thrown out at the mouth, and the elaborated juices are transferred to the various systems of canals to be dis- tributed through all the members of the animal. The mouths of the small polypites take various forms; some- times they are wide and trumpet-shaped, with everted lips, sometimes they are contracted. These small poly- pites consist of a double sac, fastened to the disk by a hollow stem with many rounded elevations on their sur- face full of thread-cells. The tentacles of the Velellidse are strong, thick, club-shaped tubes, completely closed at their extremities, which abound in thread-cells ; their cavity is filled with a transparent liquid, supposed to play an important part in their elongation.
Medusiform zooids are formed on the slender stems of the small polypites. It is presumed that they lay fer- tilized eggs which yield Velellidse, so that this animal has probably alternate states of existence ; but nothing- is known of its earliest stages of development. The
SECT. III. THE PORPITA. 1 1 7
youngest form yet discovered is that described by Prof. Huxley, in his excellent monograph, on ' Oceanic Hy- drozoa.'^ The Velellidse are inhabitants of warm and tropical seas, but are occasionally found on the coasts of Great Britain, being carried by the Gulf Stream to the Bay of Biscay, and thence wafted northwards by the prevalent winds.
Although the Porpita, a genus of the Yelellidse, has no sail, it is akin to the Velellse in size and structure. The body of the Porpita consists of two circular cartilaginous disks, united at theu' edges and surrounded by a blue membranous limb. On the surface of the upper disk there are beautifully radiating striae, each of which ends at the circumference of the disk in a little protuberance, which gives it the appearance of a toothed wheel. A large sterile poiypite occupies the centre of the under- surface of the body, surrounded by a zone full of smaller ones ; and the space between the zone and the blue limb is occupied by a narrow area of a reticulated appearance, to which numerous circles of tentacles are fixed, that spread out and radiate all around the margin of the animal. The interior circular rows are simple, short, and fleshy, not extending much beyond the edge of the limb : the succeeding circles are gra- dually longer, while the exterior row, which extends far beyond the limb, are branched and beset with slender filaments, ending in minute globes, sometimes filled vdth. air, so that a Porpita is like a floating daisy, though differently coloured. The Porpita glandifera, a pretty little inhabitant of the Mediterranean, which only appears in calm weather, is not more than eight lines in diameter ; somewhat convex, white, marked by radiating striae, and encompassed by a dark blue limb. The central poiypite and those next to it are whitish,
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the rest become of a darker blue towards the limb ; the tentacles are pellucid and bluish, and the three last rows have little dark blue globes attached to them by slender filaments.
The Porpita has a horizontal air-vessel divided ver- tically into air-chambers like the Velella, but they are much more numerous. In a middle-sized Porpita, four or five lines in diameter, there are twenty-three or twenty- four air-chambers surrounding a central one, and eighty or ninety pneumatic filaments, so that the animal is ex- tremely buoyant. Brown matter, supposed to be a liver, lies directly below the undermost wall of the air-vessel, through which, as well as through the base of the ani- mal, all the pneumatic filaments penetrate ; the greater number go straight down into the water, but a portion of them terminate in the walls of the polypites.
A complete system of canals, ciliated internally, tra- verses all parts of the animal ; and it may be presumed that the cilia maintain its juices in. a state of circulation similar to that in the Yelella ; and the functions of the polypites, great and small, that are in connection with the liver, are also similar to those of the Velella. The Porpita is armed with thread-cells like all the class. The central polypite is sterile and nutritive ; the small ones are both nutritive and reproductive : buds spring from their stems, which become independent male and female medusiform zooids, swim away from their parent and produce abundance of eggs, whence a new genera- tion of Porpitse arise.
In this singular class of fresh -water and oceanic Hy- drozoa, the internal cilia, aided by the contraction of the walls of the body, are the sole means provided by nature for the circulation of the fluids.
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SECTION lY.
ANTHOZOA ZOOPHYTES.
The life-history of the oceanic H jdrozoa, which may be regarded as one of the triumphs of microscopic science, wonld have been incomplete had it been separated from that of the Pulmograde Acalephse and the Physograde groups : but the most important part of that numerous race of animals are the Anthozoa zoophytes, which in- clude the builders of the coral reefs and atolls of the Indian and Chinese seas. The coral polypes, though feeble and inconspicuous individually, when united in large communities acquire a power which enables them to build the most stupendous structures in the midst of a tempestuous ocean.
The Anthozoa zoophytes, or living flowers, form two extensive groups — the Asteroids, or Alcyonian zoophytes, whose polypes have six or eight hollow prehensile ten- tacles radiating round their mouth like a star or the petals of a single blossom, and the Actinian or Helian- thoid zoophytes, which have ten, twelve, or more hollow tentacles encircling their mouth in several rows, like the blossom of a double sun-flower.
Alcyon Zoophytes,
The Alcyon zoophytes comprise the Alcyons, Gorgons, and Pennatulidse, or sea-pens. The polypes are of the same form in all, and are united by a fleshy or horny
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Fig. 123. Alcyonian polypes highly magnified.
substance into large communities, so connected and mutually dependent as to constitute one compound
animal. Figure 123 represents a highly magnified group of Alcyo- nian polypes in different stages of expansion. The body of the polype is soft, contrac- tile, and composed of thin, delicate transparent tis- sues. It has the form of a cone resting upon its base, which is generally of a firm material. Its upper extremity presents a central orifice, which serves both ;^ for a mouth and vent, and
'T is encompassed by six or
eight broad, short, hollow tentacles, enlarged towards ^y their base so as to meet, and their edges are seen with a lens only to be fringed with minute hollow tubes or pinnse closed at their free end.
The narrow slit of the mouth opens into the sto- mach, which is a flat, short sac hanging down in the central cavity of the polype's body, with an orifice at its lower end. The stomach is fixed to the internal walls of the body by eight vertical
Pig. 124, Polype of Alc^onidium
SECT. IV.
ALCYON ZOOPHYTES.
121
folds forming' so many longitudinal chambers open at their lower extremity. The whole of the surface of the interior, the walls, the stomach, and the septa or divi- sions, are covered with fine cilia, by whose vibrations constant currents are maintained in the water which bathes every part of the cavity freely entering at the mouth. The polypes are carnivorous, living upon infu- soria and minute particles of animal matter floating on the water, which they seize with their mouth, or arrest with their flexible and contractile tentacles. The food is digested by the solvent juices in the stomach, and the refuse is ejected at the mouth.
The eggs of these polypes are formed and fertilized among the vertical folds adjacent to the stomach. When hatched, the larvse pass through the stomach and come out at the mouth as active ciliated creatures, so like eggs that the Alcyon zoophytes were believed to be oviparous. However, in some of the genera they are discharged through pores between the bases of the tentacles.
The Alcyon polypes have multitudes of needle-like spicules, rough with projecting knots. They are col- lected into triangular groups at the foot of each ten- tacle ; the cen- tral and largest point runs up into the tentacle. Towards the lower end of the polype, spicules again occur scat- tered through the skin and crowded into groups, as in fig. 125. These, however, form short thick cylinders, each end being dilated into a star of five or six short branches. The spicules always contain an organic base hardened by
Fig. 125. Spicula of Alcyonimn digitatum.
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carbonate of lime, for when Dr. Carpenter dissolved the lime with dilute acid, a gelatinous substance remained, which had the form of the spicules. Fig. 125 shows those of the Alcyonium digitatum, or Dead Man's Fin- gers, generally assumed as the type of this numerous order, which contains sixteen genera and many species, differing much in form but connected by a similarity of digitate structure.
The Alcyonium digitatum, when torn from the rock to which these animals are attached, shrinks into a cream- coloured fleshy mass of somewhat solid texture, rough and hard to the touch, and studded all over with hol- low depressions or pits. When put into sea- water, these lumps, from the size of a pea and upwards, expand, become semi-transparent, and from each depression a polype protrudes its beautifully symmetrical eight- petalled blossom. Their tentacles are short, broad, and prehensile ; and the slender pinnae, which fringe their edges arching outwards, are seen with a high magnifying power to be rough with prickly rings, discovered by Mr. Gosse to be accumulations of . thread-cells with their darts.
These Alcyons, when expanded, are about an inch- and-a-half high and two-thirds of an inch thick, but individuals are met with two or three times as large, and much divided into blunt finger-like lobes. The sarcode mass of these compound animals is channelled like a sponge, by branching canals, the orifices of which open into the stomachs of the polypes; and, by bringing them into communication with each other, unite the whole into one compound animal, which is maintained by the food caught and digested by each individual polype. Currents of sea-water mixed with the nutri- tious juices are made to circulate through the branching canals by the vibrations of cilia with which they are lined ; they flow round the stomachs of the polypes,
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supply their juices with oxygen, and carry off the car- bonic acid gas and refuse of the food. In this case, as in many others, the cilia may be regarded as respiratory organs.
The unarmed Alcyons are generally thick, short, and rough ; some form a crust on rocks from whence lobes rise. With the exception of the Xenia, a tropical species, the polypes of the unarmed Alcyons can retreat within their polypary, so as to be entirely or partially out of sight.
The polypary, or mass, of the armed Alcyons is either membranous or leathery, and is entirely bristled with large spicules similar to the very small ones in the tentacles of its polypes. It forms branching masses terminated by prominent tubercules thickly beset by spicules. The polypes, retreat into the mass when they are in a state of contraction.
The Gorgons, which form the second family of Al- cyonian zoophytes, are compound animals, consisting of a solid stem or axis either simple or branched, adher- ing by its base to a rock or some submarine body, and coated by a layer of a softer fleshy or horny substance exactly in the same manner as the bark covers the stem and branches of a tree. This bark or fleshy substance is filled with polypes similar to those described; however, they are shorter, their base is a little enlarged, and is turned towards the axis of the stem and branches of the Gorgon. The softer substance or bark is much de- veloped between the polypes, and is full of spicules, of forms varying with the genera. A system of almost capillary canals traverses the soft coating and opens into the lower part of the cavity containing the viscera of the different individuals, thus affording a passage for the circulation of the nutritive juices.
The larvse of the Gorgons are like ciliated eggs ; they swim with their thick end foremost, and are perfectly soft.
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That state, however, is transitory ; for no sooner do they lose their cilia and settle on a submarine substance than their lower part becomes hard, forms a solid layer on the substance, and constitutes the base for a Gorgon's stem. A small elevation rises on it, and at the same time the upper part of the larva assumes a fleshy consist- ence and surrounds the elevation. These two grow simultaneously ; the small elevation rises higher and higher, and its coat containing the polypes grows pro- portionally with it, and continues to cover it whatever form it may take, whether a branching or plumage stem, or a simple slender rod. The stem and branches are increased in thickness by successive concentric layers of horny or calcareous matter between their sur- face and the soft bark.
The Gorgoniidse are divided into three natural groups, the Gorgon s, Isidse, and Corallines, according to the nature of their axis. The two first agree in having stems either of a substance like cork or horn entirely or partly flexible ; but the stem of the Gorgons has no joints, while that of the Isidinse is jointed. The stem of the Corallines has no joints, and is entirely stony and branching.
The Gorgonia verrucosa, so common in the Mediter- ranean, British Channel, and the intermediate seas, is like a small shrub a foot high, with numerous branches : the cup-shaped tubercules inhabited by the polypes are irregularly distributed, and not very salient, yet enough to give the white encrusting coat a rough warty surface. In this Gorgon there is an ovary at the base of each polype : the eggs are discharged through eight small pores placed between the bases of the eight tentacles. These animals are wonderfully prolific : a Gorgon, six inches high, produced ninety eggs in one hour.
The Gorgonia graminea, found on the coast of Al- giers, instead of being arborescent, is thin and cylin-
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drical throughout its whole length. The covering is white, and nearly smooth; the cups containing the polypes either have no salient border, or are deeply sunk in the coat.
The Gorgons known as sea-fans live in warm seas, and are of numerous species. Not only all their branches, but all their branchlets and twigs, spread in the flat form of a fan, are soldered together so as to form a net with open meshes ; the coating is thin, and the polypes are placed bilaterally.
The stems and branches of the Isidse, which form the third group of Gorgoniidse, are composed of a series of calcareous cylinders, separated by either horny or cork-like nodes ; the polypes are only born in the bark of the former. In the genus Isis the calcareous cylinders are deeply striated by straight or wavy lines. This race of animals are mostly inhabitants of warm seas ; but they once lived in a colder climate. Some species of them are pi^eserved in a fossil state in the cretaceous earth in Belgium, and in the plastic clay near London.
There is but one genus of the Coralline Gorgon, and the type of that is the common red ornamental coral of commerce found in the Mediterranean Sea only. Dr. Carpenter has discovered that the solid calcareous stem of the Corallium rubrum is made up of aggregations of spicules closely resembling those of the other Alcyonian zoophytes, but of an intense red, sometimes rose colour or whitish. The stem and branches are delicately striated along their length, and covered with a soft substance of the same colour as the stem, into which the polypes retreat when alarmed ; but when fishing for food, with their eight white tentacles expanded, the red stem and branches appear as if they were studded with stars. Prof, de Lacaze Duthiers, who was appointed by the French Government to investigate the natural history of the red coral with a view to the regulation of the fishery at
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Fig. 126. Red Coral Branch.
Algiers, found that the individual polypes are either male or female, but that the males and females are on diiferent branches of the same coral, one branch being
almost exclusively the abode of male pol3rpes, and another of female. The eggs are fer- tilized by the intervention of the water. After an ^g'g is fertilized, it is transferred to the stomach of the female, vrhich thus serves both for digestion, incubation, and transformations of the ^g'g. At first the ^^g is naked and spherical ; afterwards it be- comes elongated and covered with cilia. A cavity is formed in it, which opens externally, and finally becomes the mouth ; it then acquires the form of a little white worm, and when it comes into the water it is very active, swimming in all directions, avoiding its comrades when they meet, rising and de- scending in the water with its hinder end foremost. It loses its cilia after a time, fixes itself to a rock, and acquires the form of its parent in the manner described as to other Gorgons.
The red coral generally grows on the under-side of ledges or rocks, in a pendent position, and at consider- able depths. It is not found at 15 or 20 fathoms ; they only begin to fish for it at from 30 to 60 fathoms ; and it is brought up from even 100 or 120, while the strong reef-building corals cannot exist below 25, or at most 30 fathoms ; being immensely superior in vigour, these require a greater supply of air, light, and heat. The red coral is generally fished for along the coasts of Algiers and Tunis; it is also found in the seas round
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GORGONIIBJE.
127
Sicily and Sardinia, and in the Grecian Archipelago. The red coral is always irregularly branched. The
Fig. 127, Eed Coral (greatly magnified), from ' Histoire Natiirelle du Corail,' par M. Lacaze Duthiers.
branches are sometimes white, supposed to be from dis- ease ; the white coral of commerce is a species of Caryo- phyllia, an Actinian, and not an Alcyon, zoophyte.
The Corallium Johnstoni, a native of the Atlantic, has a white axis, with branches spreading flatly and horizontally like a fan from the rock to which it is attached; it is entirely covered with a yellowish flesh, but the polypes only inhabit the upper surface, as if they could not live in shade. The Corallium secundum, a similar zoophyte, was discovered by Professor Dana near the Sandwich Islands, with a white or rose-coloured fan-
1 2 8 PENNA TULID^. part hi.
shaped stem and brandies, covered bj a scarlet coat, having the polypes also only on the upper surface.
The Pennatulidse, or sea-pens, which are the third family of the Alcyon zoophytes, bear a great resemblance to a goose's feather. The genus Pennatula has a flatly- feathered, upright, calcareous axis, the bare part of which is analogous to the quill ; but, instead of being fixed like the stem of a Gorgon, it is merely stuck into sand or mud at the bottom of the seas, while the upper feathered part, containing the polypes, remains in the water. The axis decreases in thickness upwards, and the pinnules, which diverge from it transversely like wings, are angular, thin, membranaceous, and strength- ened by spicules. The whole animal is covered with a soft fleshy tissue ; the polypes, which have eight pin- nated tentacles, are arranged in a single row along the edges of the pinnules, with their visceral extremities prolonged into the soft tissue, so as to give it a tubular structure, through which the nourishing juice prepared by the polypes is carried for the maintenance of the general envelope, the refuse being thrown out at their mouths. When the sea-pens leave the mud or sand, they do not swim actively with their pinnules, but move languidly at the bottom. The Pennatulse are phospho- rescent ; they are of a dull reddish brown during the day, but at night they shine with the most brilliant iridescence. In the tropical seas they occasionally exceed a foot in length; in the cool latitudes they are not more than five or six inches. The Pennatula phos- phorea, found on the British coasts, has a hollow axis, occupied by a well-developed stylet ; long pinnulse sym- metrically disposed on each side of the middle and upper part of the axis ; the polypes, which are very contrac- tile, are arranged transversely on their upper and an- terior edges ; the pinnae of the wings are scythe-shaped, and furnished with a vast number of sharp spicules,
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and these combine in bundles at the base of the cells, in which the polypes live. The back of the pen, lying between the feathery wings, is sometimes smooth, some- times crowded with scales, arising from the development of the spicules with which it is filled. The eggs of this animal are yellow, and have the size and form of poppy seeds. They are developed into ciliated larvae within the polypes, w^hich come out at their mouths, and swim away ; but their activity is much diminished when they have acquired their mature form. These Pennatulse in- crease also by a kind of budding. There are species of phosphorescent sea-pens in all the European seas and Indian Ocean.
The Virgularise are sea-pens which have long slender stems, with short transverse pinnules, on both sides of their extremity : they have no spicules, and are remark- able for the contractile power both of their axis and l^olypes. Mr. Darwin mentions a species he met with during his voyage in the Southern Ocean, which seems to be akin to the Virgularia juncea common in the Indian Seas. They were long and slender, projecting in vast numbers like s^ ubble above the surface of muddy sand. When touched or pulled, they suddenly shrunk down with such force as to disappear partly or altogether. Sensitive as these animals are, they have no nerves ; hence their motions must be owing to the irritable nature of muscular fibre. The eggs of the Virgularia mirabilis, native on the Scotch and Norwegian coasts, are formed in the fleshy coat at the base of each polype. As soon as they acquire their yellow colour and ciliated surface they enter into its body, and revolve in it for a little time before they come out at its mouth.
The family of the Tubipora, inhabitants of warm seas, are the most beautiful of the Alcyons. They consist of rounded masses of considerable size, formed of fragile, hollow, and nearly parallel calcareous tubes. The tubes
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do not toucli one another, but they are united at inter- vals by horizontal plates, formed of an extension of their bases, dividing their mass into stages. In the
Tubipora niusica, a native of the Indian Ocean, there are several superincumbent series of equal and parallel tubes, exactly like the pipes of an organ. The whole compound fragile mass is of the richest crimson, and the pol3^pes spread their white tentacles like stars over the nioaths of the uppermost pipes, or retreat into them. Buds spring from the upper part of the tubes, and the result is the death of the parents, which are succeeded by a young living race a stage above them. The Tubi- pora purpurea lives in the Mediterranean and Eed Seas. The polypes of a species found by Professor Dana, at the Teejee Islands, have their centre and mouth of a brownish red, and their tentacles yellow, edged by a double fringe of violet-coloured pinnules.
Pig. 128. Tubipora rnusica.
Actinian Zoophytes.
The great family of the Actinian zoophytes abounds in genera and species. The common Sea Anemone, or Actinia, of which there are more than seventy species on the British coasts, is the model of the minute poljrpes which inhabit the stony corals, and build the coral reefs and atolls of the tropical Pacific.
The Sea Anemone has a cylindrical body, attached at one end by a sucker to rocks or stones at no great depth, and a flat circular disk at the other, with the mouth in its centre : the mouth, which is surrounded by a series of tubular, smooth-edged, radiating tentacles, re-
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ACTINIA.
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Fig. 129. Actinian polype.
sembles a blossom. The soft smooth body consists of two layers, as may be seen in the sections of an Actinia (fig. 129). The outer layer generally contains red matter, the inner one is of muscular fibre, and contains a great cavity, in which a somewhat globular bag or stomach is sus- pended. The space between the sto- mach and the cylindrical body of the animal is divided into cham- bers by perpen- dicular radiating partitions, consisting of thin plates or lamellse. The mouth, which opens at once into the stomach, imbibes sea-water ; and the hollow tentacles surrounding it being perforated at their extremities, and in communi- cation with the chambers immediately below them, also imbibe the sea-water and convey it into the chambers ; and the vibrations of the innumerable cilia, with which all the cavities of the animal are lined, keep them per- petually bathed with the respiratory medium mixed with nutrient juices from the coats of the stomach.^
The Sea Anemone is monoecious and oviparous ; the eggs are formed and fertilized in the lower parts of the perpendicular lamellse or radiant plates ; but they are hatched within the visceral cavity, and the larvse issue from the mouth. The Actiniae are also propagated by buds. They have as great a power of repairing injuries as the Hydrse, and like them too, though generally fixed,
^ ' Lectures on Comparative Anatomy,' by Professor Owen. K 2
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tliey can creep about by means of their expanded suctorial disk, and even float on the surface of the water. In many species the tentacles, as well as the body, are brightly coloured. The Actinia sulcata, an inhabitant of the British Channel, is of a deep crimson, with from 100 to 200 grass-green tentacles. The tints are owing to coloured particles in minute globules, that lie under the transparent skin of the animal and its tentacles.
With the exception of some of the Acalephse, the thread-cells of the Sea Anemone are more highly deve- loped than in any other animals. They not only differ in the various Actinian zoophytes, but sometimes even in the same individual. The complicated structure and action of this warlike apparatus was unsuspected pre- vious to the microscopic observations of Mr. Gosse on the A.ctini8e in general, and especially on the little scarlet fringed Sagartia miniata, a native of the British coasts. Like all the Anemones, it is highly sensitive ; on the slightest touch it draws in its scarlet blossom, and shrinks into the form of a hemispherical bulb. While in the act of contracting, white filaments like ribbons shoot out from various parts of its surface, and new ones appear on every fresh eifort, streaming out to the length of several inches, irregularly twisted and tangled. As soon as the contraction is finished, these fine white fila- ments begin to be recalled, and gradually retire in small irregular coils into the interior chambers between the stomach and the wall of the body, where they are stored up when not in activity.
Each filament makes its egress and ingress through an almost imperceptible transverse slit, discovered by Mr. Gosse, in the middle of an oval depression in the wall of the animal's body. The slits, which are called cinclides, are very numerous, and resemble a pair of in- verted eyelids, which can be opened and shut at plea- sure. W^hen the animal is irritated it contracts, and the
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water which fills the perpendicular chambers is forced in a stream through the slits, and carries with it the white filaments lodged within them ; and then these quivers, which are full of deadly weapons, are ready for action.
Under the microscope, the white filaments are like narrow flat ribbons with their edges curled in, and thickly covered with cilia. They have not the slightest trace of muscular fibre, even when viewed with a mi- croscopic power of 800 diameters ; yet they extend, contract, bend, and coil in every direction; they bring together the margins of the ribbon so as to form a tube, and open them again ; and the filaments perform all these motions even when severed from the animal, no doubt by the contractile nature of the clear jelly or sarcode, of which their bases are composed, as in the tentacles of the Acalephae.
Innumerable oblong dart or stinging-nettle cells, closely packed together, lie under the folded edges of the ribbons, throughout their whole length, especially at their tips.^
The polypes of the stony corals, though extremely small, are essentially the same in structure as the Sea Anemone, but they have no sucker at their base. The Sea Anemone is of soft tissue throughout its whole body. In the polypes of the madrepore corals, on the contrary, the whole of the perpendicular lamellae which divide the interior of the body into chambers become hard, from being consolidated by particles of carbonate of lime; and their upper edges, which appear as rays round the mouth of the animal, give that starry appearance to the surface of dead madrej^ores after the soft part of the polypes has been destroyed.
Most of the coral polypes are unarmed; but in some, as, for example, the Caryophyllia Smithii, there are multi- tudes of dart-cells in the tentacles, besides numerous
' ' Evenings at tlie Microscope,' by P. H. Gosse, E:?q.
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pellucid filaments or ribbons, full of thread-cells, lying in coils within the chambers which sun^ound the sto- mach.
We are indebted to Mrs. Thynne's interesting obser- vations on the Caryophyllia Smithii in her aquarium for the life -history of the animals armed with this for- midable artillery. This madrepore, which inhabits many parts of the Euroj)ean seas, at various depths, is a species of the only lamelliform genus of corals which range beyond the tropics. It is a solitary individual polype, with an external calcareous cylindrical coat, wider at the base, when it is fixed to a rock; and the mouth, which has several rows of tentacles, is in the centre of the disk of the cylinder. The tentacles are delicate, trans- parent, granular tubes, about an inch long, tapering to their extremities, and ending in an opaque white knob full of chambered thread-cells with their darts ; but the thread-cells are of a larger size in the ribbons coiled in the chambers round the stomach of the animal. These madrepores are described by Mrs. Thynne as of various tints, from a pure white to a bright apricot colour. At intervals they eject from the mouth a whitish blue fluid, resembling wood smoke, in a stream three or four inches long, sometimes containing a few eggs. But the eggs, though no doubt formed at the base of the lamellae, be- come densely packed like fine dust in the hollows of the tentacles, from whence they are expelled by contractions, and escape by the mouth. The eggs lie quiet for a few days in the place where they are deposited : by and by they begin to rotate, slowly at first, then more rapidly, and finally they are developed into most minute madre- pores, with the star and colour of the parent. In a few months they become as large as a crown piece, with a very wide mouth and a membranous integument or covering, for they do not get their hard calcareous coat till they are two years old. While in that soft state they propagate by spontaneous division, which always
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beg-ins at tlie mouth, and is repeated every few weeks during the second year of their lives. When they split into segments, the broken ends of each segment bend round and unite ; and the mouth, which at first is on one side, being a portion of the old one, comes to the centre of the disc, and in addition to the few old tentacles that remain, new ones are added, with their interior cham- bers, till they amount to five rows, and in this m.anner a brood of young Caryophyllise is formed.
During the second year of their soft state, these ma- drepores increase by budding. The buds spring from the base of the membranous covering, they expand, get a mouth and tentacles, aid in feeding themselves by greedily taking any small particles of animal food of- fered to them, and seem also to share in the sustenance provided by the mother, as they dilate when she is fed ; ultimately they separate from her. These madrepores have patches of a milk-white fiuid substance, which unite and almost cover the space between the mouths and the rows of tentacles : in others of the madrepore tribe these patches are purple.
green, yellow, or ul- tramarine blue. The Caryophyllise have locomotion while their skin is soft, but no activity ; they merely avoid obstacles, and move away from one an- other; but, as soon as they get their hard calcareous
coat, they become j)ei^iiia,nently fixed, and no longer undergo division or gemmation, but lay eggs.^
2 £ Observations on tlip, Caryophyllia Smithii,' by Mrs. Thynne, in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History.
Fig. 130. Lobophylla angulcsa.
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The European Caryophyllise never have more than one star, but sometimes a great man}^ individuals are united in a spreading bunch, as in the madrepore Lobophylla angulosa (fig. 130), or in a branched or tufted mass. Their exterior is invariably striated, and each terminates in a star, with the polypes, mouth and tentacles in its centre. These compound madrepores are inhabitants of warm seas.
The number of tentacles possessed by the Actinian polype varies with the species of the coral. When full grown they have twelve, twenty-four, even forty-eight, or more. When young, they have only four or six, but in general the number increases rapidly as they advance in age. The perpendicular hard lamellae, which divide the cavity round the stomach of the polype into perpen- dicular chambers, as in fig. 129, and form stars round the mouth, consist of thin sheets or plates, either applied or soldered together ; and for every new tentacle that is produced at the mouth, a corresponding new chamber is formed immediately below it, between the sheets or leaves of the lamellae ; so that the number of chambers and perpendicular plates is always equal to the number of tentacles, and so the circulation of the fluids is main- tained. Since the upper edges of the lamellae form the rays of the stars round the mouth of the polype, it is clear that the number of rays in a star must always be equal to the number of lamellae. The new tentacles are always produced exterior to and between the adjacent old ones, so as to form an outer circle, and consequently a new circle of rays will be added to the star round the mouth exterior to the old ones. There may be two, three, or more concentric circles of tentacles round the month of the polype, the last being the shortest. However, some polypes never have more than twelve tentacles during the whole course of their lives. The first formed rays of a star are generally, though not always, the longest and
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most prominent ; and sometimes the edges of the lamellse rise high above the hollow or cup which is the centre of the star, and contains the month of the polype. In some families of corals these edges, which form the rays, are toothed or spined.^
A horny column in the axis of the polype, hardened by sulphate and carbonate of lime, and called the columella, generally shows its top in the centre of the star, and varies in structure in the different genera. Thus the Actinian polypes may be said to possess an internal skeleton, and as they approach maturity they also acquire an external one in the form of a cylindrical coat, or stony wall, which surrounds them, and into which most of them can withdraw the soft upper ]3art of theii bodies and tentacles, so as to be partly or altogether con- cealed. The perpendicular lamellae are sometimes ex- tended through the stony walls of the polype, so as to form a series of broad, well-developed ribs on its exterior surface.
The stony substance of corals is chiefly carbonate of lime, which the polypes have the power of abstractijig from the sea-water, combined with a small quantity of animal matter, and a still smaller quantity of phosphate of lime, with a trace of silver and magnesia. This stony substance takes the crystalline form of needles. By the successive deposition of these needles, a network is formed round the body of the animal, which by a series of these deposits is condensed into a hard impervious coat or wall. During this formative process many cha- racteristic forms may be produced by division and build- ing, depending upon the genus and species of the polype ; but they do not lay eggs till they come to maturity.
Some corals increase both by budding and division, but by far the greater number grow in size by budding,
^ ' Histoire des Corallines,' par Professeur Milne-EcUvards,
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as the AstrEea, which constitutes a j^ortion of the reef- building* corals of the tropical seas. They form groups, in which the whole of the polypes, except their starry summits, are soldered or pasted together by a living- viscous substance, consolidated by carbonate of lime, abstracted from the sea-water, so that the resulting coral frequently becomes a rounded mass, the surface of which is more or less covered with stars, which may be circular or a,ngular, large or small, deeply set or promi- nent, according to the genera or species, both of which are exceedingly numerous. In fact the forms produced vary according as the buds spring from the base of the polypes, from the sides of the cylindrical body, from the summit or disk, from the limits of these three parts, or from the whole animal. In all these varieties the buds are the result of a superabundance of vital activity in the part. When the buds proceed from the sides of the polypes the corals are rounded masses ; but when they spring from the disk or cups of the star, the consequence is the death of the parent polypes, and the development of a new layer of living individuals above the dead ones. No part of the new polypes is seen except their stars, their bodies being enclosed in the common tissue. As this process may be continued indefinitely, the coral may increase to any size ; but the size becomes still greater when successive buds are formed over every part of the j)olypes, and when all the successive generations are soldered together by the common tissue. In every case the polypes are alive only on the surface where they have free access to light, heat, and air, which is furnished by the sea-water in which they live."*
In the reef-building corals the living viscous substance that covers the surface and connects the polypes into a mass, is in process of time so completely consolidated by
* ' Histoire cles Corallinos,' par Professeur Milne-Edwards.
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abstracting the small quantity of carbonate of lime that the sea-water contains, that little if any animal matter remains ; and as this process is continually repeated, one generation of polypes perishes after another, the inert matter increases indefinitely, and the surface at which the consolidation is actually going on is the only part that is alive.
The surfaces of the dense convex masses of many of these Astrsean corals are entirely covered with deep hex- agonal stars, whose rays extend upwards all round, and end in narrow, sharp, and elevated lines formed by the junction of the rays of the adjacent stars ; in other species the rays are often crowded together, and the columella only shows a few points in the deep hollows. Through these deep cups the polypes protrude their circular disks and tentacles in quest of food, the nutri- tious products of which maintain the polypes as well as the general living fabric which unites them, and the refuse is ejected from their mouths ; for each polype has an inde]3endent life of its own besides the incidental life that it possesses as part of a compound being. In many of the corals the polypes show great sensibility, shrink- ing into their cells on the slightest touch, yet no ner- vous system has been discovered.
The variety of compact and branching corals far ex- ceeds description : 120 species are inhabitants of the Red Sea alone, and an enormous area of the tropical Pacific is everywhere crowded with the stupendous works of these minute agents, destined to change the present geological features of the globe, as their predecessors have done in the remote ages of its existence.
Four distinctly different formations are due to the coral-building polypes in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, namely, lagoon islands or atolls, encircling reefs, barrier reefs, and coral fringes, all nearly confined to the torrid zone.
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An atoll is a ring or chaplet of coral, enclosing a lagoon or portion of the ocean in its centre. The average breadth of that part of the ring which rises above the surface of the sea is about a quarter of a mile, often less, and it is seldom more than from six to ten or twelve feet above the waves : hence the lagoon islands are not visible even at a very small distance, unless when they are covered by the cocoa-nut palm or the pandanus, which is frequently the case. On the outside, the ring or circlet shelves down for a distance of one or two hundred yards from its edge, so that the sea gradually deepens to about twenty-five fathoms, beyond which the sides of the ring plunge at once into the unfathomable depths of the ocean with a more rapid descent than the cone of any volcano. Even at the small distance of some hundred yards no bottom has been reached with a sounding line a mile and a half long. All the coral on the exterior of the ring, to a moderate depth below the surface of the water, is alive ; all above it is dead, being the detritus of the living part washed up by the surf, which is so heavy on the windward side of the tropical islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, that it is often heard miles off, and is frequently the first warning to seamen of their approach to an atoll.
On the inside, these coral rings shelve down into the clear calm water of the lagoon by a succession of ledges of living corals, but of much more varied and delicate kinds than those on the exterior wall and foundation of the atoll. The corals known as Porites are the chief agents in building the exterior face of the ring : they form great rounded irregular masses, like the Astrsea, but much larger, being many feet in thickness ; and as the polypes are only alive on the surface, numberless gene- rations must have lived and died before they could have arrived at that size. The rays of the stars are toothed at the edges, so that they present roAvs of little points ;
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in some species the rays are almost invisibly slender, the interstitial matter is full of pores, and the i)olypes have twelve tentacles.
The Millepora complanata or palmipora is very com- monly associated with the Porites ; it is the largest coral knoTvn. It grows in thick vertical plates, intersecting each other at various angles, and forms an exceedingly strong honey-combed mass, generally affecting a cir- cular form, the marginal plates alone being alive. In- stead of stars, the j)olypes live in simple pores : myriads of these small cylindrical pores penetrate the surface of the plates perpendicular to their axes ; sometimes they are so minute as to be scarcely visible.
Between the plates, and in the protected crevices of the outer circle of the ring, a multitude of branching- zoophytes and other productions flourish ; but the Porites, Astra3ans, and Millej)br8e seem alone able to resist the fury of the breakers, essential to the very existence of these hardy corals, which only obtain their full develop- ment when washed by a heavy sea. The outer margins of the Maldive atolls, consisting chiefly of Milleporse and Porites, are beat hy a surf so tremendous that even ships have been thrown by a single heave of the sea high and dry on the reef. The waves give innate vigour to the pol}T3es by bringing an ever-renewed supply of food to nourish them, and oxygen to aerate their j uices : besides, uncommon energy is given and maintained by the heat of a tropical sun, which gives them power to abstract enormous quantities of solid matter from the water to build their stony homes, a power that is efiicient in pro- portion to the energy of the breakers which furnish the supply.
The Porites and Milleporse, which are the chief reef- building corals, cannot live at greater depths than fif- teen or twenty-five fathoms : not for want of heat, for the temperature of the ocean in these latitudes does not
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sink to 68° Fahr. till a depth of 100 fathoms, but light and abundance of uncombined air are essential, and these decrease as the depth increases. The polypes perish if exposed directly to the sun even for a short time, so they build horizontally between these limits. The actinian polypes in the corals, which live at diffe- rent depths in the crevices of the atolls, have the same general structure ; their disks and tentacles are some- times tinted with brilliant colours ; some sting, others have a considerable diversity of individual character.
On the margin of the atolls, close within the line where the coral is washed by the tide, three species of NuUipores flourish ; they are beautiful little plants, very common in the coral islands. One species grows in thin spreading sheets, like a lichen ; the second in stony knobs as thick as a man's finger, radiating from a com- mon centre ; and the third species, which has the colour of peach blossom, is a reticulated mass of stiff" branches about the thickness of a crow's quill. The three species either grow mixed or separately, and, although they can exist above the line of the corals, they require to be bathed the greater part of each tide : hence a layer two or three feet thick, and about twenty yards broad, formed by the growth of the Nullipores, fringes the circlet of the atolls and protects the coral below.
The lagoon in the centre of these islands is supplied with water from the exterior by openings in the lee side of the ring, but as the water has been deprived of the greater part of its nutritious particles and inorganic matter by the corals on the outside, the hardier kinds are no longer produced, and species of more delicate forms take their place. The depths of the lagoon varies in diff'erent atolls from fifty to twenty fathoms or less, the bottom being partly detritus, partly live coral. In these calm and limpid waters the corals are of the most varied and delicate structure, of the most charming and daz-
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zling" hues. When the shades of evening come on, the lagoon shines like the milky way with myriads of bril- liant sparks. The microscopic medusae and crustaceans invisible by day form the beauty of the night, and the sea- feather, vermilion in da3dight, now waves with green phosphorescent light. This gorgeous character of the sea bed is not peculiar to the lagoons of the atolls ; it prevails in shallow water throughout the whole coral- bearing regions of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
Encircling reefs differ in no respect from the atoll ring, except in having islands in their lagoons, surrounded also by coral reefs. Barrier reefs are of the same structure as the atoll rings, from which they only differ in their position with regard to the land. They form extensive lines along the coasts, from which they are separated by a channel of the sea of variable depth and breadth, sometimes large enough for ships to pass. A very long one runs parallel to the west coast of New Caledonia, and stretches for 120 miles beyond the ex- tremities of the island. But a barrier reef off the north- eastern coast of the Australian continent is the grandest coral formation existing. Rising at once from an un- fathomable depth of the ocean, it extends for a thousand miles along the coast with a breadth varjdng from 200 yards to a mile, and at an average distance of from 20 to 60 or 70 miles from the coast, the depth of the chan- nel being from 10 to 60 fathoms. The pulse of the ocean, transcendently sublime, beats perpetually in peals of thunder along that stupendous reef, the fabric of almost microscopic beings.
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SECTION V.
ANNULOSA, OR WORMS.
The Annulosa, whicli are the lowest grade of articu- lated animals, consist of four distinct orders: the En- tozoa, which are muscle and intestine parasites; the Turbellarise, fresh and salt-water animals covered with cilia ; the Annelida, or Worms ; and the Rotifers, or Wheel animalcules.
Entozoa.
There are three genera and numerous species of Entozoa. Every animal has one or more species peculiar to itself; fourteen infest the human race. They have a soft, absorbent body of a white or whitish colour, in consequence of being excluded from light, and living as they do by absorbing the vitalized juices of the ani- mals they infest. Their nutritive system is in the lowest state of development ; yet there are some of a higher grade. All are remarkable for their vast productive- ness.
The Tsenioidse, which belong to the inferior group, are intestinal, nianj^-jointed worms, w^hicli have neither mouth nor digestive organs ; and what is called the head has only hooks and suckers to fasten it to the internal membrane of the animal at whose expense it lives. The common Tsenia, or Tape-worm, sometimes ten feet long, which is the type of the order, has four
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suckers and a circle of hooklets roTind a terminal pro- boscis to attach it to its victim. Though destitute of the organs of nutrition it is extremely prolific, for each segment of its long flat body is a reproductive monoecious zooid, which forms and lays its own eggs exactly as if it were a single independent animal, thus furnishing a very remarkable instance of the law of irrelative repetition, which is a series of organs per- forming the same functions independently of one an- other. Two pairs of canals containing a clear colourless liquid extend throughout the body of the worm.
Bags, or vesicles called cysts, had been found in the glands and muscles of various animals, afterwards dis- covered to contain young worms, which attain their perfect development within such creatures as eat the flesh containing the cysts. Under circumstances so un- precedented, it required no small skill and patience to determine the life-history of these singular creatures. The cysts differ in size and form according to the genera, and are embedded singly or in groups in the flesh of their victim, on whose ready prepared juices they live.
The greater number of the Taenia genus begui their lives as sexless cysted larvse, and on entering their final abode, segments are successively added till the worm has arrived at its adult state. The tape- worm of the cat has its origin in the encysted larvae found in the livers of the mouse and rat. One species of Entozoa, while in its primary state, inhabits the stomach of the stickleback, and only comes to perfection within the aquatic birds that feed on this fish. Another species infests the livers of the salmon tribe, and gets its per- fect form in the pike and perch.
Sheep and the hog are more tormented with cysted worms than any other domestic animals used for food. If introduced into the human intestines by eating raw ham or sausages, the larvse soon acquire the perfect
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form. The eggs of the Tsenia may be introduced into the human or animal stomach ; for dogs and other car- nivora which eat raw imwholesome meat are infested by full grown tsenia, which fix themselves to their entrails by their hooks and suckers, while at the same time egg-bearing segments separate successively from their posterior extremity, and being voided scatter the esfsfs far and wide on land and in water.
The young of some Entozoa undergo various trans- formations, as those of the Distoma of the Lymnsea. When fall grown that entozoon is like a sole, flat, broad, and long, with a kind of head at the broad end, and two suckers on its under- surface, in one of which there is a pore serving as a mouth, whence an alimen- tary canal extends, which spreads in branches almost throughout the whole body. This animal has a fila- mentary nerve round its gullet, from which minute fibres pass to the mouth, and two filaments extend backward on each side as far as the second sucker. The eggs which occupy the whole margin of the body are developed into worms, each of which seems to be merely a mass of structureless cells enclosed in a con- tractile case. By a second change each of these cells is transformed into a freely swimming ciliated zooid endowed with eyes. Having escaped from their con- tractile case, they remain for a time in that state, and then imbed themselves in the mucus on the foot of the fresh- water mollusk Lymnsea, or pond snail, where they are transformed into true Distomata, and ultimately enter into the body of the Lymnsea itself, where they lose their eyes and cilia, which are no longer of use in their dark and permanent abode. The Fluke found in the livers of sheep that have the rot is a Distoma.
The Nematoid order, or thread- worms, that live in the muscles of men and animals, are long, smooth, and cy- lindrical, with a structureless skin covering layers of
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longitudinal and circular fibres, by means of wliicli they can stretch and contract themselves. They are gene- rally pointed at both ends with a mouth at one ex- tremity and an orifice at the other. The Filarise are slender, sometimes of great length, as the Guinea worm, which varies in length from six inches to two, eight, or even twelve feet. In Persia they are believed to be in- troduced into the system by drinking water in which their eggs have been deposited. This worm may grow in the muscles of a man to the size of ^yq or six feet without giving much annoyance, but when its head bores through the skin it produces a painful sore unless extracted. In Persia, where the worm is common, the natives seize it by the head, draw it carefully out, and wind it round a bit of wood, an operation which may require several days to accomplish. It has a numerous viviparous progeny, which come out through the mouth. There are certain very small slender species of Filaria which atta.ck the eyes both of men and horses ; some bury themselves close to the eye, and a very minute kind enters the ball itself.
The Ascaris lumbricoides, a common intestinal thread- worm of the hog, ox, and the human race, is sometimes of great length. The sexes are distinct, and their fertility enormous. The ovaries are two tubes sometimes several feet long, in each of which the eggs are arranged in whorls round a central stem, like the flowers of a plantago. By counting the number of microscopic eggs in a whorl, and the number of whorls. Dr. Eschricht ascertained that in a full grown female the average number of eggs amounted to sixty-four millions. In this species of worm the embryo is not developed from the egg while within the victim, so that most of the eggs perish.
Difi'erent species of AnguiUulse, which are minute eel-like worms slender as a hair, inhabit the alimentary canal of fresh-water snails, frogs, and fishes, but many
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species are not parasitic. These are often united in swarming masses that nesth) in mud, wet moss, wet earth, and aquatic plants. One species causes the cockle in wheat, appearing like a living tuft of white wool in the blackened grains. They appear in sour paste and in other decomposing substances, and are so tenacious of life that, after being completely dried for months, and apparently dead, they revive on being moistened.
Tnrhellarioe.
The Turbellarise are fresh- and salt-water animals, distinguished by having the whole surface of their bodies covered by cilia, under which in some species there are thread-cells containing six, eight, or a greater number of darts. Most of the members of this tribe have elongated flattened bodies, and move by a sort of crawling or gliding motion over the surface of aquatic plants and animals. Some of the smaller kinds are sufficiently transparent to allow their internal structure to be seen by transmitted light. The mouth, which is situated at a considerable distance from the rounded end of the bod}^, opens into a sort of gullet leading into the stomach, which has no other orifice, but a great number of branching canals are prolonged from it, which carry its contents into every part of the body. A pair of oval nerve-centres are placed near the rounded end of the animal, whence nerves extend to various parts of the body ; and near to these there are from two to forty rudimentary eyes according to the species, each of which has its crystalline lens, its pig- ment layer, nerve bulb, and its cornea. The power of the Planaria to reproduce portions which have been removed is but little inferior to that of the Hydra.
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Annelids.
The Annelids are the most highly organized of all the worm tribe. They are exceedingly numerous and varied ; some are inhabitants of fresh water, others are terrestrial, but by far the greater number and most highly endowed are marine. They generally have a long, soft, and smooth body, divided or marked by trans- verse rings into a succession of similar segments. In many the first and last segments are alike ; in others the first segment can scarcely be called a head, though it exercises several functions, while in the highest two orders the head is the seat of several senses. On each side of the bodies of the Annelida there are one or two long rows of tufted bristles or feet, which may be re- garded as the earliest form of symmetrical locomotive organs. Most of the Annelids have ocelli or eye-specks, and in many of them the head supports soft cylindrical tentacles, which are obviously organs of touch. These worms are divided into four orders, the Suctorial, Ter- restrial, Tubercular, and Err antia, or Wandering Worms.^
The first order consists of Leeches of different kinds : their body is long, slightly segmented, with a suctorial disc at each end. Their skin is smooth, whitish, and translucent ; beneath it are cells filled with brown or greenish matter, and three layers of muscular fibres follow; the first are transverse, the second cross one another diagonally so as to form a network, and the third are longitudinal. The mouth, which occupies the centre of the principal sucking disk, varies in form with the genera. In the common leech it has an en- larged lip, and opens into a short gullet leading into a capacious and singularly complicated stomach, divided by deep constrictions into eleven compartments, the last
^ According to the system of M. Milne-Edwards, who made the Annulosa it particular object of investigation.
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of wliicli is connected witli an intestinal canal, which ends in a vent in the middle of the terminal sucker.
Within the mouth there are three crescent-shaped jaws, presenting- their convex edges towards the cavity of the mouth, beset with from seventy to eighty teeth, formed of a highly refractive crystalline substance re- semblino^ o-lass. The leech makes a vacuum with its sucker, which forces the part to which it is applied into contact with the three-toothed jaws, which are moved sidewise by strong muscles, and saw through the sldn :ind small bloodvessels below it.
The leech, like the other Annelids, has two distinct systems of circulating liquids, one red, the other colour- less. The red liquid or blood is kept in circulation by the pulsations of a heart, or rather a contractile vessel behind the head. It is carried away from the heart by a pulsating canal passing along the back of the leech, and is brought back to the heart by a similar canal ex- tending along its ventral side. During this course, por- tions of the liquid are sent off through veins to different parts of the body. The resph-atory organs of the leech are pores arranged at regular distances on each side of the body which open into little sacs having capillary bloodvessels distributed under the skin through which the blood is aerated.
The colourless liquid which contains many organic molecules, occupies the space between the alimentary canal and the inner wall of the body, from whence it passes into canals Vv^hich ramify extensively, but are not furnished with returning passages. This liquid forms a support to the muscles of the skin, and is kept in circu- lation by the motions of the leech.
Fig. 131 shows the highly developed nervous system of the leech. From the double lobe of the brain ten optic nerves go to the bases of ten black eye-specks, vv^hich mark at equal distances the upper margin of the
SECT. V.
LEECHES.
expanded lip. A nerve-centre below the gullet supplies the lip and jaws with strong nerves. A double longitu- dinal cord, united at equal distances bj twentj-oue double nerve-centres, extends from a ring round the gullet thi'oughout the whol e length of the body, supplies the different organs with nerves, and ends near the vent in a nerve-centre, from whence nerves radiate through the terminal sucker.
The circulation of the blood and of the colourless liquid, as well as the nerve sys- tem, prevail generally in the Annelids, modified by the structure of the individual.
The leech, though greedy of blood, lives in fresh-water ponds, wet grass, and damp places, where it never can meet with warm-blooded animals. It probably lives on minute aquatic insects.
The common Earth-worm, which is a principal member of the second order of Annelids, has a more important part as- signed to it in the economy of nature than its humble appearance leads us to suspect. It has a long, soft, cylindrical body tapering to a point at both ends, divided into numerous rings. The mouth is furnished with a short proboscis, or snout, without teeth. A long salivary glandular mass surrounds a short wide gullet, which leads to a digestive organ similar to a gizzard, whence a canal is continued to the vent. The circulation of the two fluids, and the nervous system modified at head and tail, are like those of the leech. Four rows of minute bristles extend longitudinally alono^ the ventral surface of the worm, two on each side.
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Fig. 131. Nervous System of Leech..
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With a low magnifying-power they appear to be minute points regularly pushed out and drawn in; but when more highly magnified each point is seen to consist of two transparent glassy rods having their points bent backwards : on these feet the worm crawls very rapidly. While making its cylindrical burrow a slimy mucus exudes from the body of the worm, which cements the particles of earth together and renders the walls of the burrow perfectly smooth and slippery. When the worm pierces the earth it stretches its snout into a fine ]3oint that it may penetrate more easily, and when it is fixed, it draws its ringed body towards its head by a muscular effort; and to prevent it from slipping back again, it fixes the hooks of its posterior feet firmly into the ground. Having thus secured a point of support it penetrates deeper into the earth, draws up its body, fixes the hooks of the posterior feet into the smooth surface of the bur- row, and continues the same process till the burrow is deep enough. Thus the feet are employed as points of resistance for the exertion of muscular force. This worm swallows earth mixed with decaying animal and vegetable matter, assimilates the nutritive part, and casts out the refuse in the form of fine mould, which may be seen in little heaps at the edges of their burrows. In fact, nearly all the fine vegetable mould so precious to gardeners and farmers has passed through the intestines of the common earth-worm.
There is a colourless little fresh- water species of the genus Nais, re- markable for the beauty of its bristled feet. There are two pairs on each
Fig. 132. FootofNais. . ,, , i • \- n ^
ring 01 the worm, consisting oi wart- like perforated protuberances, through which a number of microscopic bristles protrude, arranged in a radiating
SECT. V. TUB ICO LA. 153
pencil like a fan. They are very slender, bent at the tip, and so transparent that they look like threads of spnn glass ; the worm thrnsts them out and draws them in with extreme rapidity.
A blood-red Nais lives in burrows in the mud at the bottom of springs and pools in immense multitudes ; large tracts of the mud of the Thames are red with a species of them ; half of their bodies stretched out ol* their burrows maintain a constant oscillating motion on its surface, but, like the earth-worm, they instantly shrink into their burrows on the least alarm. They have no respiratory organs ; but their blood is aerated through their skin, which is so transparent that, with a microscope, the whole of the internal structure, the mo- tions of the liquids, and the particles they contain are distinctly visible. The blood acts the part of internal gills, by aerating the colourless liquid contained in a set of vascular coils sun-ounding the organs of digestion.
The Tubicola are marine worms, forming the third order of Annelida, according to the system of M. Milne- Edwards. They live in tubes, either of a shelly cal- careous substance, which forms naturally on the tena- cious mucus of their skins, or in tubes artificially con- structed by themselves of sand and particles of shell glued together. All the Tubicola can protrude their gills and the anterior part of their bodies, and some can leave their tube and return to it again. These worms, which form beautiful objects for the microscope, have ringed bodies with tubular bristled feet, and respi- ratory organs or gills fixed either on the head or near it. They have an alimentary canal loosely attached to the ventral wall of the body, and two systems of circulating- liquids, one red, the other colourless. In the Tubular Annelids the principal organs of respiration are the con- tractile plumes on the head.
In the Terebella there are distinct oro-ans for the
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aeration of both liquids, -svliich form a beautiful plume when expanded, as in fig. 133, wliicli shows the animal
when out of its tube. What may be called the head is fixed upon the first ring of the body. The mouth has a lip like a funnel-shaped cup with numerous long slender tubular tentacles ; and two delicate arborescent branches or gills are fixed immediately behind the head. The colour- less liquid which occupies the space between the alimentary canal and the ventral wall of the worm, is sent by the con- tractions of the body into the slender tubular filaments round the mouth, which are covered by cilia, whose action continually renews the stra- tum of water in contact with them. The blood in its usual course enters the capillary tubes of the arborescent gills, where it is oxygenized, and, after being distributed to the different parts of the body,
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-a, lip,
Terebella conchilega. suiTounded by tentacles, 6 b, all placed upon the first segment of the body, c ; the skin of the back, d, is laid open, exposing the circulatoiy system ; e, pharynx ; /, intestine ; g, muscles of the belly ; h, gland, supposed to be the liver ; i, generative organs ; j, feet ; k k, gills ; /, heart ; w, dorso-intestinal vessel ; n , intestinal vessel ; n, venous sinus ; o o, ventral trunk, bi'anching into smaller veins, p.
returns to the heart and gills
The slender filaments which radiate from the head of the tubicular worms are flattened, sometimes tortuous, always ciliated, and are often barred and variegated by bright purple, green, and yellow tints, forming a rich and gorgeous crown.
SECT. y. TUB ICO LA. 155
Tlie mucus, which cements together the particles of sand and shell for the artificial tubes of this kind of worms, is believed to be secreted from glands in the first segment of the body ; but the long slender filaments of the head are the active agents in the structure. The tentacles are hollow bands with strong muscular edges, which the worm can bring together so as to form a cylinder, at any point of which it can take up a particle of sand, or a whole row of particles, and apply them to its glutinous body. The fibres at the free ends of the tentacles act both as muscular and suctorial organs ; for when the worm is going to seize a particle of sand or food, the extremity of the tentacle is drawn in by the reflux of the colourless liquid in its interior, so that a cup-shaped cavity is formed in which the particle is secured by atmospheric pressure, aided by the power of the circular muscular fibres at the extremity of the tentacle.
The Serpula and its allies are richly-coloured worms, living in contorted tubes with lids, frequently seen
Fig. 134. Pushing poles of Sei-pula.
encrusting rocks, the shells of oysters, and other mol- lusca. By a peculiar mechanism of their bristly feet they can oj)en the lid of their tube, push out their fan of gorgeous tentacles, pull it in again, and shut up the tube. As the protrusion of the worm from its tube is slow, cautious, and gradual, the retreat swift and sudden as lightning, there are two distinct sets of organs in the feet by which these motions are performed.*^
'^ Dr. Thomas Williams on ' British Annelides,' British Association, 18-52.
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On the back of the worm there is a sort of shield, the sides of which bear seven pairs of wart-like feet, which are perforated for the working of protrusile mi- croscopic bristles (fig. 134). Their upper parts are double- edged, with a groove between them, and serrated with close-set teeth. The organs of retreat are much more complicated and numerous. Mr. Gosse has computed that there are about 1,900 blades on the seven pairs of feet, each movable at the will of the worm, and that there are nearly 10,000 teeth hooked into the lining of the tube when it wishes to retreat. The manner in which it comes out of its tube and retires into it again is the same as that employed by the earth-worm.
There are twenty-four genera of the order Errantia, or wandering sea-worms. Multitudes swarm on every coast ; they have considerable muscular strength, and are highly irritable ; some are called sea-centipedes, from the number of their feet and length of their segmented bodies, which are slender, and vary from a few inches or less to thirty-five or forty feet. They are generally coiled up under stones, or wander by the slipperiness of their smooth skins through masses of sea-weeds or shells at low tide. In most of them the rings are de- cidedly marked ; the first and last segments are unlike, while the rest are mere repetitions one of another. Their locomotive organs are a pair of perforated fleshy warts on each of their numerous segments, through which groups of rigid, simple or ba^rbed bristles are pro- truded and retra.cted.
The Errant Worms have a distinct small head with a mouth, or rather an orifice, on the upper side of it, through which a cylindrical gullet is from time to time turned inside out, forming a kind of pear-shaped bag, whose surface is studded with secreting glands ; and its extremity, which is perforated, is surrounded by a muscle that contracts strongly on whatever it is applied to, and
SECT. T. ERRANTIA. i-j
holds it firmly wliile the re-inversion of the sac draws it into the body to be digested. This apparatus is un- armed in the genera Arenicola, Phyllodoce, and others, but in the Nereis it has one pair of strong curved horny jaws. In the Eunice there are three toothed jaws on one side and four jaws on the other side of the gullet, each pair having a different form, and the tiny Lombri- nereis has eight little black hooks which are seen through its pellucid tissues, sna^Dping like so many pairs of hooked scissors. The Errant "Worms are voraciously carnivorous, and when the gullet is turned inside out the toothed jaws project, seize the prey, and drag it into a ciliated alimentary canal, for there is no proper stomach in these worms. The canal is generally straight, and terminates in a vent at the posterior end of the body.
The respiratory organs of the Errantia are external gills of great variety of forms : they are chiefly like branching trees, or filamentary bushes, traversed by ca- pillary bloodvessels. They are sometimes small, and arranged on every segment along both sides of the back ; sometimes they are large and fixed only at intervals. Like the lower Annelids, they have two liquid systems, one red and the other colourless, and the circulation of the blood is the same ; but as the pulsations of the vessel behind the head are too feeble to send the blood throuo-h the labyrinth of capillary vessels in these long worms, there is a supplementary heart, or pulsating vessel, in each segment of the worm, which partakes in and facilitates the general circulation.
The Eunice and other very long worms may have hundreds of these centres of propulsion, which make the circulation rapid ; and it is increased by the rest- lessness and activity of the worms themselves, which bring their gills perpetually into new strata of water.
The nervous system of the Errantia consists of a
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double cord extending along the ventral side of the body, and united at eqnal intervals by double nerve- centres, as in fig. 131 ; but in the Annelids the two cords diverge below the gullet, surround it, unite again above that tube, and form a principal bilobed nerve- centre or brain. Each segment of the worm is occupied by a small double nerve-centre. In some of these marine worms there are hundreds of segments and as many nerve-centres. There are more than a thousand of these pairs of nerve-centres on the ventral cord of the Nemertes gigas, or Great Band Worm, which is sometimes forty feet long and an inch broad. The head is like a snake, and the bristled feet are jointed to enable it to move over hard surfaces.
The movements of the bristly feet of the Errantia are reflex, depending on the nerve-centres in their seg- ments; but they are controlled and connected by the double cord which passes through them.
Every hair, cirrus, and tentacle on the bodies of the Errant Worms is a living organ of feeling, shrinking at the smallest touch, but enabling them to select their food, to move towards and retreat from objects, and to thread their way through the most intricate labyrinths with unerring certainty, which seems to render them independent of eyes ; yet many of them have multitudes of eyes, or rather eye-specks, according to the genera. Some have but one eye-speck placed in the forehead ; one genus has a double row throughout their whole length, two in each segment, while the Amphicora has two in its tail. All these eye-specks have their crystalline lens, pigment-layer, and nerve-bulb, so that the Errant Worms must see objects, and their motions show that they do ; but we can form no idea of the kind of vision.
Besides the variety of organs on the skin of the Errantia, some of these worms have two rows of flat plates on their backs overlapping each other at their
SECT. V. ERRAXTIA,
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edges like the scales of a fisli. They are well developed in the Aphrodita hystrix, or the Sea Moase of fisher- men, and its congeners. That Annelid, which is an inhabitant of European coasts, is thicker and broader than other sea- worms. The two rows of overlapping shields on its back, and the quantity of iridescent hairs, cirri, and other appendages covering the body, is so great as to form a kind of felt or fur like the skin of a mouse. The members of this genus of sea- worms have no gills properly so called ; the only ex- ternal sign of respiration is a periodical elevation and depression of the shields on their backs by the action of a complex system of muscles. The thick covering of felt on the body of the v/orm below the shields becomes filled with water during their elevation, which is ejected forcibty at the posterior end of the body during their de- pression. Although "the water does not penetrate the thin skin on the back of the worm, its oxj^gen does, and is accumulated in the colourless liquid in which the stomach fioats ; and from it the blood, which is of a paie yellow colour, receives its oxygen. The feet of the worm are fan-shaped groups of sharp glassy bristles enclosed between two plates, which prevent them from hurting the animal when it puts them out or draws them in. The Aphrodita is male and female : the eggs escape through X3ores in the female, and are received in a kind of pouch beneath the dorsal shields till hatched. The embryo is an oval locomotive mass, with groups of cilia, and indications of an eye-speck: after swimming about for twenty-four hours, the segments begin to be developed.
Worms of the genus Polynoe have also two rows of shields on their backs, but they are studded with trans- parent oval bodies on short stems, supposed to be organs of touch- The filiform tentacles and antennae that are developed between the shields, as well as the cirri or cm-ly bristles of the feet, are likewise covered
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WW
Fig. 1-35. Foot of a Polynoe.
with similar sensitive organs. Fig. 135 sliows the foot, cirri, and bristles of a Poljnoe, which are enclosed in
plates which preserve them from hurting the worm. These glassy bristles are beautiful objects under the mi- croscope ; still more so are the jointed feet, transparent as the purest flint glass, of the PhjUodoce viridis, one of the most beau- tiful Annelids on our coasts, where it threads its way among young mollusca like a slender green cord, exhibiting foliaceous gills in the highest perfection.
In the marine Annelids the embryo, on leaving the Qgg, is a gelatinous globular mass of cells furnished with strong cilia. In a few hours the mass elongates and divides into four parts, a head, a large ciliated segment, a smaller one without cilia, and a ciliated tail. After a time a succession of new segments are interposed, one by one, next to the tail segment, and the correspond- ing internal organs of each are developed till the worm arrives at its adult state. In many Annelids the embryo is highly developed within the parent ; that of the Eunice has from 100 to 120 segments before it leaves her ; and in the Nereis diversicolor the young, covered with cilia, come out by hundreds at an orifice in the side of the mother.
Many of the marine Annelids are luminous ; electric scintillations are given out during the act of nervous contraction, which are increased in brilliancy and ra- pidity by irritation.
According to Professeur Quatrefages, the Annelida
SECT. V.
TARDlGItADA. i6i
Errantia and Tubicola liave no zoological regions clia- racterized bj one or more special t3^pes like tlie other classes of animals; they have representatives in all seas. Bnt it is exactly the contrary v^ith regard to species. The number of species common to any tvro seas, or the shores of two continents, is very small; there is not a single species common to the Atlantic coasts of France and the Mediterranean. The sea-v^orms are not affected by climate, bnt they are said to be more abundant on granitic and schistose coasts than on the calcareous."^
With regard to fossil remains, worm-tracks are seen in the Forest marble, long calcareous tubes occur in the Upper Silurian and Carboniferous strata, and in all the later formations tubercular Annelids abound, espe- cially of the genera Serpula, Spirorbis, and Vermilia.^
Tardigrada.
The Tardigrades are slow creeping animalcules, which seem to form a link between the Worms and the Rotifers, though they are more nearly allied to the former in having a vermiform body divided transversely into five segments, the first of which is the head, and each of the others has a pair of little fleshy protuberances furnished with four curled hooks. They resemble the Eotifers in their jaws, in their general grade of organization, and in the extreme length of time they can remain dried up without loss of life. When in the dried state they can be heated to a temperature of 250° Fahr. without the destruction of life, although when in full activity they cannot endure a temperature of more than from 112° to 115° Fahr. When alive the transparency of their skin is such as to show a complicated muscular system, the fibre of which is smooth; and as no respiratory organs
" ' Comptes rendus,' Ji;ly 1864. ^ ' Palseontology,' by Professor Owen. VOL. II. M
1 6 2 RO TITER A. part hi.
liave yet been found, tlieir respiration mnst be cuta- neous. These animalcules Lave no nerve-centre in the head, but they have one in each segment of the body ; and they are furnished with a suctorial mouth at the end of a retractile proboscis, on each side of which are two tooth-like styles, the rudiments of lateral jaws. The structure of these creatures is microscopic.
'Rotifera,
Although the Eotifera are microscopic objects, their organization is higher than that of the Annelida in some respects. They are minute animalcules, which appear in vegetable infusions and in sea-water, but by far the greater number are found in fresh-water pools long ex- posed to the air: occasionally they appear in enormous numbers in cisterns which have neither shelter nor cover ; a few can live in moist earth, and sometimes individuals are seen in the large cells of the Sphagnum or Bog-Moss.
The bodies of the Rotifers have no cilia; they are perfectly transparent, elongated, or vermiform, but not segmented ; they have two coats, both of which in some genera are so soft and flexible that the animal can as- sume a variety of forms; while in others the external coat is a gelatinous horny cylindrical shell or tunic en- closing the whole body except the two extremities, which the animal can protrude or draw in. The soft kind can crawl over solid surfaces by the alternate contraction and extension of their bodies like a worm, and the stift* Rotifers are capable of doing the same by the contrac- tility of their head and tail. All can swim by means of cilia or lobes at their head. The greater number pos- sess means of attaching themselves to objects by the posterior end of their bodies and of removing to an- other place.
The wheel-like organs from which the class has its
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ROTIFERA.
163
name, are most characteristic in tlie common Eotifer (fig. 137), where they consist of two disk-like lobes pro- jecting from the body whose margins are fringed with long cilia. It is the nninterriipted succession of strokes given bj these cilia, passing consecutively like waves along the lobes, and apparently returning into them- selves, which gives the impression of two wheels in rapid rotation round their axes.
The Brachionus pala (fig. 136) affords another instance of the two- wheeled Rotifers. Though of unusually large dimensions in its class, it is just visible to the naked eye as a brilliant particle of diamond when moving in a glass of water. Its transparent horny tunic, when viewed in front with a micro- scope, is a cup of elegant form, bulging at the sides*; One side of the rim is furnished with four S23ines, of which the middle pair are slender and sharp as needles, with a deep cleft between them ; the other side of the rim is nndulated but not toothed, and the bottom of the cup ends in two broad blunt points.
Between the terminal blunt points there is a ronnd opening for the protrusion of the foot of the animal. The tunic is of glassy transparency, so that every organ and function of the animal can be traced with per- fect distinctness.
The foot of the animal is long, rough and wrinkled, not unlike the flexible trunk of an elephant. It can be lengthened, shortened, drawn within, or pushed out of
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Fig. 136. Bracliionus pala, vdth. three eggs attached to its foot.
164 ROTIFERA. PART III,
the tunic in an instant. It terminates in two short conical fingers or toes, which can be widely sepa- rated or brought into contact. By means of these, the Brachion has the power of mooring itself even to the smooth surface of glass so firmly, that it can stretch itself in all directions, shaking itself to and fro with sudden violence without letting go its hold. The Roti- fers usually fix themselves before they set their wheels in motion in search of food.
From the anterior rim of the shelly cup, the Brachion j^rotrudes a waved outline of limpid flesh which, as soon as it rises above the level of the sharp-pointed spines, spreads out into three broad flatfish muscular lobes. On the edges of the middle one there are very strong cilia like stifP bristles, w^hich do not vibrate, but are either erect or converge to a point, whereas the edges of the other two lobes are thickly fringed with long stout cilia, which, by striking the water in perj^etual rapid succession, each cilium bending and rising again, produce the appearance of two circles of dark spots in rapid horizontal rotation, like wheels on their axis. It is merely an optical deception, for both the animal and its lobes may be at rest. The vibrations of the cilia can be instantaneously arrested, and the whole apparatus drawn out of sight, and as instantaneously protruded and set in motion.
In the flesh, on the ventral side of the Brachion, there is a deep cleft, the edges of which as well as the whole interior of a tube of which it is the orifice, are thickly covered with vibratile cilia. This tube leads to a mouth with powerful jaws of unwonted structure, which is so deeply sunk in the tissues of the body, that it never comes into contact with the water. It opens into a gullet leading to a stomach, intestine, and vent, at the posterior end of the body.
The vibrations of the cilia on the lobes of the animal's
SECT. Y. ' ROTIFEBA. 165
head form two circular currents in the water, like whirlpools, which draw all floating particles into their v.ortices, and the streams from the two Avhirlpools uni- ting into one current, flow off horizontally and pass im- mediately over the slit on the ventral side of the animal. Some of the floating particles are arrested by the cilia on the edges of the slit, and are drawn into the sunken mouth by the vibrations of the cilia in the tube. The edges of the slit act like lips, and seem to possess the sense of taste, or of some modification of touch, which enables them to select from the particles presented to them, such as are fit for food ; these are admitted into the mouth, where they are bruised by the powerful jaws. The mouth or masticating apparatus is the most extra- ordinary and complex part of this animal. It consists of two horny toothed jaws, acting like hammers upon an anvil. The two hammers, which approach each other from the dorsal sides of the body, are each formed of two par+s united by a hinge ; the first parts correspond to the handles ; the second parts, which are bent at right angles to the first, resemble hands with five or six finger-shaped teeth united by a thin membrane. The teeth are parallel to one another when they meet on the anvil, and are seen through the transparent mass tear- ing the food into fragments. Some of the Rotifers re- semble the Errant Annelids in being: able to turn this complicated machine inside-out through the ciliated tube and slit, so as to bring it into contact with the water. When the food has been masticated it is sent into the stomach, where it is digested. The whole of this process is seen through the transparent and colour- less body of the Brachion, because its favourite food is the Syncryn velox, a minute bright green plant, which from its active motions was at one time believed to be an animal.
The Brachion h:i3 four longitudinal muscular bands
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transversely striated, which move the ciHated lobes of the head, push them out and draw them in. From these muscular thi-eads are sent to the different parts of the body, to the mouth especially, two strong bands, w^hich bend and unbend the joints of the hammer-like jaws. The vigorous motions of the long serpentine foot and the firm hold of its anchors are owing to muscular bauds fixed high up on the interior wall of the body, which extend throughout the whole length of the flexible organ. As long as the Brachion is fixed, the vibrations of the cilia on its lobes only produce wliirl- pools in the water, but the moment that it lets go its hold, these vibrations, in consequence of the reaction of the water, give the animal both a smooth progressive motion and a rotation round its axis.
Minute as the Brachionus pala is, it has several organs of sense. A sparkling, ruby-coloured, square eye-speck with a crystalline lens and crimson pigment layer is placed on a wai4:-like prominence on its back, and this prominence Mr. Gosse believes to be the bram of the animal. In the cleft between the spines and close to the eye-S]3eck are two tubes, one within the other. The innermost tube, which can be protruded and withdrawn, has a bunch of bristles at its extremity that have the sensibility of antennse. Nerves from the brain pass into these, to the various organs of the body, and to the lobes on the head.
The Brachion has no propelling vessel or heart to maintain the circulation of its liquids, but, like the Annelids, a colourless liquid occupies the general cavit}'- between the alimentary canal and the internal wall of the body. It is believed to be connected with nutrition, and is furnished with oxygen by a complicated organism, and is kept in motion by the vibrations of long cilia. The determination of the whole structure and motions of a creature barely visible to the naked eye, is a won-
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derful instance of microscopic research, and of the per- fection of the mechanism exhibited in the most minute objects of creation.
Fig*. 137 represents the common Eotifer when its wheels are expanded and when they are retracted. The body is slender and flexible, it is stretched out by longi- tudinal muscles, and its girth is diminished by circular ones. The internal struc- ture is similar to that of the Brachion, but there is a 2)rominence or head between the wheels on which there are two crimson eye-specks, and the foot terminates in three concentric movable tubes that can be protruded and dra-v\ni in like the tubes of a telescoj^e ; each has, a pair of claspers to enable the Eotifer to fix itself to any object.
The Rotifers are male and female, but, like the greater number of Infusoria, the males are only produced at intervals. The female Roti- fers have their perfect form when they leave the egg : they even come out of the egg while it is attached to the tail of the mother, as in the Brachionus pala (fig. 136). The males, when hatched, have neither spines nor mouth, yet, dm-ing their short lives, their motions are very fleet on account of the vibrations of long cilia round their front.
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Fig. 1 37. Common Rotifer :— a, mouth ; b, eye-spots ; c, wheels ; d, probably antenna ; e, jaws and teeth ; /, ali- mentary canal ; g, glandular mass enclosing \t;h, longitudinal muscles ; i I, tubes of water-vascular system ; k, young animal ; I, cloaca.
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Some Rotifers are remarkably fertile. Professor Ehrenberg estimated that, in the course of twenty-four days, the offspring of a single individual of the genus Hydatina might amount to seventeen millions. Female eggs laid in autumn are collected in heaps and covered with a gelatinous substance, which protects them from the cold in winter, though the Rotifers themselves are sufficiently protected by their great tenacity of life. They revive after being frozen ; they may be dried for an unlimited time, but, as soon as they meet with warmth, moisture, and food, they resume their vitality.
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SECTION YI.
ECHINODEEMATA.
This class consists of five orders, all of wliicli are marine. They are, with one exception, creeping ani- mals, and the whole class is remarkable for having most of their members and general structure either in fives or multiples of five. Their skin is hardened by calcareous deposits, sometimes of beautiful microscopic structure : they have a digestive cavity, a vascular fluid system, and some distinct respiratory organs, so that they are comparatively of a high grade.
Echinodermata Asteroidea,
The Asteroidea, or Star-Fishes, which are the highest order, form two natural families, the Stelleridse and Ophiuridse, which comprise twenty-two genera.
The simplest form of the Stelleridee is the common star-fish, with its flat regularly five-sided disk. A tough membrane, strengthened by reticulated calcareous mat- ter, covers the back, and bends down along the sides, while the under-side of the body or disk, on which the animal creeps, is soft and leathery, with the mouth in its centre. In the other genera, although the body is still a flat, five, equal-sided disk, the angles are extended into long arms, broad whence they diverge from the disk, but decreasing rapidly in width to their extremities, so that the animal is exactly like a star with five long, equal, and flexible rays.
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The backs of all the star-fishes are covered with most mmute movable spmes, and with microscopic organs like minute pincers, called pedicellarise, which are diffused generally over the surface, and form dense groups round the spines. They have a slender, con- tractile, calcareous stem, and a head formed of two blades, which they continually open and shut, the whole being coated with a soft external tissue. They grasp anything very firmly, and are supposed to be used to free the star-fish from parasites. In some species of Goniaster the pedicellarise resemble the vane of an arrow, and are so numerous as to give a villous appear- ance to the skin of the back.
On the under-side of each ray of a star-fish, a cen- tral groove or furrow extends throughout its whole length, and the semi-calcareous flexible membrane which covers the back and rays not only bends down round the sides of the rays, but borders both edges of the grooves. Upon these edges ridges of small calcareous plates beset with spines are placed transversely : they are larger near the mouth, and gradually decrease in size as they approach the point of the ray.
Interior to the spines, these ridges are pierced by alternate rows of minute holes for the long row^s of feet, which diminish in size to the end of the ray. The feet are contractile muscular tubes communicating through the holes with internal muscular sacs, which are re- garded as their bases. The sacs are full of a liquid, and when the animal compresses them the liquid is forced through the holes into the tubular feet, and stretches them out ; and when the muscular walls of the hollow feet are contracted, the liquid is forced back again into the sacs, and the feet are drawn in. The liquid is furnished by a circle of small vascular tentacles, or sacs, surromiding the mouth, which are both loco-
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motive and prehensile. From these a canal extends through the centre of each ray, which in its course sends off lateral branches to the bases of the feet to supply them with liquid. The whole of this system of vessels and feet are lined with vibratile cilia, which maintain a perpetual circulation in the liquid.
The toothless mouth on the under-side of the disk dilates so as to admit large mollusca with their shells. The short gullet and stomach are everted, protruded through the mouth, and applied round the object to be swallowed, which is then drawn in, digested, and the shell is discharged by the mouth. However, in three orders of this family there is a short intestine and vent. From the large stomach, which occupies the cen- tral part of the disk of the star-fish, a couple of tubes extend to the extremity of each ray, where they secrete a substance essential for digestion : the stomach is in fact a radiating organ, partaking the form of the animal it sustains.
A pulstitory vessel near the gullet propels the yellow blood into a system of fine tubes, that are spread over the walls of the stomach and its rays. Through these walls the blood receives a nutritious liquid, which it carries with it into a network of capillary vessels, widely extended throughout the body, being propelled by the contractile powers of the vessels themselves, and after having supplied the tissues with nourishment, it is carried by tubes to the point from whence it started, to begin a new course. The capillary network passes immediately under a portion of the skin of the star-fish, through which an exchange of the respiratory gases takes place. Besides, the star-fishes breathe the sea- water through numerous conical tubes, that project in patches from the back. Through these tubes, which can be opened and shut, the water is readily admitted
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into the cavity containing the digestive organs, with which they are in communication. The star-fish slowly distends itself with water, and then gives out a portion of it, but at no regular time. The cavity is never empty of water, and as its lining is densely bristled with cilia, their vibrations keep the vascular surface of the digestive organs perpetually bathed with the respiratory medium.
The star-fishes have a radiating system of nerves suited to their form. A ring of slender nerve-cords surrounds the mouth, from whence three nerves are sent off at the commencement of each ray : two of these, which are filaments, go to the organs in the central disk, while the middle one, which is a great trunk, passes through the centre of the rays, and terminates in a nerve-centre, or ganglion, placed under a coloured eye- speck at their extremity. The structure of the rays, the eye-specks, and the nerve-centres below them, are so similar, that they are merely, repetitions of one another ; hence no nerve-centre can control the others, but they are all connected by the ring encircling the mouth, which is a common bond of communication. How far the movements of these animals mdicate sensa- tion we have not the power to determine, but they feel acutely, for the mouth, the feet, and especially the pedicellarise, are highly sensitive, and shrink on the least touch. The eye-specks are probably sensitive to light, and as the star-fishes often feed on putrid matter, they are supposed to be endowed with the sense of smell.
The family of the Ophiuridse, or Snake Stars, are widely distributed in the ocean. The genus Euryales with branching rays, and that of Ophiura with simple rays, comprising the Brittle and Sand Stars, are abundant in the British seas. In the sand stars there are cavities full of sand at the points from whence the rays diverge, which appear like warts on the surface of the disk.
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Their rays are exceedingly long, thin, and flexible; they have no central groove nor feet, but they are em- ployed as organs of locomotion and prehension, for by their alternate strokes the sand stars can elevate or depress themselves in the water, creep on the bottom, and by twisting them round objects they can fix them- selves, firmly aided by spines or bristles on their edges. The Ophionyx has the addition of movable hooks be- neath bristled spines. The rays are bent by the con- traction of internal muscles, and extended again by the elasticity of the external leathery coat. The Ophiuridse, like the Luidia fragilissima belonging to the preceding order, cast off a ray if touched, and even all the five if rudely handled ; but they can replace them with as much ease. If only a fragment of a disk remains attached to a ray the whole animal may be reproduced.
The Ophiuridse have an internal calcareous skeleton or framework, in the form of spicules, scattered in their tissues. They have a capacious mouth with tentacles and ten small chisel-shajDed teeth, ^yq on each side, which meet and close the mouth. The mouth is sepa- rated from the stomach by a circular muscle that opens and shuts the passage, but no canal diverges from the stomach through the rays. The nervous system and the circulation of the blood are similar to those in the Stel- leridse ; and respiratory organs, in the form of from two to four plates, or lamellae, project from each of the sj^aces between the bases of the rays into the central cavity, by which sea-water has free access to bathe the digestive organs and aerate the blood.
The colour of the star-fishes, as well as of other ma- rine invertebrate animals, seems to be independent of light. The Ophiuridse that had been living at a depth of 1,260 fathoms in the North Atlantic were coloured, though not a ray of light could reach their dark home, and those dredged up from 100 to 300 fathoms on the
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coast of Korway were of brilliant hues — red, vermilion, •white, and yellow. In general, both plants and animals of the lower kinds become of a sickly white when kept in darkness.
The Stellerida? are male and female, and form fertilized eggs of an orange or red colour. These eggs are first converted into a mass of cells and then into larvse, not radiating symmetrically like their parents, but of a bi- lateral form, the two sides being perfectly alike and bordered by a ciliated fringe nearly throughout their whole length. These two fringes are united by a superior and inferior transverse ciliated band, and between the two the mouth is placed. A stomach, intestine, and vent are formed ; the creatures can provide for themselves, and swim about as independent zooids. A young star- fish is gradually developed by a succession of internal growths, part of the original zooid is retained, and the rest is either thrown oif or absorbed ; then the star- fishes having lost the power of swimming, crawl slowly away and acquire their full size. There is great diversity in the external form of the zooids of the different genera, as well as in the portion of them retained in the adult star-fish.
Eossil star-fishes have a very wide range. They are found among the earliest Silurian organic forms, but they scarcely bear any resemblance to existing genera. The Ophiuridse, fished up from the bottom of the North Atlantic, come nearest to them. Five genera are found in the Oolitic formation, all extinct ; three genera range from the Lias to the present seas ; and five genera be- longing to the Cretaceous period are represented by living species.
Echinodermata Crinoulea.
The Crinoid Echinoderms, or Stone-Lilies, are like a tulip or lily on an upright stem, which is firmly fixed
SECT. VI. ECHIN0DER3fA TA. 17^
to a substance at the bottom of the sea. During the Jurassic period, miniature forests of these beautiful ani- mals flourished on the surface of the Oolite strata, then under the ocean. Myriads of their fossil remains are entombed in the seas, and extensive strata of marble are chiefly composed of them. Their hollow joints are known in several parts of England as wheel stones, and as St. Cuthbert's beads on the Northumbrian coast, in honour of the patron saint of Holy Island, where they abound. The Crinoidea are of two kinds : the Encrinites, which chiefly flourished in the Palaeozoic period and are now represented by a minute species (Rhizocrinus Lofo- tensis) lately discovered on the coast of Norway by Professor Sars, have a smooth, cylindrical, jointed stem ; and the Pentacrinites, which began at the Lias, and have a five-sided jointed stem, the present representative of which is the Pentacrinus caput-Medusse, found in the West Indian seas.
The hollow, five-sided, calcareous, jointed stem of the living Pentacrinite is filled with a spongy substance, and supports a cup on its summit, containing the digestive organs, mouth, and tentacles of the animal. The cup is formed of a series of calcareous plates, and from its margin five long many-jointed rays diverge, each of which is divided into two-jointed branches. Groups of curled filaments, called cirri, are placed at regular dis- tances from the bottom of the stem to the extremity of the rays, while, on the opposite side of the rays, there are groups of feathery objects called pinnse at each joint. Food is caught by the tentacles and digested by the stomach and viscera at the bottom of the cup, from whence vessels diverge through a system of canals in the axes of the rays, pinnse, and down the stem, all of which convey sea-water mixed with nutritious liquid, for the nourishment of the animal.
The genus Comatula are star-fishes, believed to have
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alternately a fixed and a free state. Mr. J. V. Thomson discovered that the Pentacrinns Europsens is merely the fixed state of a Comatula. These star-fishes have pairs of pimiEG placed at regular distances along their long- jointed rays, and in the pinnse sacs containing eggs are placed as far as the fifteenth or twentieth pair. The eo-o«s yield active ciliated larvae, which attach themselves in the form of flat oval disks to corallines and sea-weeds. By degrees they develop a stem, about three-fourths of an inch high, with twenty-four distinct joints. Its ex- panded top bears five sulphur-coloured bifurcating rays with their pinnae and dorsal cirri. A mouth is formed in the centre with its tentacles, and a lateral prominent vent. The actual change of a Pen tacrine into a Co- matula has not been seen, but as the small Pentacrinites disapx^ear in September, at which season the Comatulse appear, it is believed that when full grown the top of the fixed Pentacrinite falls off and becomes a Comatula, which swims backwards with great activity by striking the water alternately with its long rays. The Penta- crinns caput-Medusee, which is fixed by its stem to sea- weeds and zoophytes, forms a most beautiful object for the lower magnifying powers when viewed in a fluid by a strong refracting light.
Echinodermata Echino'idea.
The family of Echinidse, commonly known as Sea-Eggs or Sea-TJrchins, have a beautiful but complicated struc- ture. The calcareous shell of an Echinus is a hollow spheroid with large circular openings at each pole. In the larger of the two, called the corona, the mouth of the animal is situated ; in the lesser circle the vent is placed. The spheroid itself is formed of ten bands extending in a meridional direction from the corona to the lower ring ; that is, from one jDolar circle to the other. Each band consists of a double row of pentagonal plates increasing
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in size from tlie poles to the equator, nicely dovetailed into one another, and the bands are neatly joined by a zigzag seam. Every alternate band is perforated by a double series of minute double holes for the passage of the tubular feet of the animal. The five perforated or ambulacral bands have rows of tubercules parallel to the series of feet holes, supporting spines movable in every direction. The ^yq imperforated bands are charac- terized by a greater number of spines, but there are none within the polar circles. The spines may be long rods, or merely prickles, or stout, club-shaped bodies, accord- ing to the genera.
The microscopic structure M^^^^i^^^-^lW^t^ of the shell of the Echinus P^0(yOmM^ is everywhere ih^ same ; it ^^^^([^(^^^^^ is composed of a network of ,(^^s(l^ (jr^ carbonate of lime, with a '"^ -^^^ A v«t >*w ^r\ n> very small quantity of ani- mal matter as a basis. In general, the network ex- '^
tends in layers united by ^'^■rportSlTfaSert^S""-' perpendicular pillars, but so
arranged that the open spaces, or meshes, in one layer correspond to the solid structure in the next.
The spheroid of the Echinus is covered with spines, and both outside and inside by a contractile and exten- sile transparent membrane, which supports the shelly plates at the poles, and dips between the bands but does not penetrate them. Its extensile nature admits of the addition of calcareous matter to the edges of the plates when the animal is increasing in size. The membrane lining the interior of the shelly globe is tough; it encloses the digestive organs, and forms a muscular lip to the mouth, which is armed with five triangular, sharp-pointed, white teeth, and surrounded by five pairs
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of pinnate tubular tentacles. The outer margin of the lip is fringed with a circle of snake-headed pedicellarise visible to the naked eye.
The five teeth, whose sharp tijDS meet in a point when closed, are triangular prisms, the inner edge is sharp and fit for cutting. Each tooth is planted upon a larger triangular socket, two sides of which are trans- versely grooved like a file, and as these two sides are in close contact with the sides of the opposite socket, the food when cut by the small teeth is ground down by the sockets, and a salivary secretion finishes the masti- cation. The sockets of the teeth are connected by ten additional solid pieces, placed two and two between them, which completes the pyramidal apparatus called Aristotle's lantern ; it consists of forty solid calcareous pieces arranged in fives, and moved by forty muscles at- tached to five calcareous ridges, and five arches near the internal edge of the corona.
Five pairs of these muscles when acting together protrude and retract the teeth ; when acting separately they draw them to one side or to the other ; five pairs separate the five teeth, five pairs shut them, and the remaining ^ve pairs work the bruising machine. The masticated food passes through a short gullet into the stomach, where it is digested, and the indigestible part is carried by an intestine to the vent in the smaller polar circle.
The smaller polar circle is formed of ten triangular plates, five are attached to the bands containing the feet holes, and five to the intermediate bands. The last five are perforated, and are the reproductive plates : the other five are also perforated for the discharge of the liquid that moves the tubular feet, and which, after having circulated in the body, is no longer of use. In five of these polar plates there are red specks, the rudi- ments of eyes, the only organs of sense these creatures
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seem to possess except that of touch and probably smell. The nervous system is a slender, equal- sided j)entagon round the gullet, from the sides of which five nerves are sent to the muscles of the mouth, and others, extending along the ambulacral or feet bands, end in nerve-centres under the eye-specks.
The mechanism for extending and retracting the feet by a liquid, is the same with that in the star- fishes, but the pores which admit the liquid into the feet are double. The tubular feet swell at their extremity into a fleshy sucker, within which there is a thin glassy reticulated rosette (fig. 139), of which fig. 140 is a highly mag- nified segment. It is perforated in the centre by a large round opening. The sea-urchins can stretch their feet beyond the spines, and by means of the suckers they can at- tach themselves even to smooth objects, or aided and directed by their spines they roll themselves along with a rotatory motion head downwards.
The circulation of the bright yellow blood is like that of the star-fishes. It is aerated both internally and externally. The external respiratory organs are short, branched, and highly vibratile bodies attached in pairs to thfi oval extremities of the fine imperforated bands.
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Fig. 139. Sucker-plate of Sea-Egg.
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Fig. 140. Section of a sucker -plate.
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There are pedicellarise scattered among the spines of the sea-urchins which are in constant motion, protruding themselves beyond the spines and withdrawing again, snapping their pincers, and grasping firmly anything that comes within their reach, or that is presented to them. The pedicellarise vary much in form and posi- tion in the different genera of the Echinidse ; but they invariably consist of a long, slender, calcareous stem, and generally tripartite head, the whole coated with a gela- tinous fibrous transparent substance. The head of the Pedicellaria globosa is a formidable weapon ; at the apex of each of its three serrated and toothed blades there is a strong sharp spine directed horizontally inwards, so that the three spines cross each other when the blades close, which they do so energetically that nothing could escape from such a grasp. The pedicellarise are curious microscopic objects; they are extremely irritable, and although their use is unknown, they must be essential to the well-being of the animals, since hundreds are scattered over their shells.
The spines of the Echinidse vary in shape and structure in the different genera and species. Those of the Scutella form merely a velvety pile. On the common sea urchin the spines are simple, and shed twice in the year ; those on the Amphidetus are both club and spoon- shaped ; and, on the Cidaris, they are large formidable clubs moved by a ball and socket. All the spines, what- ever their form may be, are moved in that manner ; for there are little tubercules on the surface of the shell on which a cup at the bottom of the spines is pressed down by the muscular skin which covers the shell and spines, and by its contractile power it enables the ani- mal to move the spines in any direction.
The microscopic structure of the calcareous spines is often beautifully symmetrical. Those of the Acrocladia mamillata consist of concentric alternate layers of net- work and sheaths of pillars ; so that a section of the
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ECHINODERMA TA.
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Fig. 141. Spine of Echinus miliaris.
spine perpendicular to its axis exhibits a succession of
concentric rings like those of an exogenous tree. The
cup at the bottom of the spine is
very dense network^ and the last
of a sheath of encircling pillars
form the ribs, sometimes seen on
the exterior of the spines.
The spines of the Echinus miliaris, of which fig. 141 repre- sents the segment of a section highly magnified, are fluted co- lumns of calcareous glass, the grooves of which are filled with solid glassy matter curved on the exterior. The innumerable hair- like objects attached to the shells of some of the Echinidse, the almost filamental spines of others, and the pedicellariee themselves, are formed of a regularly reticulated sub- stance. When the Echinidse are stripped of their spines and all their appendages, their shells show 2,400 plates united with the symmetry of a tesselated pavement.
The Echinidse are male and female, and the eggs are excluded through the five perforated productive plates at the posterior end of the shell. According to the observations of Prof. Fritz Miiller the embryo, soon after issuing from the
c^cfcr f.filrPQ Q -frkfrn vo-rvv/a Fig. 142. Pluteus of the Echinus: — a, mouth; e^^, ttlJtes d lUim lepre- ^^ stomach; c, echinoid disk ; d d d d,
sented (masfnified) in fio*. ^^"^ ^"^? °* *^® piuteusbody; e, cai-
^ o / & • careous framework ; /, ciUated lobes ;
142. 99 9 9y ciliated processes of the proboscis.
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All parts of this creature, which is called a Pluteus, are strengthened by a framework of calcareous rods tipped with orange colour, all the rest being transparent and colourless. It swims freely, back foremost, by means of its cilia.
While in this active state a circular disk (c, fig. 142), covering the stomach (6, fig. 142), appears within it, which gradually expands, and sends through the skin of
the Pluteus spines, pedicellarise, andtu- bercules, ultimately developed into hol- low feet. Then the feet are pushed out and drawn in, the pedicellarise (d, ^g. 143) snap their pin- cers ; and while the half-formedEchinus is making these mo- tions within the Pluteus, the mouth and gullet of the Pluteus itself are in constant activity ; and, while it swims about, the unformed Echinus within it gets a globular shape, the shell is formed, and when the Echinus is complete, the rest of the Pluteus is thrown off, and the young animal rolls away.
The free swimming larval zooids of the Echinodermata are generally hyaline, and some are phosphorescent. The Pluteus is also the larval zooid of the ophiurid star- fishes ; they may be seen in great numbers on the surface of the sea in August and September. The young star- fish is formed in them by a process analogous to that described. The motions of the Echinidse are reflex ; nothing indicates volition.
The fossil Echinidte first appeared in the lower Lud-
Fig. 143. Larvae of Echinus in various stages of development within the Pluteus, which is not represented : — b, disk with the first indication of the cirrhi ; c, disk with the origin of the spines between the cirrhi ; D, more advanced disk with the cirrhi, g, and spines, x, projecting from the surface.
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low limestone, and attained their maximum in the Creta- ceous strata. A species of Diadema, with annulated hol- low spines, common in the Chalk, still exists. Numerous species of the genus Cljpeaster, remarkable for their flattened form, and known as lake urchins, are peculiar to the Tertiary strata and existing seas ; and, lastly, five species of Spatangidse, heart-shaped urchins, which lived in the Tertiary periods, still exist. In consequence of the porous texture of the solid calcareous parts of the Echinidse, their fossil remains are commonly impregnated with pyrites or silex, without altering their organic structure, so that they exhibit a fracture like that of calcareous spar.
Echinodermata Holothuro'idea,
The Holothuridse, or Sea-Cucumbers, are of a higher organization than the preceding Echinoderms. They are soft, worm-shaped, five-sided animals, covered by a flexible, leathery integument or skin, in which are im- bedded a vast multitude of microscopic calcareous plates of reticulated structure. The mouth, which is placed at one end of the animal, is surrounded by ten bony plates forming a lantern, analogous to that of the Echinus; they support branching, tubular, and retractile tentacles, which encompass the mouth like a star. The tentacles are con- nected with sacs at their bases, and are extended and retracted by the injection of a watery liquid contained in them. Innumerable tubular, suctorial feet, precisely similar to those of the Echinus, are protruded and re- tracted through corresponding pores in the skin of the animal by a watery liquid, in sacs, at their bases. The water is supplied by a system of canals connected with an annularreservoir round the top of the guUet, which is sup- plied with water by a bottle-shaped bag at the mouth.
Besides transverse muscles, five pairs of muscles at- tached to the lantern at the mouth, extend throughout
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the whole length of the animal. Nerve-chords from the ring at the gullet accompany these, and such is the irri- tability of this muscular system, that the Holothurise eject their viscera w^hen alarmed or caught; but they have the power of reproducing them: sometimes they divide their whole body into parts.
The respiratory organs are two very long and beau- tifully arborescent tubes veined with capillary blood- vessels. The circulation of the blood is similar to that of the star-fishes, but more complicated.
The minute calcareous particles scattered indepen- dently in the tough leathery skin of the HolothuridsD remain as fine dust when the flesh is dissolved and washed away ; but, upon microscopic observation, Mr. Gosse found that the forms of these particles are re- markable for elegance, regularity, and variety of struc- ture, but that the normal form is an ellipse of open work built up of five pieces of a highly refractive, transparent, glassy material, having the shape of dumb-bells.
The Holothurise found under stones at low spring tides, on the British coasts, are small ; those dredged up from deep water are five or six inches long, and not unlike a well-grovm warty cucumber ; they do not form an ar- ticle of food in Europe, but they are highly esteemed by the inhabitants of the Indian Archipelago and in China, where many shiploads of the trepang are imported annually. It is a species that swarms in the lagoons of the coral islands, the reefs of the coral seas, and at Ma- dagascar. Some species are two feet long, and six or eight inches in circumference.
The order of the Holothuridse form eggs like all the other Echinoderms ; the larval zooid has the same form as that of the star-fishes, and changes its form twice, while the members of the Holothuria are forming within it ; at last they combine with those of the zooid, and no part is cast off.
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Fig. 144. Skeleton of S3^napta.
Echinodermata Synaptidce.
The Sjnaptidse are five-sided creatures, similar in structure to the Holothurise, though more worm-like. The whole order, which consists of the two genera of Syn- apta and Chirodota, have twelve calcareous plates round the mouth, five of which are perforated for the passage of the vascular water canals, which convey the liquid for the protrusion of the feet.
The calcareous particles imbedded in the skin of the genus Synapta are anchor-shaped spicules fixed to elliptical or oval plates, (fig. 144). The plates are reticulated and some- times leaf-shaped, and the flukes of the anchors are either plain or barbed. All the anchors are fixed transversely to the length of the animal, lying with great regularity in the inter- spaces of the longitudinal muscular bands. Some- times a thousand anchors are crowded into a square inch, each elegant in form, perfectly finished, and ar- ticulated to an anchor-plate, whose pattern as well as that of the anchor itself is characteristic of the species to which it belongs. In the Synapta digitata, which has four fingers and a small thumb on each of its twelve oval tentacles, the anchors are but just visible to the naked eye f in all the other species they are micro- scopic. Besides the anchors, the skin of the genus Synapta contains innumerable smaller particles, 'miliary plates,' which are crowded over the muscular bands. The muscular system of the Synapta digitata is so irritable that, on being touched, it divides itself into a number of
* Messrs. Woodward and Barrett on the Synapta. Trans, of Zoological Society, London.
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independent fragments, each of which keeps moving for a time, and ultimately becomes a perfect animal like its parent. Specimens of this Synapta have been fonnd on the southern coasts of England and in the West of Scotland, but the genus is rare, although containing several species in the British seas ; it is more common in the Adriatic; but they cannot be compared, as to size, with the great Synapta of Celebes, which is some- times a yard in length, and is known among the natives as the Sea Serpent.
The calcareous particles imbedded in the skin of the allied genus Chirodota are wheel-shaped when viewed
with a microscope (fig. 145) . One species is British, but they are mostly inhabitants of warm seas . In Chirodota violacea, a Mediterranean species, the skin is full of
Fig. 145. meeWjke Kates of Chirodota ^^^^^g ^f ^^^^^ ^j^-^ j^^^_
line wheels lying upon one another and connected by a fine thread. The wheels have five or six flat radiating spokes.^ The wheels are exceedingly small in the Chirodota Isevis, and are ar- ranged in groups ; in the C. myriotrochus they are im- bedded in myriads, as the name implies.
Echinodermata Sipunaulidce,
The Sipunculidse, which form the last order of the Echinoderms, consist of several genera of marine worm- shaped animals which burrow in the sand, and form a link between the Holothuridse and the true sea- worms. They have no calcareous particles in their flexible skins, nor have they any tubular feet, or special respiratory organs, but a vascular liquid is kept in motion in the
' ' The Microscope,' by Dr. Carpenter.
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internal cavity by the cilia with which it is lined. The mouth of the Sipunculus is a kind of proboscis with a circular fringed lip and two contractile vessels, supposed to serve for raising the fringes. An alimentary canal extends to the end of the animal, turns back again, and the intestine ends in a vent near the mouth, so that the creature need not leave its burrow and expose itself to enemies in order to eject the refuse of its food. The locomotive larval zooids from the rose-coloured eggs undergo two metamorphoses ; at last the young Sipunculus unites with the zooid, and no part is thrown off.
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SECTION YIL
THE CRUSTACEA.
The Crustacea are free, locomotive, articulated ani- mals, covered with a crust or external skeleton, and dis- tinguished bj having jointed limbs, and gills that fit them for aquatic respiration. Thej are male and female, and, though extremely diversified, they have a similarity in their general structure. Many are microscopic.
The Crustacea constitute ten orders, many genera, and innumerable species. The Decapods, or the ten- footed order, are by far the most complicated in organi- zation. They have prominent eyes, movable on jointed stalks, antennse, gills in a cavity on each side of the throat, a mouth opening into a digesting apparatus, a heart, liver, circulation of the blood, and a nervous sys- tem, and are therefore animals of a higher grade than any that have come under consideration.
The Decapods are divided into three tribes : — the Macrura, or long-tailed Crustacea, of vrhich the Lob- ster and Astacus fluviatilis, or fresh-water Crawfish, are types ; the Anomura, or tailless tribe, of which the Her- mit crab is the type ; and the Brachyura, or short-tailed crustaceans, which are represented by the common Crab. The greater number of these animals are marine ; some inhabit fresh water ; and some are amphibious, living in holes in the ground ; others climb reeds and bushes with their long claw-feet ; the last two kinds come to water to spawn.
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MacTura,
The body of the Macrura, or long-tailed crustaceans, consists of a number of segments or rings joined end to end, having jointed members on each side. Every indi- vidual joint is covered with a hard crust to afford support to the muscles. A certain number of the rings, which form the tail, are always distinct, similar, and movable on one another, whilst the remainder, which form the carapace or shell, are confluent so as entirely to obliterate the divisions. But generally the arrangement of these twenty-one rings is such that seven of them are confluent and form the head, seven confluent rings form the thorax or throat, and the seven non-confluent rings form the tail. In the Decapods the three last head rings greatly expanded are cemented to those of the thorax, so as to form the carapace or shell, which covers all the body of the animal except the tail. This struc- ture may be traced on the under-surface of the crab.
A ring consists of an upper and an under arch, with a space between them, so as to let the feet and other appendages pass through. In the long-tailed tribe the tail is bent and unbent by muscles attached to the under and upper surfaces of each ring, which give the tail a powerful motive force, for, by bending it suddenly under the body, and then as suddenly stretching it out, the animal darts backwards through the water.
The Decapods have five pairs of walking feet ; the front pair are claws employed to seize their prey, and occasionally for walking ; the other four pairs are cylin- drical, and end in sharp hooked points.
Brachyura,
The Brachyura surpass all the other Decapods in compactness and concentration, and are without excep-
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tion the highest of the Crustacea. Though apparently without a tail, they really have one, as their name implies ; but it is short, rudimentary, and folded under the posterior end of the carapace. The genera and species are exceedingly numerous, many swim and inhabit the deep oceans, others live on the coasts but never leave the water ; a numerous tribe live as much in the air as in the water, hiding themselves under stones and sea-weeds on the rocky coasts, while some dig holes for themselves in the sand, and the land crabs only come to the sea or to fresh-water lakes to spavni. The Brachyura have two claws, and are divided into the two chief families of walking and swimming crabs, according as their posterior pairs of legs end in a sharp horny nail, or a ciliated lamellar joint.
The great shell or carapace which covers the body varies in form with the genera ; it may be square, oval, or circular, longer than it is broad, or broader than it is long ; it may be straight or beaked between the eyes ; but its lateral edges always extend over the haunches of the feet. In the Cancri, or walking crabs, of which there are eighteen genera and many species, the carapace is generally much broader than it is long, and broader before than behind.
The carapace, or shell, of the common crab is too well known to require a particular description. The deep lines which indent it correspond with the limits of the internal organs ; the parts between the lines often bulge very much above the parts occupied by the stomach, heart, gill chamber, &c., but in the flat crabs these divisions are not so evident.
The compound eyes, which in all the crabs have hexagonal facettes, are on short jointed stems placed in deep and nearly circular orbits like cups, so that the stems are scarcely visible. These orbits, whose edges are sometimes smooth and sometimes notched, are so con-
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structed that the crab can bend the eje- stems horizon- tally to the right and left, and the front of the carapace either conceals the orbit, or forms the eyebrow.
In all crabs the antennae appear in front between the eyes. The first or interior pair are short, jointed, and capable of being bent into cavities, which contain their basal joints ; these cavities are near the eye orbits, with which they are connected in cer- tain species. Well-developed ears are placed in their basal joints. Fig. 146 represents a magnified ,^-_b^_ ear seen from behind, and Mr. %j^^^^K^ \MW> )) Gosse mentions that the large eatable crab, whether at rest or feeding, carries these antennse
, ^ T T ill J.1 ^iS- 146. Ear of Crab.
erect and elevated, always on the
watch, and either vibrating them, or incessantly striking
the water with them in a peculiar jerking manner.
The exterior or lower pair of antennse are always longer than the interior pair ; sometimes they are simple and similar to them, as in the flat crabs ; and sometimes they have jointed filaments at their extremities. In all the species they are attached to the under-side of the crab, and the organs of smell are openings at the point of junction between their second and third joints. These openings, which lead into the mouth, are covered by a membrane, and closed by a calcareous lid. Each lid is fastened by a little hinge to the side of its cavity, and is opened and shut by muscles fixed at the ex- tremity of a long tendon. Thus the lower antennse are the organs of smell, while the upper pair are the organs of hearing, and both are probably the organs of touch.
The mouth of the crab is on the under part of the head, its lips are horny plates, and it has a pair of mandibles to cut the food ; their action is from side to side. On each side of the mouth there are two pairs of
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jaws, followed by three pairs of foot-jaws ; so called because they are legs modified to serve as jaws, but in some crustaceans they are also instruments of loco- motion or prehension, and sometimes of both. The two last pairs have palpi, or feelers, at their base. All the jaws and foot-jaws, when not in use, are folded over the mouth ; the joints of the two last are so broad that they completely conceal this complicated apparatus.
Posterior to the mouth and its organs there is a flat broad plate, which forms the ventral side of the body, with a groove in its surface, into which the rudimentary tail is folded back, as in the Carcinus moenas (d, ^g, 148), and the feet are fixed by movable joints on each side of this sternal plate. The first pair, which are a little in advance of the others, and bend forwards in a curve towards each other, may be called hand-feet, as they occasionally serve for both. They have very thick short arms and swollen hands, having a curved finger and a thumb with a movable hinge, armed throughout their internal edge with a row of blunt teeth, and ter- minated by sharp points. Tlie other four pairs, which are the real walking feet, spread out on each side of the animal, and often bend a little backwards ; they are ra.ther thin, compressed, and end either in a horny nail, or flattened blade for swimming.
The gills, which are the breathing organs of the crabs and other Decapods, are spindle-shaped bundles of long, slender, four- sided pyramids, fixed by their points on each side of the mid line of the throat, so that they ex- tend in opposite directions, and their spreading bases fit and rest upon the vaulted sides of the carapace, or rather gill chambers, to the right and left. Each of the pyramids is formed of a multitude of parallel membra- nous cylinders fixed to the axis of the pyramid, and an infinity of capillary bloodvessels form a network in their surfaces.
The crab has nine of these bundles of gills in each
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gill chamber ; a few of them are shown hi fig. 147. Each gill chamber has two openings ; the water is admitted by a slit in the base of the claw feet, and ejected by another into the mouth. But the act of breathing is regulated by a plate on the second pair of jaws, so connected with the exterior pair of foot-jaws that, when the crab applies the latter to its mouth, the plate shuts the slit, the water in the gill chamber is ejected by the mouth, and in order to admit a fresh supply, the crab must open the foot-jaws
Pig. 147. Section of a Crab.
again, so that they are in constant motion. There are plates called whips on all the appendages of the crab, from the last pair of foot-jaws to the fourth pair of walking feet inclusive, which ascend and descend verti- cally between the bunches of gills to sweep particles of sand or other foreign matter out of them.
The heart of the crab, as in all the Decapods, is placed under the skin of the back next to the throat ; and the blood, which is white or bluish, flows from the heart through a complicated system of vessels, and, having
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nourislied the different organs, it is collected in reser- voirs at the base of the gills, is aerated while passing through them, and returns to the heart again.
The month oi)ens through a short gullet into a large globular stomach, from the walls of which calcareous toothed organs meet in the centre. One serves as an anvil, while the others bruise the food on it. Some of the long-tailed crustaceans can evert this apparatus and push it out of their mouth. The bruised food is lique- fied bj solvent juices from the liver and stomach, and the nutritious part enters the bloodvessels by imbi- bition.
The nervous system is condensed to suit the form of the crab. An oval nervous mass with a hole in its centre surrounds the gullet, from each side of which a nerve extends to a nerve-centre in the head. The organs of sense are as usual supplied with nerves from the latter, and, from the circumference of the massy ring, nerves radiate to every part of the animal, voluntary or reflex, as may be required.
Dr. Carpenter has proved, by microscopic observations, that the shell of the Decapod, in its most complete form, consists of three strata : the first is a horny structureless layer covering the exterior ; the second, a cellular stra- tum ; and the third is a laminated tubular substance. In the large, thick-walled crabs, as the Cancer pagu- rus, the three strata are most distinctly marked. The tubuli of the lowest layer rise up through the pigment stratum in little papillary elevations, which give the coloured parts of the shell a minutely speckled appear- ance. There are various deviations from this general plan. In many of the small crabs belonging to the genus Portunus, the whole substance of the shell below the structureless horny investment is made up of hexagonal, thick- walled cells; and in the prawns there are large stellate coloured cells.
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The eggs of the Brach^aira are attached by gluten to the false ciliated feet of the tail of the female, which being bent up under the body forms a temporary protec- tion till they are hatched. On leaving the egg the 3^oung have not the smallest resemblance to the parent ; it is only after the fourth moult that they even acquire the crab form. "When the young of our common shore crab, the Carcinus moenas, leaves the egg, it is scarcely half a line in length. The body is ovoid, the dorsal shield large and swelled (fig. 148, a). On the middle of its upper edge there is a long, hollow spine bending backwards, in
Fig. 148. Young of Carcinus mcenas in different stages of development:— a, fii-st stage : B, second stage ; c, third stage ; D, perfect form.
which the white blood may be seen to circulate with a sufiicient microscopic power. In front there is a pair of large sessile eyes, and the circumference of the pupils is marked by radiating lines : behind, there is a long, six-jointed tail, the last segment of which is forked and spined. On each side of the shield there is a pair of swimming feet attached to its waved margin. Fixed also to the margin, but in advance of these, there are three pairs of jointed feet ending in slender hairs. Im- mediately in front, between the eyes, there is a very long compressed appendage, which is bent backwards between the claws when the animal moves. Under each eye there
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is another appendage, shorter and rather more com- pressed. There are three pairs of claws, each composed of three joints, and ending in four long slender hairs : the claws stand at right angles to the body. The young, w^hen it escapes from the egg, is quite soft, but it rapidly hardens by the deposition of calcareous matter on its surface. The progress of the consolidation is shown by the circulation of the white blood in the hollow dorsal spine. When the creature is yet soft, the blood globules may be seen ascending to its apex ; but, as the consolida- tion advances, the circulation becomes more and more limited till at length it is confined to the base. This creature, whose shield is sap green and the rest trans- parent, swims with great activity, beating the water with his claws and tail. Such is the first stage in the life of the common shore crab. At this period the young of the Decapods bear a strong resemblance to one another, whether they are afterwards to become long or short tailed crustaceans.
After a time this creature loses its activity, moults, and is no longer to be recognised as the same, so great is the change (fig. 148, b). The dorsal spine has vanished, the shield has become flatter, its anterior part pointed, the eyes raised on stalks, and certain rudimentary or- gans that were below the eyes now form long antennse. The first pair of feet have got hands, the others are jointed and simple, except the last pair, which are still natatory : with these and with the tail, which is now much smaller, these creatures swim and congregate round sea-weeds and floating objects. After the third moult they have the form of a crab, though neither that of the genus nor species of the parent (fig. 148, c). The tail is folded under a square carapace, the four pairs of walking feet spread widely and laterally, while the great hand-feet attached to the anterior sides of the carapace stretch strai^-htforwards, the antennae are short, and the
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eye-stalks bent to the right and left. It requires several moults to bring this creature to its final size and form.^
Crabs sometimes die while moulting, and occasionally are unable to extricate a limb from its shell, and conse- quently lose it. But if a limb be fractured the}^ can cast it off at the second joint, and soon after a diminutive limb is formed, v^hich attains its full size at the next moult ; but if the crab has not strength enough to cast it off, it bleeds to death.
Anomnra.
The Anomura is a family of Decapods intermediate between the long and short- tailed Crustacea. There are nine or ten genera and many species, chiefly distin- guished by the development of the head and thorax, and the softness of a non-locomotive tail : of these the Pagurus, or Hermit crab, is assumed as the type or representative.
The carapace is long and convex, scarcely extending over the basal joints of the feet. The claw feet are short, with a very broad hand and sharp pincers ; but the Hermit crab and some of its congeners are irregu- larly formed ; for the last pair of walking feet, instead of being attached to the thorax, like the others, are fixed to the first part of the tail, are generally folded over the back, and are employed to sweep foreign matter out of the gills. The mouth and its masti- cating organs are similar to those in the crab, except the exterior pair of foot-jaws, which are longer and move like feet. But that which distinguishes the Pagurus and its fellows from every other Decapod is the softness of its unsymmetrical tail, all the appendages of which are abortive, and the extremity, instead of ending in a
2 'Mr. C. Spence Bate.
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swimming fin, terminates in a pair of grasping organs. In order to protect this soft-skinned tail, the Hermit crab folds it np and thrusts it into some old empty shell, clasps the column of the shell with its grasping organs, draws in the rest of its body, and covers it with the broad hands folded in such a manner as to close the mouth of the shell, and to defend itself if attacked. It holds so fast that it cannot be drawn out ; but, when in search of food, it stretches out its mailed head and legs, and walks off with its house on its back. However, it sometimes comes out of its shell to feed, and, like some other crustaceans, it holds its prey with one claw, and tears it to pieces with the other. They are very pug- nacious, and come out of their shells to die. The larvse of the Paguridse undergo transformation, and they moult when full grown.
Stomapoda.
The Stomapods are all swimmers; they have long- bodies with a carapace ; but it is so varied in form and size, that no general description of it can be given. They have external, instead of internal, organs of respi- ration ; gills in the form of tufts are in some cases attached to a few of the foot-jaws, but they are much more frequently fixed to the basal joints of their swim- ming feet, so that the blood in their capillary veins is aerated through their thin skin as they float in the water. In the Squilla mantis, or S. Desmarestii, mem- bers of a genus of this family, the gills, which are fixed to the basal joint of their last pair of feet, consist of a long conical tube, on each side of which there are numerous parallel tubes, like the pipes of an organ, and each of these has a row of many long cylindrical fila- ments that drag in the water. The mouth and its appendages are similar to those of the common Deca- pods, with the exception of the anterior jaw-feet, which
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are of a singular and formidable structure. They are bent outwards, and their basal joint is exceedingly large, broad, and compressed; the next joint is less, with a groove in its side; the third joint is a blade like a scythe, whose cutting edge is furnished with long pointed teeth. The Squillse are carnivorous, and, if any unfortunate animal comes within their grasp, they bend back the toothed edge of the first joint into the groove of the second joint like a clasp-knife, and cut it in two. These prehensile foot-jaws, or 'pattes ravisseurs,' are like the fore-feet of the praying Mantis, and like them weapons of defence.
The genus Mysis, or Opossum Shrimps, have a long straight carapace, which covers most of the thorax, and folds down on each side so as to conceal the base of the feet : in front it is narrow, and ends in a flattened beak ; at the posterior end it is deeply scooped out. The two last rings of the thorax are more or less exposed ; the tail is long, almost cylindrical, tapering to the end, and terminating in a swimming fin composed of five plates spread like a fan. Both pairs of antennse have jointed stems ending, the outer in one, the inner in two very long many -jointed filaments. On the top of the basal joint of the outer pair there is a very long lamellar appendage, ciliated on the side next the joint. Between the second and third joints of the exterior antennae, Mr. Spence Bate found the organ of taste : the aperture is simply covered by a membrane, as in the lobster. The ears are in the last appendage of the tail.
The Mysis has two pairs of jaw-feet differing little from feet ; five pairs of thoracic feet, all thin and divided into two branches, which increase in length as they are nearer the tail, and are all provided with a ciliated ap- pendage to adapt them for swimming. In the female, broad horny plates, attached to the two last pairs of legs, are bent under the body so as to form a kind of pouch, destined to lodge the eggs and the young during the
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first period of tlieir lives, whence their name, ' Opossum Shrimps ' : the young are crowded in this pouch, and acquire their adult form before they come into the water. The circulation of the white blood of the Mysis was discovered by Mr. Thompson : the pulsations of the heart are so rapid that they resemble vibrations. There are many species of these small shrimps.
The genus Lucifer is one of the most singular of the crustaceans from its almost linear form (fig. 149), the excessive length of the anterior part of the head, the extreme shortness of the thorax, the smallness of the
Fig. 149. Lucifer, a stomapod crustacean.
carapace or shell, and the great development of the tail, which is more than three times as long as the thorax. The thin eye- stalks, which are of exaggerated length, extend at right angles from the top of the long cylindri- cal part of the head, and terminate in large, staring, dark-coloured eyeballs covered with a multitude of fa- cettes. The two pairs of antennse are placed between and below the eye-stalks. The undermost pair, which are the shortest, have a little lamellar appendage at their base : in some Lucifers, when viewed in front, it looks like a cross. The salient mouth is placed at the base of the long organ that carries the eye-stems. It has strong toothed mandibles, two pairs of jaws with plates attached to each jaw, and three pairs of foot-jaws. The tail is very narrow, consisting as usual of seven rings movable on one another ; but they are quite abnormal, for each of the rings is at least as long as the thorax ; the last has
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five plates sprep^ding like a fan. All tlie bristly feet, which seem to hang loosely down from the animal, are fitted for swimming ; those of the tail have long ciliated plates in their basal joints. These creatures are small, and inhabitants of warm seas.
The Amphipods are very numerous, and abound in the British seas. They have long, slender, and many-jointed bodies which have no carapace : the tail in some genera is more fitted for swimming, in others for leaping. The Talitrus, or Sandhopper, common on every sandy shore in Europe, is a well-known example of the leaping genus. It is very small and exceedingly active. The upper an- tennse are very short, the inferior pair are large, and longer than the whole body. The anterior feet are thin and not prehensile. The first pair end in an immov- able claw ; the second pair have a kind of hand, and are folded beneath the body; the following feet end in a crooked nail. The appendages of the last three rings of the tail are thick and spiny, and the tail serves as a leaping organ.
The sandhoppers hide themselves between tidemarks in large communities under masses of wet sea- weeds, on which they feed. When disturbed they leap away with great agility, and bury themselves in the sand by dig- ging with their fore-feet, and kicking the sand away with their tail-feet. They have a strong sense of smell, for if a dead fish be buried in the sand, it is devoured by these little voracious animals in a few days.
In the fin-tailed genera the gills are suspended be- tween the bases of the thoracic legs : they swim lying on their side, and their feet are very varied in form, but always more or less furnished with spines and hairs.
There are several genera of Amphipods that are nest- building animals ; all have hooks at the end of their tails.
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The Ampliithoee enclose themselves in a cylindrical tube open at both ends. The animal is very active, running along the branches of the sea-weeds by means of its an- tennse instead of its feet, which remain within the tube. In general only the first pair of antennse are put out to catch prey. If the animal be prevented from advancing, it immediately turns its body within the tube, and pro- trudes its head from the other extremity.
Iso^oda.
The order of Isopoda are so called because of the sharp and equal claws of their walking feet, which are often prehensile. Their body is short and flat- tened, and their small head is almost always distinct from the throat. They are very numerous, and are di- vided into walking, swimming, and sedentary animals; the females have horny plates on some of their feet, which fold under the throat and form a pouch, in which the eggs are hatched.
The Oniscus, common Wood-louse, or Slater, is a ter- restrial Isopod. It is an oval jointed creature, which rolls itself into a ball when touched. The second of its six pairs of ]30sterior limbs perform the part of lungs : they contain hollow organs in their interior, into which the atmospheric air penetrates directly through openings in their exterior covering: so the Oniscus and its con- geners, which live on land, are drowned when put into water.
In the swimming Isopods, the five first pairs of tail- limbs are false feet, and are suspended under the tail. The gills, consisting of two great oval leaves, are fixed to them by a stalk; and are dragged through the water. This group is very numerous ; many live among the sea- weeds on the coasts, others perforate submerged wood in all directions, and live in the winding galleries they
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have formed. The Limnoria lignornm is particularly de- structive in the harbours on the British coasts, and in the locks of the canals. The tortuous holes it bores are from the fifteenth to the twentieth of an inch in diameter, and about two inches deep. The female Isopod is not more than a line or two in length, the male is a third less, and of a grey or greenish brown. These minute crea- tures bore their holes with their mandibles, which are so sharp and strong that they can penetrate the hardest wood, and appear to feed on it, from the quantity found in their stomachs. Their bodies are covered with pin- nated hairs, their antennae are short, and their posterior end or tail is rounded.
Most of the genus Cymothea are parasitical ; they can bend the sharp nail of the three first pairs of feet upon the preceding joint, so as to form hooks with which they fix themselves to the fishes on whose juices they feed.
The Isopods bear a strong resemblance, an almost identity of structure, with the Trilobites, a jointed race of Crustaceans long extinct. Some of the Isopods roll themselves into a ball, as these most ancient inhabitants of the ocean were wont to do ; whose large compound eyes are exactly like those of the Iso23ods ; whence it was inferred by Dr. Buckland, that neither the constitution of the sea nor the light of the sun had changed for in- numerable ages. The discovery of the Eozoon has proved that Nature has not varied during a period im- measurably prior even to that.
Entomostraca.
The Entomostraca form an immense group of the lower Crustacea, consisting of five orders. A vast number are just visible to the naked eye, and many are microscopic ; they teem in every climate along the coasts, and in the deep blue oceans. The horny coat,
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enclosing the minute bodies of these animals, is often so transparent that their internal structure, and occa- sionally the process of the assimilation of the food, is distinctly seen by the aid of a microscope. Small as they are, their beauty is often very great ; when transparent they sometimes radiate all the prismatic colours; when opaque, they are frequently of the most brilliant and varied hues, others shine with vivid phosphores- cent light. The segments of their bodies are often very numerous, and similar to one another ; but their appen- dages are very different. They form two distinct natural groups of the bristly-footed and gill-footed Crustacea.
Co;pejpoda,
The first order, Copepoda, or oar-footed tribe, have a distinctly articulated body formed of movable rings, bristly swimming limbs ; and the females carry their eggs in huge pouches suspended on each side of the posterior part of their bodies.
The Sapphirina fulgens is a beautiful example of the two-eyed tribe ; its body is nearly oval, divided into nine distinct joints, and so flat that it is almost folia- cious. The head has two brilliantly coloured eyes, with large cornea so connected with the shell that they look like spectacles. The two pairs of antennse are silky, and the last pair of foot-jaws that cover the mouth are garnished with silky plumes. It has five pairs of swim- ming feet, and the tail ends in two little plates.
The Sapphirina is about a line and a half long, of a rich sapphire blue, and floats on the surface of the Mediterranean and tropical oceans. It shines with the most brilliant phosphorescent colours, passing from deep blue to a golden green, or splendid purple. The brilliant colouring is seated in the layer of cells that secrete the firm substance of the body. With a micro-
SECT. VII.
CRUSTACEA.
20:
scope the cells are seen to pass alternately from one colour to another. There is a little three-lobed body between the eyes connected with the central nervous system by a small nerve ; it contains several corpuscules, which Professor Gegenbaur regards as the remains of the single eye of the larva which undergoes many trans- formations before it arrives at its adult form.
According to Professor Gegenbaur, the Sapphirina fulgens is a true Copepod and the Mediterranean Phyl- losoma is a Decapod, although it has a lacunar blood system.
Some genera of the order Copepoda inhabit salt water, others fresh, as the Cyclops quadricornis (fig. 150), which abounds in the water with which London is supplied.
The genus Cyclops is a type of the bristly-footed group, distinguished by a single compound eye placed in the middle of the forehead. The head and thorax are almost entirely co- vered with an oval j ointed buckler, which has an opening below to let the bristly limbs pass through (fig. 150); and the tail, which is ^yq- j ointed, ends in two plates furnished with bristly plumes. It is traversed by the intestine, which ends near its extremity. The brilliant little eye in front
Fig. 150. Female Cyclops:— a, body ; b, tail ; c, an- tenna ; d, antennule ; e, feet ; /, plumose setag of tail ; B, taU, with external egg-sacs ; c, D, E, F, G, successive stages of development of young.
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consists of a nnmber of simple eyes placed under one glassy cornea. It rests upon tlie base of a cone of mus- cular fibres, which give it a movement of rotation upon its centre. Its upper pair of antennse, situated below the eye, spread to the right and left. In the female they have numerous joints with a bristle at each joint; the lower pair of antennse are short-jointed and bristled. The mouth of the Cyclops has a pair of jaws, and two pairs of foot- jaws covered with bristles. The five pairs of branching legs, which are fitted for swimming, are thickly beset with plumose tufts. In the female the egg-sacs are hung on each side of the tail (b, fig. 150) by a slender tube, through which the eggs pass from the ovary within the mother into the sacs where they are deposited in rows, and there they remain till hatched. When the larvse come into the water the sacs drop off, and the young undergo various changes before coming to ma- turity, as shown in fig. 150. The Cyclops swims with great activity, striking the water with its antennae, feet, and tail ; and the rapid movement of its foot-jaws makes a whirlpool in the water which brings minute animal- cules to its mouth, and even its own larvse, to be devoured. Some species of the Calanus, a marine genus of the one-eyed group, are eminently social. Professor Dana found that the colour of those vast areas of what the sailors call bloody water, met with off the coast of Chili, was owing to shoals of the Calanus pontilla ; and another immense area of bloody water he met with in the North Pacific was owing to a vast multitude of the Calanus sanguineus. Although this genus abounds more in individuals in the temperate seas, the sjpecies are more varied in the tropical. Those figured and described in Captain Maury's works were mostly micro- scopic and very beautiful ; one fished up was grey with a bunch of yellow feathers at the end of its tail. The egg-bags were purple, another was green marked with
SECT. Yir. CRUSTACEA. 207
scarlet tufted antennse longer than itself spread ont at rio'ht ano'les from its liead. This creatnre shone with a bright phosphorescent light, visible even when a candle was burning. These and many more were taken in tropi- cal seas. They were remarkable for the length of their antennae ; and it was observed that no eyes were per- ceptible in such Crustacea as had these exaggerated antennae ; these organs of intelligence and warning were probably sufficient for their wants. When animals live without eyes on the surface of a tropical sea, it is quite conceivable that similar instruments of touch may suffice for those who live in the dark abyss below.
The Ostrapods, which form the second order of the bristly-footed Crustacea, are defended by a bivalve carapace ; they have swimming limbs and a confluent eye ; that is, a number of simple eyes placed under a glassy cornea.
The genus Cypris belongs to this group. Several species may be seen swimming in our streams and fresh- water pools. The body of the common VA , ' '
Cyi^ris (fig. 151) is ^.. ,^ ^.
enclosed between two \\%JV'
flat oval shells, united \wu^
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to the shells, which
are much curved above and rather flat below. There
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filaments. One pair ]Drojects forward and then bends
gracefully backwards; the other pair are bent down-
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wards. The mouth has no foot-jaws, and there are only two pairs of feet. Only one pair is seen in the fe- male, for the other pair is bent upwards to support the egg sacs. The Cypris attaches her eggs to the leaves of aquatic plants by a greenish fibre. Not more than twenty or thirty eggs are deposited by one individual, while the heaps contain several hundreds ; so many fe- males contribute to form one heap. The young are hatched in the form of their parent in about four days and a half. As the pools dry up, the Cyprides bury themselves in the sand or mud at the bottom ; if that
Fig. 152. Section of Daplinia pules.
remain moist they survive, if it becomes dry they perish ; but the eggs remain dormant till the return of rain, when they are hatched, and the surface of the water is soon crowded with a swarm of young Cyprides.
The Cladocera is the first order of the gill-footed Crustacea : their body is defended by a bivalve carapace ; they have from four to six gill-footed limbs, one com- pound eye, and two pairs of antemise, one pair of which is large and adapted for swimming. The Daphnia pulex, or Arborescent Water-flea, of which fig. 152 is a sec- tion, is a common form of this tribe. It is very abundant
SECT. VII. CRUSTACEA. 209
in pools and ditches, coining in groups to the surface in the mornings and evenings in cloudy w^eather. The bivalve shell is transparent, flexible, and open belov^ ; it ends behind in sharp toothed peaks. The eye placed in front is moved by four muscles, and on each side of it are the great antennse, v^hich are jointed, branched, and garnished with feathery filaments, and are the chief organs of locomotion. This animal has no foot-jaws, but it has a nervous system and a heart, whose pulsa- tions are repeated two or three hundred times in a minute, and the blood is aerated by gills at the extre- mities of six pairs of bristly feet situated behind the mouth, and only used for respiration and prehension.
The eggs, when laid, are deposited in a receptacle between the back and the shell of the female Daph- nia, and after the young come into the water they undergo no transformations. Between each brood the Daphnia moults, and the egg receptacle is thrown off with the exuvia. After several changes of skin the young Daphnise come to maturity and lay eggs, which pro- duce successive generations of females throughout the spring and summer ; but in the autumn males appear, and then the eggs are retained in the receptacle of the female and are not hatched till spring. If the female should moult after this, the case with the eggs in it is cast off with her outer skin, which then becomes a pro- tection to the eggs during the winter, and they are hatched in spring, producing females.
Fhyllopoda,
The second order of gill-footed Crustacea are called Phyllopoda, because they have gills like the leaves of a book attached to their lamelliform swimming feet. Their bodies are divided into many segments, and they form two groups, one of which has a carapace, the
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other has not. The Apus cancriformis is an example of the first. It is about two inches and a half long, and is a large animal compared with the others of its class. Its head and thorax are covered by an oval carapace, and its cylindrical body is composed of thirty articulations. It has a compound movable eye in the middle of its forehead, and a sessile eye on each side of it. All the members that follow the apparatus of the mouth have a foliaceous form, and are in constant motion even when the animal is at rest. The Apus has sixty pairs of jointed legs; the number of joints in these and in the other appendages is estimated to be not less than two millions. However, the instruments chiefly used for locomotion are the first pair of feet, which are very long and serve for oars ; with these the animal can swim freely in any position, but when they are at rest it floats on the surface of the stagnant water in which it lives, and the fin feet maintain a constant whirlpool in the water, which brings the small animals on which it feeds to its mouth.
The BranchiiDCs stagnalis, which may be taken as a type of the second order, has a perfectly transparent segmented body nearly an inch long, eleven pairs of pale red gill-feet, antennae of bluish green, and a long tail ending in red bristles. The head has two large eyes on movable stems, and a sessile black oculus be- tween them. Filiform antennse spring from the upper part of the head ; the other pair, like two large horns, are turned downwards. The last ring of the swimming tail has two plates with ciliated appendages.
The Artemia salina differs \Qvy little from the Bran- chipes. It abounds so much in the brine pans at Lymington and other salt works, as to give a red tinge to the nearly concentrated brine, the temperature of which is so high that no other animal could live for a moment in it.
SECT. VII, CRUSTACEA, 211
Pycnogonoidea or Spider Grabs,
Some of the Spider crabs liook themselves to fishes, while others live Tinder stones, or sprawl vnth their long hairy legs over sea-weeds, and feed on the gelatinous matter these weeds afford. The throat with its mem- bers, and the head soldered to its first ring, forms nearly the whole animal. It has a pair of antennsa and fonr rudimentary eyes, set on a tubercule. A proboscis- like projection extends from the front ; ih.Q mouth is fur- nished with cilia and one pair of foot-jaws. Four pairs oflong hairy legs proceed fi-om the throat, spread widely on each side, and end in a hooked claw. The stomach, which occupies the centre of the animal, sends off five pairs oflong closed tubes like rays ; one pair enters the foot-jaws, the others penetrate the legs. This digesting system is in a state of perpetual vermicular motion, which, as well as the movements of the animal itself, aerate its transparent blood through the skin, by keeping it in circulation. So this insignificant-looking creature has a very curious and complicated mechanism.^
Fossil Crustacea,
Analogues to the Anomura are found in the Chalk formation, but the Macrura are the prevailing forms. Extinct species of lobster, crawfish, and shrimps are met with in the secondary strata, from the Chalk to the Coal measures. In the Coal formation all these higher forms disappear, but then the gigantic King Crab, or Limulus, is found accompanied by the minute Entomo- stracan forms in infinite variety of species.
^ ' Histoire natiirelle des Crustaces/ par M. Milne-Edwards.
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Epizoa, or Suctorial Crustacea,
The Epizoa infest the skin, eyes, and gills of fishes. Many of them in their adult state bear a. strong resem- blance to the lowest of the Crustacea ; but, in general, the resemblance between these two classes of animals can only be traced during the extraordinary changes which the Epizoa undergo in their early life, and they differ so much in their perfect state that it is wonderful any connection should ever have been discovered be- tween them. The Epizoa are extremely varied in their perfect forms, and the class generally is supposed to be more numerous than the whole race of fishes. In the lower orders of the Epizoa the mouth is suctorial ; the higher orders adhere to their victim by jointed mandibles ending in hooks. The Epizoa are male and female : the male is small and free, the female is fixed, and generally has a pair of long egg-sacs hanghig from her body.
SECT. VIII
CIRRIPEDIA,
213
SECTIO]^ YIII.
CIREIPEDIA.
The metamorplioses of the Cirripeds, and their resem- blance to the lower Crustacea at each moult, are still more remarkable than those of the Epizoa. Thej form two primary groups, the Balanidse, or Acorn shells, and the Barnacles or Lepadidse, which have peduncles or stalks. Both are parasites, but they do not draw their sustenance from the substances they adhere to.
The Balanidse (fig. 153) are grouped in innumerable multitudes, crowded together on the rocks of the southern and westei^n coasts of England, like brown acorns. They have an ob- scurely articulated body, enclosed in a membrane, and defended by a multivalve conical shell. The base of the shell is a broad disk fixed to a foreign substance by a cement secreted by the animal. The walls consist of twelve triangular com- partments. Six rise upright from the edge of the disk, and end in a point at the open margin of the shell ; the other six are inverted and wedged into the interstices. The whole cone thus constructed is divided into from four to eight pieces by expansive seams. The mouth of the cone is closed by a lid formed of four triangular valves, which meet in a point in the centre, and shut in the creature.
Fig. 153. Balanus culcatus.
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Six pairs of long, slender, curly feet rise from tlie throat of tlie animal, and bend over the prominent mouth, which is placed at the bottom of a kind of funnel, formed by the divergence of these six pairs of thoracic feet. It is furnished with a broad upper lip, two palpi, and three pairs of jaws, of which the outermost are horny and toothed, the innermost soft and fleshy. Each foot is di- vided into two similar many- jointed branches : the shortest pair is nearest to the mouth, the others increase gradually in length and number of joints to the most distant (fig. 154). Mr. Gosse estimated that, in a specimen he possessed, the whole apparatus included nearly five hundred dis- tinct articulations. Since each joint is moved by its own system of muscles, the per- fection of the mechanism may be conceived. But it is as sensitive as flexible, for every separate joint is fur- nished with a system of spinous hairs, which are no doubt organs of touch, since the whole of the branches are supplied with nerves. These hairs, which extend at somewhat wide angles from the axis of the curling filaments, are barbed, for they have numerous projec- tions, or shoulders, surrounded by whorls of micro- scopic hairs.''
This beautiful and complicated structure is the fishing apparatus of the animal, which it is continually pushing out and drawing in through the valved lid of the shell. When the whole is thrown out it is widely spread, and
Fig. 154.
Tentacles or feet of the Balanus.
* ' Evenings at the Microscope,' by Mr. Gosse.
SECT. VIII.
CIRRIPEDIA,
215
tlie filaments uncurled ; then, as they close again, the in- numerable hairs meet and form a sieve through which the water escapes, but whatever minute particles it may contain are inextricably entangled, and when the small animals fit for food have been selected, the filaments curl inwards, and carry them to the mouth ; there they are seized by the jaws and sent through a short gullet to be digested.
The feet and cirri are moved by very strong muscles, the valves of the lid are opened and shut by muscles at- tached to the mouth of the shell ; and when the animal wishes to protrude its cirrhated feet, the longitudinal muscles attached to the lid come into action, and it draws itself in again by short muscles attached to the base. All the organs of the animal are supplied with nerves by a double nerve-centre in the head, and a circle of nerve-centres round the gullet. The ears are situated at the base of the first pair of cirrhated feet, and consist of a cavity enclosing a vesicle closed by a nerve, and contain- ing a liquid, but no otolites.
The common Lepas anatifera, of which fig. 155 is a section, as well as its allies, have a thick stem and a conical shell closed on the back, but gaping in front. Their internal struc- ture does not differ essentially from that of the Balanidse, and it has been proved by Mr. J. Y. Thompson and others, that there is no material dif- ference between their transformations during the early stages of their lives.
Each individual cirriped is both male and female, and the eggs are hatched before they come into the water. Mr. Gosse mentions that he had seen the Balanus porcatus throw out a dense column
Section of Lepas anatifera.
Fig. 155.
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CIRRIPEDIA.
PART III.
of atoms from the moutli of its sliell for several suc- cessive days ; each column was composed of thousands of active microscopic creatures, bearing a strong simi- larity to the young of the Cyclops Crustacea. A, fig. 156, represents one of these creatures. Its body is enclosed in a carapace with a pair of flexible organs like horns, six swimming feet, and a very black eye deeply set In front. The creature swims and sometimes rests, but never alights on anything. After some changes this
Fig. 156. Development of Balanus balanoides :— A, earliest form ; b, larva after second moTilt ; c, side view of the same ; d, stage preceding the loss of activity ; a, stomach ; b, nucleus of future attachment.
creature takes a form whose front is represented at B, and its side by c, fig. 156. It is larger, more deve- loped, and swims with its back downwards.
A new series of transformations changes this embryo into the form represented by d, fig. 156, which is closely allied to the Daphnia pulex, or Water Flea. The body is enclosed between two flat oval shells, united by a hinge on the back, and is capable of being opened in front for
SECT. VIII, CIRRIPEDIA. 217
the protrusion of a pair of prehensile limbs; and six pairs of swimming feet cause the animal to swim by a succes- sion of bounds. Instead of the single eye, it has now two raised on pedestals, attached to the anterior part of the body.
This animal having selected a piece of floating wood for its permanent abode, attaches itself to it by the head, which is immovably fixed by a tenacious glue ex- uded from glands at the base of the antennae. The bivalve shell is subsequently thrown off, a portion of the head becomes excessively elongated to form the peduncle of the Barnacle or Lepas, and in that state it is exactly
Fig. 157. Lepas.
like the Lucifer Stomapod. In the Balanus, on the con- trary, the head expands into a broad disk of adhesion, and the animal resembles the Mysis or Opossum Shrimp.
From the first segment of the throat a prolongation is sent backwards which covers the whole body, and the outer layer is converted into the multivalve shell ; and the three pairs of cirrhated feet, which were formed in the larval state, now bend backwards from the other three rings of the throat.
Though the Cirripeds lose their eyes in their mature state, they are sensitive to light. They draw in their cirrhated feet, and the Balanus even closes the lid of its shell under the shadow of a passing cloud.
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SECTION IX.
BRTOZOA, OR POLYZOA.
A Brtozoon is a microscopic polype, inclosed in an open horny or calcareous sheath, out of which it can protrude and draw in the anterior part of its body. It is seldom or never seen alone, on account of its tendency to propagate by budding. When the buds spring from the sides of the sheath or cell, it is known as the Sea Mat, or Flustra. The Flustra, which is common on our coasts, spreads its hexagonal cells like a delicate net- work oyer sea- weeds, shells and other marine substances. Sometimes the polypes are so closely arranged on both sides of a leaf that a square inch may contain 1,800. In the calcareous genera, Eschara and Cellipora, the cells have a lid movable by two muscles, so that the polypes can close the orifice, and shut themselves in.
In the greater number of the Polyzoa the polype has a cylindrical form, a mouth at its anterior extre- mity surrounded by an annular disk, which forms the roof of the internal cavity containing the stomach and the other digestive organs. The disk is furnished with eight, ten or a greater number of tubular tentacles, which surround the mouth, their tubes being continua- tions of the internal cavity below. The mouth leads into a funnel-shaped space, separated by a valve from the gullet ; and the guUet ends in a capacious stomach. Short vibratile cilia are arranged like a fringe on the opposite sides of each tentacle, which form two currents
SECT. IX.
JPOLYZOA.
219
in the surrounding water — an ascending stream on the outside, and a descending one on the inside. When any particles of food that may be carried down the inner surface of the tentacles arrive at the mouth, a selection is made, the rejected particles being carried off" by the stream, while those that are chosen are received by the funnel-shaped mouth, and pass through a valve in the gullet into the stomach, where they are kept in con- tinual motion by cilia, and the refuse is ejected by an orifice near the mouth.
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Fig. T58. Cells of Lepralige.— A, L. Hyndmanni ; b, L. figularis ; c, L. verrucosa.
rig. 158 represents the cells of different species of the genus Lepralia, which form crusts upon marine objects. Other genera grow as independent plant-like structures, and some take an arborescent form, and creep over rocks and stones. The Cellularia ciliata, of which fig. 159 is a magnifi.ed portion, rises in upright branching groups like little shrubs ; and as many are commonly assembled together, they form miniature groves, fringing the sides of dark rocky sea pools on our coasts. Most of the
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TOLYZOA.
PART III.
Polyzoa liave pedicellarise attached to their stems, either sessile or stalked. Their forms are various : a jointed spine, a pair of pincers, &c. But on the Cellularia thej are like a bird's head with a crooked beak, opening very- wide, and attached by a stem, b, fig. 159, represents a highly magnified pedicellaria in the act of seizing another. These bird's head appendages are numerous
Fig. 159. A, Cellularia ciliata ; b, ' bird's head ' process of Bugula avicularia, liigMy magnified, seizing another.
on the Cellularia ciliata, and in constant motion ; the jaws are perpetually snapping little worms, or anything that comes in their way, while the whole head nods rhythmically on its stalk. Two sets of muscles move the jaws ; when open, a pencil of bristles projects beyond them, which is drawn in again when they are closed ; they are supposed to be organs of feeling. The Polyzoa
SECT. IX. FOLYZOA, 221
have organs also called vibracnla, which, are bristle- shaped, as on A, fig. 158; these sweep over the surface of the Poljzoon to remove anything that might injure the polypes.
It is believed that the polypes of the Polyzoa are male and female, and that the ciliated locomotive larvse which appear in spring are developed from eggs. The fresh-water Polyzoa are as worthy of microscopic exami- nation as the marine.
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TUNIC AT A, OR ASCIDIANS.
PAET III.
SECTION X.
The form of the Tunicata is irregular. Tliey have two orifices — one at the top, for the entrance of a cur- rent of water, and another at one side for its egress. They have two tunics only adhering to one another at the edges of these orifices, which are furnished with a circle of cilia. The irregular or scattered condition of the nerve-centres, as well as the alternation in the cir- culation, are eminently characteristic of the whole class. They consist of three distinct groups : the compound or social gelatinous Ascidians ; the solitary Tunicata, with leathery coats ; and the Salpse, which are gelatinous. The two first, though mobile when young, become fixed when they arrive at maturity ; the third floats free on the surface of the ocean.
The fixed gelatinous Ascidians resemble the Polyzoa in structure and tendency to gemmation ; never- theless, they differ in their circu- lating and respiratory systems. The Perophora Listeri is an examj)le which is found on the south coast of England and Ireland (fig. 160.) It consists of minute globes of clear jelly, not larger than a pin's head, spotted with orange and brown,
Fig. 160. Magnified group of Perophora.
SECT. X.
TUNIC AT A, OR ASCIDIANS.
223
and attached by a foot-stalk to a silvery stem like a thread which stretches over the surface of stones, or twines round the stalks of sea- weeds ; and as the stem increases in length, buds spring from it, which in time come to maturity, so that the silvery thread connects a large community ; but, though thus connected, every member has its own individuality. Fig. 161 repre- sents one of these transparent individuals very highly magnified.
The respiratory sac occupies the upper part of the body. It is perforated by four rows of narrow slits, edged with cilia, whose vibrations are distinctly seen through the transpa- rent tunic of the little animal. A portion of the water which is drawn by the cilia into the upper orifice or mouth, passes into the respiratory sac, escapes through the narrow slits into the space between the sac and the tunic, and from thence into the stomach, where any particles of food it may bring are digested, and the refuse is carried by the current through the intestinal canal, and ejected at the lateral orifice.
The heart is a long multiform muscle, attached to the respiratory sac, from whence capillary vessels spread over that sac and throughout the body. The pulsations of the heart drive the blood through the general system, and bring it back to the heart again. After a time the pulses of the heart become faint, and the blood ceases
Fig, 161. Highly magnified Perophora.
224 TUNICATA, OH, ASCIDIANS. pakt iii.
to flow. A short pause takes place, the heart gives an opposite impulse, and the blood makes its circuit in a direction exactly contrary to what it did before. The circulation in all these little globes is brought into con- nection by a simultaneous circulation through two tubes in the silvery thread to which they are attached.
The average duration of the ebb and flow of the blood is probably the same, but the period between the changes varies from thirty seconds to two minutes. As the blood is colourless and transparent, it probably would have been impossible to determine its motion had it not been for solid particles floating in it.
The larva of the compound sessile Ascidians is like the tadpole of a frog, which swims about for a time ; it then fix:es itself by the head to some object, the tail falls ofiF, and in a few days it becomes a solitary Ascidian, with its two orifices and currents of water. This soli- tary animal gives origin by budding to a connected group, which in its turn lays fertilized eggs, so that there is an alternation of generations.
The Botryllidse or Star-like Ascidians, appear as masses of highly coloured gelatinous matter, spread over stones or fuci in which from ten to twenty minute oblong As- cidians are arranged in a circle round a common open centre which is the discharging orifice of the whole group, for the mouth of each individual is at the oppo- site extremity. The only indication of life given by this compound creature is the expansion and contraction of an elastic band surrounding the discharging orifice. The organization of each of these individuals is similar to that of the Perophora.
Although many Tunicata form composite societies, the most numerous and largest in size are always soli- tary, as the Ascidia virginea (fig. 162). Its outer tunic contains cellulose, it is pale and semitransparent, the inner tunic is orange-coloured or crimson. These
ciaia virgiuea.
SECT. X. FLOATING ASCIDIANS. 225
creatures vary in length from one to six inches : there- fore thej are not microscopic, yet their internal struc- ture, which is similar to that described, cannot be ' ^;
determined without the aid [^ '^
of that instrument. The organ of hearing is a cap- sule containing an otolite and coloured spots placed between the orifices ; the uppermost orifice or mouth is surrounded by eight eye- specks, and six of a deep orange colour surround the
lateral one, a nerve-centre between the two supplies the animal with nerves. These Tunicata live on diatoms and morsels, of sea-weeds, and, like all the fixed Ascidians, they show no external sign of vitality except that of opening and shutting the two orifices. More than fifty species of these solitary Ascidians in- habit the British coasts from low-water mark to a depth of more than one hundred fathoms.
The Pyrosomidee are floating compound Ascidians, composed of innumerable individual animals united side by side, and grouped in whorls so as to form a hollow tube or cylinder open at one end only, and from two to fourteen inches long, ^vith a circumference varying from half an inch to three inches. The inhalent orifices of the component animals are all on the exterior of the cylinder, while the exhalent orifices are all on its inside, and the result of so many little currents of water dis- charged into the cavity is to produce one general outflow which impels the cylinder to float with its closed end
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foremost. The side of each annual in which the nerve- centre is placed is turned towards the open end of the cylinder, the whole of which is cartilaginous and non- contractile. Each of the Ascidians forming this com- pound creature has its outer and inner tunic united and lined with a vascular blood system, a respiratory cavity of large size completely enclosed by a quadrangular net- work, and digesting organs. The sexes are combined, and they are propagated by buds and single eggs. The Pyrosomidse are gregarious and higlily luminous ; vast shoals of them extend for miles in the warm latitudes of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and as soon as the shade of night comes on they illuminate ships with bright electric flashes as they cleave the gelatinous mass ; half a dozen of these animals give sufficient light to ren- der the adjacent objects visible. The intensity depends upon muscular excitement, for Professor Fritz MuUer observed that the greenish blue light of the P^^rosoma Atlantica is given out in a spark by each of the separate individuals ; it first appears at the point touched, and then spreads over the whole compound animal. This species a^^pears in such aggregations in the Mediter- ranean as to clog the nets of the fishermen.
8alpidce,
The Salpidse are another family of free- swimming Ascidians. The tunic is perfectly hyaline, the body is somewhat cylindrical, but compressed and open at both ends (fig. 163). The mouth is a slit, the dis- charging orifice is tubular and can be opened and shut. The breathing apparatus is in the form of a ribbon ex- tending obliquely across the cavity of the tunic, the ear with four otolites is in the ventral fold, and the flux of the pale blood is alternate as in other Tunicata.
The Salpidse are produced by alternate generation.
SECT. X.
FLOATING ASCIDIANS.
227
A solitary floating Salpa is always found to contain a chain of embryos joined end to end winding spirally
Fig. 163. Salpa maxima.
wittdn her. They are all of one size, and portions are liberated in succession through an apertm^e in the tunic. In a little time these connected larvae are developed into a chain of adult Salpse. The individuals are from half an inch to several inches long, according to the
Fig. 164. Young of Salpa zonaria.
species, and when joined end to end the chain may ex- tend many feet, but the attachment is so slight that they often break up into shorter portions. The chains swim with an undulating serpentine motion either end foremost by the simultaneous expulsion of water from the muscular tunic of each individual.
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228 FLOATING ASCIDIANS. paet iii.
formed by eacli of these creatures, which remains within the parent till a solitaiy Salpa is hatched, and then it comes into the water, and after a time produces a chain of larvae.
The aggregate young of the Salpa zonaria, instead of being united end to end, are applied side to side, and as the individuals are broad at one extremity and nar- row at the other, they constitute groups continually diminishing in size, which take a spiral form.
The reproduction of the whole genus of Salpidae is rapid and enormous. Dr. Wallich mentions that while sailing between the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena, the ship passed for many miles through water so crowded with the Salpa mucronata that it had the appearance of jelly to apparently a great depth. The Salpse, which were from one to two inches long, had yellow digestive cavities, about the size of a millet seed, which contained diatoms, Foraminifera, Polycystinse, small shrimps, arid other microscopic creatures.
SECT. XI. MOLLUSC A. 229
SECTION XI.
MOLLUSCA.
Although the MoUusca do not come within the limits of this work they nevertheless afford objects worthy of microscopic investigation. The gills of a bivalve mol- lusk are like crescent-shaped leaves fixed by their stalks to the transverse extremities of the mantle, so that the greater part floats freely in the water.
To the naked eye the gills appear to be formed of radiating fibres of admirable structure ; but the micro- scope shows that each leaf consists of a vast number of straight transparent and tubular filaments, arranged side by side so close that 1,500 of them might be contained in the length of an inch. These filaments, however, apparently so numerous, in fact consist of only one ex- ceedingly long filament in each giU^ bent upon itself again and again throughout its whole length, both at the fixed and free ends of the leaf. These long filaments are fringed on both sides by lines of cilia continually vibrating in contrary directions. By this action a cur- rent of water is perpetually made to flow up one side of the filaments and down the other, so that the blood which circulates in their interior is exposed tlu'oughout their long winding course to the action of oxygen in the water. The duration of these vibrations in the mollusca is marvellous. The cilia on a fragment of a gill put into water by Mr. Gosse fifteen hours after the death of the mollusk caused a wave to flow uniformly up one
230 MOLLUSC A. PART III.
side of the filaments and down the other. Even twenty- hours after the death of the animal the ciliary motion was continued on such j^arts as were not corrupted, a remarkable instance of the inherent contractility of the animal tissues.
The refined mechanism of the gills of the common Mussel enables it to live when attached to rocks above high-water mark, so as only to be immersed at spring tides. By the movements of cilia, water is retained in the gill-chamber, which derives oxygen from the at- mosphere, and animalcula supply the Mussel with food.
The moUusks that burrow in sand or mud have two tubes fringed with cilia, which they protrude into the water above them. The water which is drawn into one of these tubes by the action of the cilia passes in
rig. 1G5. Cardium or Cockle.
a strong current over the gills, aerates the blood, brings infusorial food for the animal, and is expelled in a jet from the other tube. The foot at the other extremity of the shell is the organ with which the mollusk makes its burrow in sand, clay, chalk, stone or wood.^
The common Cockle digs into the sand, and uses its foot both for digging and lea^Ding ; it is cylindrical, and when the Cockle is going to leap, it puts out its foot and
^ Jeffrey's ' British Conchology.'
SECT. XI.
MOLLUSC A.
231
bends it into an elbow ; then having- fixed the hooked point firmly in the sand, by a sudden contraction of the mnscles it springs to a considerable height and distance, and leaps actively along the sur- face of the sand. The lowest part of fig. 166 is a magnified section of the foot, showing the muscular system which gives the ani- mal that power. It con- sists of many rows of longi- tudinal muscles, interlaced at regular distances by transverse fibres. Wlien the foot is extended, the Cockle has the power of distending it by filling a network o^ capillary tubes with water till it is almost transparent. The water is also distributed through the body and into the gill- chamber, which opens and shuts every ten minutes or oftener, in order to main- tain the supply ; and it has egress through the pores in the mantle and foot, for some burrowing moUusks squirt it out through the foot when disturbed. This water-system is unconnected with the circulation of the blood.
Each bivalve mollusk is both male and female ; and the fertilized eggs pass into the gills of the parent,
Fig. im. Foot of Cockle.
232 SHELLS OF MOLLUSCA. paet iii.
where they undergo a kind of incubation. At a certain time the yellow yolk of the egg* is divided into a granu- lar mass, which separates from the liquid albumen and produces cilia. The cilia cause the albumen to revolve round the interior of the egg ; at last the granular mass revolves with it, while at the same time it rotates about its axis in a contrary direction at the rate of six or eight times in a minute. When still in the egg, all the organs of the little embryos are formed in succession, even the little valves of the shells are seen to open and shut, but the embryos are hatched before they leave the parent, and swim about in the cavity of the external
gill-
Shells of the Molliisca.
When these mollusks come into the water, they soon find their transparent white shell too small, and begin to increase its size by m_eans of the mantle, which is an exquisitely sensible fleshy envelope applied to the back of the animal, extending round its sides like a cloak, only meeting in front, and it is for the most part in close contact with the whole interior of the shell. Its edges are fringed with rows of slender ten- tacles, and studded with glands, which secrete the coloin^s afterwards seen in the shell ; the glands in the rest of the mantle secrete only colourless matter.
When the animal begins to enlarge its shell, it at- taches the borders of the mantle to the margin of the valves, secretes a film of animal matter^ and lines it with a layer of mucus containing carbonate of lime and colour in a soft state, which soon becomes hard, and is then coated internally by the other glands of the mantle with colourless carbonate of lime.
The two strata thus formed, one richly coloured, the other white, often nacreous and brilliantly iridescent.
SECT. XI.
SHELLS. 01 MOLLUSC A.
233
are highly organized substances. Examined with the niicroscoj)e, they present remarkable varieties in some of the natural groups of bivalve Mollusca ; the structure of the Monomyarian Oyster is characteristic of the divi- sion which has but one muscle ; the Dimyaria, having two muscles, are represented by the Cockle.
The exterior la- minse at the edge of the fragile valves of a Pinna are often so thin and trans- parent that the or- ganization of the shells may be seen with a low mag- nifying power. A fragment has the appearance of a honeycomb on both
surfaces (fig. 167), whereas its broken edge resembles an assemblage of basaltic columns. The exterior layer of the shell is thus com- posed of a vast number of nearly uniform prisms, usually approaching to the hexagonal structure.
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Section of shell of Pinna transvei-sely to the direction of its prisms.
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whose lengths form the thickness of the lamina, their extremities its sur- faces. When the calca- reous part of the la.mina is dissolved by dilute acid, a firm membrane is left, which exhibits a
hexagonal structure (fig. 168), as in the original shell; but it is only in the shells of a few families of bivalves
Membranous basis of the shell of Pinna.
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SHELLS OF MOLLUSC A.
PART in.
nearly allied to the Pinna that this combination of the organic and mineral elements is seen in this distinct form ; it is beautifully disj^layed in the nacreous shells.
In many shells the internal la3^er has a nacreoiis or iridescent lustre, shown by Sir David Brewster to de- pend upon the striation of its surface, by a series of nearly parallel grooved lines. When Dr. Carpenter had dissolved the calcareous matter from a thin piece of nacreous substance, taken from the shell of the Haliotis
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Fig. 1C9. Section of nacreous lining of the shell of Avicula margaritacea (pearl oystei).
splendens, or Ear Shell, there remained an iridescent membrane, which presented to the microscope a series of folds or plaits somewhat regular, and splendidly iri- descent, but when the plaits were unfolded and the membrane stretched, the iridescence vanished. So the varied hues of mother-of-pearl are owing to the folds of an organic membrane.
The shells of the Gastropoda, or crawding moUusks, have a structure peculiar to themselves, but by no means so much varied as that of the bivalve class. The Strombus gigas, or Queen Conch, the Cassis, or Helmet
SECT. XI. EYES OF MOLLUSCA. 235
Shell, and the beautiful porcellanous Cyprsea3 or Cowries, are much valued by the artists who cut cameos, on ac- count of the structure of their shells, which consists of three strata, the same in composition, but differing in arrangement, and sometimes in colour. Each stratum of the shell is formed of many thin laminse, placed side by side, perpendicular to the plane of the stratum, and each lamina consists of a series of prismatic spicules with their long sides in close approximation; the laminee of the inner and outer strata have their spicules parallel to one another, while the spicules of the intermediate lamina are perpendicular to those on each side. According to Dr. Bowerbank, who discovered this complicated structure, the spicules are microscopic tubes filled with carbonate of lime.
The Spondylus gsedaropus has sixty ocelli constructed for accurate vision; One can form no idea of the ef- fect of so many eyes, unless they combine to form one image as our eyes do. The common Pecten, or Scal- lop, pretty both in form and colour, has a number of minute brilliant eyes arranged along the inner edge of the mantle, like two rows of diamond sparks. Some families of mollusks are destitute of eyes, even of the simplest kind; and it has been observed that those mollusks most liberally provided with eyes are also en- dowed with the most active and vigorous motions. The bivalves do not appear to have either taste or organs of hearing, but they are exceedingly sensitive to touch. It is singular that animals which have neither head nor brain should have any senses at all. A nerve-collar round the gullet with a trilobed nerve-centre on each side supplies the place of a brain ; nerves extend from these ; besides there are nerve-centres in various parts of the unsymmetrical bodies of the acephalous mollusks.
The Gastropoda, or crawling mollusks, have a head, and are consequently animals of a higher organization
236 TONGUES OF MOLLUSCA. part iii.
than the Conchifera or bivalve class. Theu' mantle forms a vaulted chamber over the head and neck, and envelopes the foot or crawling-disk ; all these the animal can pro- trude or dra.w in at pleasure. The head is of a globular form, with two or four exceedingly sensitive tentacles, arranged in pairs on each side of it, as in the garden snail, which has four, two long and two short. These tentacles, which the snail can push out and draw in at pleasure, are hollow tubes, the walls of which are com- posed of circular bands of muscle. The tentacles are pushed out by the alternate contractions of these circular bands, but they are drawn in again like the inverted finger of a glove by muscular cords proceeding to the internal extremity of the tentacle from the muscle that withdraws the foot. The structure of the tentacles is the same in all the crawling moUusks ; they are most sensitive in the Helix or Snail family, but they are be- lieved to be delicate organs of touch in all.
The Gastropod moUusks never have more than two eyes, either placed on the tips, or at the base of one pair of tentacles ; in the snail they may be seen as black points on the tips of the longest pair. In some of the higher Gastropods they are of great beauty, and appear to be perfectly adajited for distinct vision. Organs of hearing were discovered by Dr. Siebold at the base of one of the pairs of tentacles, consisting of vesicles con- taining a liquid and calcareous otolites, which perform remarkable oscillations due to the action of vibratile cilia. In the Snail and Slug group the number of otolites varies from eighty to one hundred.
The mouth of a Gastropod is a proboscis, with fleshy lips, generally armed with horny plates or spines on the jaws. The Snail has a crescent- shaped cutting plate on its jaw, and a soft bifid lip below, but the tongue is the most remarkable microscopic object in this group of Mollusca. In the terrestrial Gastropods, it is short and entirely ontained within the nearly globular head. It is tubular
SECT. XI.
TONGUES OF MOLLUSC A.
23
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Fig, 170. The tongiie of Helix aspersa.
behind, but in front it is spread into a nearly flat narrow plate, traversed by numerous rows of minute recurved teeth, or spines set upon flattened plates ; in the Garden Snail or Slug each principal tooth has its own plate. Fig. 170 re- presents a magnified portion of a Snail's tongue by Dr. Car- penter ; the rows at the edge are sepa- rated to show the
structure. The teeth are set close one to another, and are often very numerous. In the Helix pomatia, a snail found in the middle and southern counties of England, they amount to 21,000, and in the great slug (Arion ater), there are 26,800. This kind of tongue only serves for rasping vegetable food. All the Trochidse, which are marine moUusksthat are supposed by some naturalists to live on fuci, are remarkable for the length and beauty of their narrow sj)in3' tongues. Fig. 171 is a small portion of the tongue or palate of the Trochus zizyphinus, highly magnified ; the large teeth of the lateral bands, as well as the small teeth in the centre, have minutely serrated edges. Fig. 172 shows the Trochus granulatus in the act of crawling.
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TOXGUES OF MOLLUSC A.
PART III.
G-ranulated Trochus.
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The Limpet lives on sea-weeds. The animal is large in propoi-tion to the size of its conical shell ; it has a long
leaf- shaped gill un- der the edge of the mantle. The head has a short proboscis and pointed tentacles, with eyes at their base. The mouth has a horny jaw and a very long tongue, moved by muscles rising from firm ob- jects on each side of Fig. 173 represents the tongue beset with recm-ved hooks, and a shows a portion highly magnified. These recurved teeth are transparent, amber-coloured, and in the Limpet, as in most of the other Gastropods, they are chitinous. The teeth towards the point of the tongue are sufficiently hard to rasp the food ; and it is said that when they are worn down, the part of the tongue suj^port- A ing them falls off,
and that the waste is supplied by a progressive growth of the tongue from behind, and a har- dening of the teeth in front. The soft reserved portion is coiled in a spiral when not in use. All the species of Patellidse, or Limpets, have the power of making cavities with their foot in the surface of the rocks to which they adhere. The cavity exactly corresponds in shape and size with the mouth of the
Fig. 173. Tongue of Limpet:— A, portion of surface magnified.
SECT. XI. TONGUES OF MOLLUSC A.
239
shell, wliicli is sunk and very strongly glued into it, yet the Limpet dissolves the glue with a liquid secretion, roams in quest of food, and returns again to its home : both fluids are secreted by a multitude of glands in the foot, which is the instrument of adhesion.
The tongue of the carnivorous Gastropods is a very formidable weapon, used for boring holes in the hardest shells. The round holes in dead shells frequently met with on our coasts show that their inhabitants had fallen a prey to some of these zoophagous Mollusks. The tongue of these predatory Gastropods is a narrow me- chanical file, sometimes twice or even three times the length of the whole animal, and when not in use it is curled up near the foot. It is spined in various micro- scopic patterns according to the genus, and is supported by two firm parts from whence the muscles spring that work the rasp.
The Periwinkles have a ribbon-shaped tongue, rough with hooked teeth ; the Scalarise have also predatory tongues, but of all the Gastropod mollusks, the Whelk and its numerous allies are the most predacious. The Purpura or Dog Whelk especially is the most ravenous of mollusks. Its long tongue is armed with hooked and spined teeth, placed three in a row ; with this weapon and a proboscis capable of boring, they have been knoAvn to exterminate a whole bank of Mussels.
The Common Whelk is represented in fig. 1 74. When in the act of crawling, its head, with two tentacles, is at one extremity, its foot at the other, sometimes used as an organ of prehension ; and it has a siphon for carrying- water to the gills at the end of the shell.
All the families of the naked mollusks or Sea Slugs, furnish beautiful objects for the microscope. The two sexes are united in the same individual, and in their embryonic state they have a shell, which is cast off long- before they come to maturity. The gills placed on the
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NAKED MOLLUSC A.
PART III.
naked body are capable of being withdrawn into a cavity in the medial line of the back, and are either plumose, or
Fig. 174. Whelk.
like the leaf of a plant pinnated again and again, but they vary in form and position in the different genera.
Fig. 175. The Cro\\Tied Eolis.
In the group of the Eolidse, the gills are like leafless trees in most genera, but in the principal genus Eolis, they are long, spindle-shaped, sharp-pointed papillse, arranged in transverse rows or clusters along the sides
SECT. XI.
NAKED MOLLUSC A.
241
of the back, leaving a space between them, as in fig. 175. They are covered with long cilia, whose vibra- tions send a perpetual current of sea- water along each of them, the respiration is aided by vibrating cilia, scat- tered almost over the whole body, and the circulation of the blood is very simple.
The Eolis has a head prolonged into a pair of tenta- cles which are active and as sensitive as antennse. Another pair on the back have ten or twelve narrow plates twisted in a spiral round them ; the eyes are at the base of these horns. The mouth contains horny jaws and a spiny tongue like a mere strap covered by numerous transverse jDlates armed with recurved spines not more than a sixth part the thickness of a human hair. Fig. 1 76 repre- sents the tongue and some of the spines greatly magnified. The mouth leads in- to a short and large membranous sto- mach, from each side of which branches are sent off, from whence long canals traverse the papillse longitudinally, and perform the part of a liver. In many species these tubes are brilliantly co- loured, but none are more beautiful than those in the Eolis coronata, which is found under stones, like a mass of jelly, not larger than a pea, at low spring tides, on
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Fig. 176. Tongue-teeth of Eolis coronata.
242 PTEROPODA. paet hi.
our own coasts. When put into sea- water it expands till it is about an inch long (fig. 175). It is then pellucid, tinged with pink, and the central tubes in its numerous papillse are of a rich crimson hue, their surface reflects a metallic blue, and their tips are opaque white ; as the animal keeps its papillae in constant motion the effect is very pretty.
The Eolis coronata, like all its congeners, has a stinging apparatus, consisting of an oblong bag, full of thread cells, placed at the extremity of each papilla, from whence darts can be ejected through an aperture in the tip. The whole of the Eolididse are carnivorous, fierce, and voracious, setting up their papillse like the quills of a porcupine when they seize their prey ; they tear off the papillse of their weaker brethren, and even devour their own spawn, though their chief food con- sists of zoophytes.
The Pteropoda, or wing-footed moUusca, are very small ; they are incapable of crawling or fixing them- selves to solid objects, but they are furnished with two fins like the wings of a butterfly, w^th which they float or row themselves about in the ocean, far from land in vast multitudes. The shell of the typical spe- cies HyalaBa (a, fig. 177), which resembles the thinnest trans]3arent glass, consists of two valves, one, which is placed on the front of the animal, is long, flat, and ends in three points ; the other valve, which is applied to the back, is short and convex, and in the lateral fissure be- tween the two, the mantle is protruded. The head and fins project from an opening at the top of the shell. The fins, which are formed of muscular fibre, are fixed on a short thick neck, with the mouth lying between them, containing a tongue crossed by rows of long re- versed teeth. The head has no tentacles, and the animal appears to be blind, but it has an auditory vesicle lined with cilia, which keeps a few otolites in
SECT. XI.
PTEROPODA.
243
motion. This little animal is highly organized ; it has a gullet, a kind of crop and gizzard, a liver, a respiratory tnbe, a heart, a circnlating and nervous system, which enables it to swim with a flapping motion of its fins.
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Fig. 177. A, Hyalfea; B, Clio.
The Clio pyramidata (b, fig. 177) is an elegant animal belonging to the same class. Its fragile transparent shell has the form of a triangular pyramid ; and from its base proceeds a slender spine, and a similar spine extends from each side of the middle of the shell. The posterior part of the body is globular and pellucid, and in the dark it is vividly luminous, shining through the glassy shell. The fins of the Hyalsea and Clio or Cleodora are of a bright yellow, with a deep purple spot near the base. Both are inhabitants of the ocean.
The Clione borealis (fig. 178), which exists in millions in the Arctic Seas, is the most remarkable instance of the Naked Ptero^Dods. It has neither shell nor mantle; its membranous body is not more than half an inch long, its head is formed of two round lobes, on each side of the neck there is a large muscular wing or fin ; in swimming the animal brings the tips of the fins almost in contact, first on one side of the neck and
Fig. 178. Clioue borealis.
244 PTEROPODA. part hi.
then on tlie other. In cahn weather, they come to the surface in myriads, and quickly descend again. There is a pair of slender tentacles close to the head, which are organs of feeling, a pair of eyes are placed on the back of the neck, and acoustic vesicles lined with cilia keep otolites in motion. Besides these organs of sense, the Clione has respiratory, digestive, and nervous sys- tems. The latter consists of a nerve-collar round the gullet, with two nerve masses in its upper part, so the Clione is well supplied with nerves.
Upon each of the two round lobes of the head, there are three tentacles, totally different from those of feel- ing. They are, in fact, organs of prehension, which can be protruded or withdrawn at pleasure into a fold of the skin. When protruded, these six tentacles form a radiating crown round the mouth, which is terminal, and furnished with fleshy lips. Each of these tentacles is perforated by numerous cavities, appearing like red spots to the naked eye; however. Professor Eschricht dis- covered that each spot consists of a transparent sheath, enclosing a central body composed of a stem terminated by a tuft of about twenty microscopic suckers, capable of being thrust out to seize prey. The whole number of these prehensile suckers in the head of one Clione was estimated by Escliricht to amount to 330,000. Not- withstanding the vast prehensile power and multitude of these animals, they find abundance of food m the Arctic Ocean, for although the water is generally of the purest ultramarine blue, one fourth of the Greenland Sea, extending over 10° of latitude and some hundred feet deep, is green and turbid, with a profusion of minute animal life. The indefinite increase of the Clione borealis is checked by the whales, who feed upon them, and other minute inhabitants of the Arctic Seas. The Pteropods first appear in a fossil state in the Lower Silm-ian strata.
SECT. XI.
NAKED CEPHALOPOBS.
245
Naked Cephalopods.
The Naked Cephalopods have an internal skeleton instead of a shell, in the shape of a transparent horny pen in the Calamary, or the well-known internal shell of the Cuttle Fish ; they are divided into Octoj)ods and Decapods, according to the number of their tentacles : the Poulpe, or Octopus vulgaris, is a type of the first, the Sepia or Cuttle Fish, fig. 179, and the Loligo vulgare or Squid, are types of the last. These crea- tures may be seen on rocky coasts, or in the ocean hundreds of miles distant from V.nd. They are noc- turnal, gregarious, carni- vorous, and fierce, — their structure enables them to be t3rrants of the ocean. They are strange-looking, repulsive creatures, with staring bright-coloured eyes, while crawling awk- wardly on their fleshy arms head downmost ; yet they are the most highly or- ganized of all m.ollusks.
They have a distinct brain, enclosed in a carti- laginous skull, and all their muscles are attached to cartilages. The lower part of their body is sur- rounded by a mantle, which extends in front to form a gill chamber, in
which there is a pair of plume -like gills ; a funnel or siphon projects from the gill chamber immediately
179. Cuttle Fish.
246 NAKED CEPHALOPODA. part m.
below the tentacles. All the naked Cephalopods propel themselves back foremost in the sea, by the forcible expulsion of water from the gill chamber through this siphon.
The head i)rotrudes from the top of the mantle ; it has a pair of large eyes on sockets, and some species of these animals have eyelids. The ears are cavities under the cartilage of the skull, containing a small sac and an otolite. The mouth, which is terminal, and surrounded by the tentacles, has powerful jaws like a parrot's beak reversed, acting vertically. The tongue is large, the j>osterior part is covered with recurved spines, and the organ of smell is a cavity near the eyes. The Naked Cephalopods are remarkable for having three hearts, or pro]3elling A^essels — one for the circulation of arterial blood through the body, the others for projecting venous blood through the gills, at whose base they are situated.
The arms or tentacles of all the Naked CephalojDoda are formidable organs of defence and prehension, but are most powerful in the Loligo vulg-aris, the Poulpe, and the Cuttle, on account of one i^air of the tentacles being long slender arms, dilated at their extremities into flat clubs. On the inner surface of each of the tentacles, and upon the lower surface of the dilated ex- tremities of the long ones, there are multitudes of suck- ing disks, which, once fixed to an object, adhere so firmly that it is easier to tear off a portion of the ani- mal's tentacle than to make it release its hold. These sucking disks, which are placed in j^arallel rows, are represented magnified in fig. 180. Each sucker consists of a firm cartilaginous or fleshy ring (e), across which a disk of muscular membrane (/) is stretched, having a circular opening {g) in its centre. A cone-shaped mass of flesh fills the opening like a piston, capable of being"^ drawn backwards ; the membranous disk can also be drawn in. When one of these sucking-disks touches
SECT. XI.
NAKED CEPHALOPODS.
247
a fish, the fleshy piston is instantaneously retracted, a vacuum is formed, and the edges of the disk are pressed asfainst the victim with a force equal to the pressure of the superincumbent water and that of the atmosphere. The fish is powerless when embraced by the eig'ht tentacles and their hundreds of suckers ; but, if large enough still to struggle, the force is increased by draw- ins: in the membranous disk. The Poulpe, the most power- ful of the group which swims far from land, and has to con- tend with large slippery fishes, has a liooked claw in the centre of each sucking-disk, which is clasped into the fish the instant the vacuum is formed. The expansions at the extre- mities of their two long arms, which are thickly and irregularly beset with hooked sucking-disks, not only drag the fish into the embrace of the eight short ten- tacles, but they clasp round it and interlock, so that the fish can be torn to pieces by the parrot-like jaws, and eaten at leisure. The tentacles, long and short, have strong nerves, and a little nerve-mass occupies the centre of each sucking-disk, which gives the ten- tacles great power.
The sepia, or inky liquid, which all the ^fTaked Cepha- lopods possess as a means of defence, is secreted in a pyriform bag, which has an outlet near the respiratory siphon. If the animal be alarmed when devouring its prey, it instantly lets go its hold, discharges the inky liquid into the water, and escapes unseen.
The skin of this class of animals is thin and semi-
Fig. 180. Arm of Octopus.
248 NAKED CEPHALOPODS. tart iii.
transparent ; tlie surface immediately below it consists of numerous cells, of a flattened oval or circular form, containing' coloured particles suspended in a liquid. The colour is seldom the same in all these cells; the most constant kind corresponds with the tint of the inky secretion. In the Sepia there is a second series of cells, containing a deep yellow or brownish colour ; in the common Calamary, or Squid, there are three kinds of coloured cells — yellow, rose-coloured, and brown ; and in the Poulpe there are red, yellow, blue, and black cells. The cells possess the power of rapid contraction and expansion, by which the coloured liquid is drawn into deeper parts of the surface, and is again brought into contact with the semi-transparent skin— thus con- stantly varying. In consequence of the high develop- ment of the nervous system, the skin of the Naked Cephalopods is of extreme sensibility ; a mere touch brings a blush on that of the Poulpe, and they all assume the colour of the surface on which they rest as readily as the chameleon. Many of these nocturnal animals are luminous, and are easily attracted by bright metallic objects.
PART III. RECAPITULATION. z^c)
RECAPITULATIOlSr.
Numerous instances of microscopic structure may be found in the vertebrate series of marine animals, but the field is too extensive for the Author to venture upon.
In the first section of this book, an attempt has been made to give some idea of the present state of mole- cular science — far short, indeed, of so extensive a sub- ject; yet it may be sufficient, perhaps, to show the views now entertained with regard to the powers of nature, the atoms of matter, and the general laws resulting from the phenomena of their reciprocal action. By spec- trum analysis it has been shown that not only many terrestrial substances, in a highly attenuated state, are constituents of the luminous atmospheres of the sun and stars, but that the nebulse in the more distant regions of space contain some of the elementary gases of the air we breathe.
In the succeeding sections it has been proved that the atmosphere teems with the microscopic germs of animal and vegetable beings, waiting till suitable con- ditions enable them to spring into life, and perform their part in the economy of the world. The life his- tory of the lower classes of both kingdoms has been a triumph of microscopic science.
The molecular structure of vegetables and animals has been investigated by men of science in their mi- nutest details ; the fragment of a tooth, bone, or shell,
250 RECAPITULATION. part hi.
recent or fossil, is sufficient to determine tiie nature of the animal to which it belonged ; and, if fossil, to assign the geological period at which it had lived, whether on the earth, in the waters, or the air. By the microscopic examination of a minnte Foraminifer or shell-like or- ganism, it has been proved beyond a donbt that the Eozoon, an animal which existed at a geological period whose remoteness in time carries ns far beyond the reach of imagination, only differs in size from a kind living in the present seas. Simplicity of structure has preserved the race through all the geological changes which, during millions of centuries, have swept from existence myriads of more highly organized beings. The Eozoon is the most ancient form of life known, and was probably an inhabitant of the primeval ocean. Patches of carbonaceous matter imbedded in the same strata show that vegetation had already begun; so at that most remote period of the earth's existence, the vivifying influence of the sun, the constitution and motions of the atmosphere and ocean, and the vicis- situdes of day and night, of life and death, were the same as at the present time.
INDEX.
INDEX.
Abrotliallus, organs of reproduction of, i. 307 Absorption of light and heat, i. 34
effects of, i. 35, 36
generally independent of colour, i. 36
Mellon^'s investigations into the laws of, i. 38
Prof. Tyndall's experiments, i. 38
amount of radiant heat absorbed by the perfumes of flowers and plants, i. 43-45
experiments showing radiation to be equal to absorption, i. 46
great absorption of olefiant gas, i. 47
absorptive power of aqueous vapour, i. 53
dynamic absorption, i. 49
absorption a phenomenon irrespective of aggregation, i, 53
absorption of invisible rays by solids, liquids, and gases, i. 65 Absorption bands in the red and green parts of the solar spectrum, 1,131 Acalepha, the simple hydra a phase in the life of the, ii. 91 Acalephse, Campanograde, characters of, ii. 103 Acalephse, Ciliograde, characters of the, ii. 101
mode of reproduction of, ii. 103 Acalephse, Physograde, characters of, ii. 107 Acanthometrse, structure and habitat of, ii. 19 Acetic acid, chemical combination forming, i. 97 Acetic fermentation, fungus producing, i. 288 Acetylene, formation of, i. 97
2 54 INDEX.
Acetylene, chemical composition of, i, 1 28
Aclilya prolifera, structure and reproduction of, i. 220
Acids, their affinity for alkalies, i. 96
Acineta, structure and mode of reproduction of, ii. 77, 78
food of, and mode of seizing it, ii. 78 Acorn-shell, structure of the, ii. 213 Acrocarpi, characters of the group, i. 328 Acrocladia mammillata, spines of the, ii. 180, 181 Acrostichese, characters of the, i. 359, 360 Actinia sulcata, structure of, ii. 132
Actinian polype, structiu'e and mode of reproduction of, ii. 130, 131 Actinian zoophytes, characters of, ii. 130, 131
thread-cells, ii. 132
structure of, ii. 134-136 Actinism of star-light, i. 55
of moon-light, i, 55
of sun-light, i. 56 Actinocyclus undulatus, structure of, i. 199, 200 Actinomma drymodes, structure of, ii. 21 Actinophrys sol, structure and reproduction of, ii. 16-18
certain degree of instinct exhibited by, ii. 18
its enemy, the Amoeba, ii. 18 Adder's tongue fern, i. 365 Adiantiese, characters of the groups, i. 358
Adiantum Capillus- Veneris, or maiden's-hair fern, structure and habi- tat of, i. 359 Adriatic sea, Foraminifera in the ooze of the bed of the, ii. 51 Adularia, or moonstone, fluorescent property of, x. 66 ^cidium, characters of, i. 280 ^gean sea, zones of Algae in the, i. 259 ^thalium septicum, structure and habitat of, i. 270-272
Amceba-like motions of, i. 270
mode of reproduction of, i. 271 Affinity, chemical, of kind and of degree, i, 95
relation between chemical affinity and mechanical force, i. 98 Agaricini, the order, i. 261 Agaricus, the genus, i. 261, 263
structure of the, i. 263 Agaricus arvensis, spawn of, i. 262 Agaricus campestris, or common mushroom, i. 261
structure and mode of reproduction of, i. 261 Agaricus gardneri, luminosity of, i. 264
INDEX. 255
Agaricus olearius, luminosity of, i. 264 Air, a non-conductor of electricity, i. 32
amount of force exerted by the sun's light within the limits of the terrestrial atmosphere, i. 34
absorption of radiant heat by, i. 41
effect of the rays of the sun falling on the earth through pure dry air, i, 53
spectrum analysis of the component parts of the atmosphere, i. 139 Air-vessel of Nereocystis Lutkeana, i. 249, 250 Alaria esculenta, fruit of, i. 249 Alaria Pylaii, fruit of, i. 249
Albumen, formation and structure of, in vegetable organisms, i. 423 Alcohol, chemical combination forming, i. 97 Alcyon zoophytes, characters of, ii, 119, 120
structure and mode of reproduction of, ii. 120-123 Alcyonidium elegans, structure of, ii. 120
Alcyonium digitatum, or dead man's lingers, structure of, ii. 121, 122 Aldebarau, spectrum of, i. 155 Algae, i. 179 •;
classification of the group, i. 179-181
green Algse, i. 181-220
zones or degrees of depth at which different Algse exist, ii. 221, 258, 259
brackish water often a cause of change in the form of Algse, i. 245
colossal Algse of the North Pacific, i. 245
rings of growth of some of the larger sea- weeds, i. 252 Alizarine blue, from what obtained, i. 124, 125 Alkalies, their affinity for acids, i. 96 Alkaloids, chemical structure of, i. 427
Allosorus crispus, or parsley fern, structure and habitat of, i. 358 Allotropism, i. 8
of carbon, i. 15 Alsophilse, structure of, i. 360 Alum, a free radiator but a bad conductor of radiant heat, i. 37
partial decomposition of, by diffusion, i. 109
manufacture of, i. 120 Alumina, effect of electricity on, i. 32 Aluminum, i. 4
spectrum of, i. 65 Amalgams of metals, illustrating the relation between chemical affinity
and mechanical force, i. 98 Amansia, structure of, i. 242
256 INDEX.
Araaryllidacese, stri;cture and mode of reproduction of, i. 388
America, North, enormous quantities of petroleum in, i. 126
Amidogen combines with other substances and simple atoms''as if it
were a simple element, i. 106 Ammonia, amount of absorption of radiant heat ])y, i. 41 characteristics and constituents of, i. 119 chemical composition of, i. 128 combination forming, i. 107 carbonate of, i. 119 extent of the manufacture of, i. 120 muriate of, i. 120 manufacture of, i. 120 sulphate of, i. 120 how manufactured, i. 120 Ammonium, sulphide of, i. 119
Amoeba princeps, structure, motions, food, and reproduction of, ii. 13-16 its capture of the Actinophrys, ii. 18 a new species found in dust from Egypt, ii. 65 Amorphous substances, conduct of, under magnetic influence, i. 76 Amphicora, two eye-specks in the tail of, ii. 158 Amphidotus, spines of the, ii. 180 Amphipoda, characters of the, ii. 201 Amphithose, structure of, ii. 203 Analysis, chemical, electricity and light instruments of, i. 95
the most powerful means of, i. 96 Andrsea subulata, leaves of, i. 330 Andrseacese, characters of the tribe, i. 328
Angiocarpei, structure, mode of reproduction, and habitat of, i. 309, 310 Angiopteris erecta, perfume from, i, 364, 365
Angrgecum sesquipedale, structure and mode of reproduction of, i. 402 Anguillidae, eel-like entozoa, structure and habitat of, ii. 147, 148 Anemone, sea, structure and mode of reproduction of, ii. 130, 131 Aniline, formation of the fulminate of, i. 92 combination forming, i. 107 how produced, i. 121, 122 constituents and characteristics of, i. 122 formation of the aniline colours, i. 122, 123 mauve, i. 122 magenta, i. 122 purple, i. 123 yellow, i. 124 chemical composition of, i. 128
INDEX. 257
Aniline, acetate of, i. 123
Animals, functions of the frame of, ii. 1
sarcode and muscle, ii. 2
blood, ii. 2
waste and repair, ii. 3 food, ii. 3
animal heat, ii. 3
the heart, digestion, heat, and respiration, ii. 4
nerve-force of animals, ii. 4
nervous system, ii. 5
structure and functions of the brain and spinal cord, ii. 8
intelligence, or the mental principle, in animals, ii. 11, 12 Anise seed, amoimt of radiant heat absorbed by the perfume of, i. 44 Annelida, characters of the, ii. 149
mode of reproduction of, ii. 160
luminosity of, ii. 160
fossil remains of, ii. 161 Annulosa, or worms, characters of, ii. 144 Anomura, structure and mode of reproduction of, ii. 197 Antennaria Eobinsonii, mode of reproduction of, i. 296 Antennariei, structure of, i. 296
Anthoxauthum odoratum, or sweet-scented vernal grass, mode of repro- duction of, i. 386 Anthozoa zoophytes, or living flowers, characters of, ii. 119 Antiaris toxicaria, causes of the vnruleuce of, i. 426
fruit of, innocuous, i. 426 Antozone, i. 8
Aphrodita hystrix, structure and mode of reproduction of, ii. 159 Apolemia contorta, structure and mode of reproduction of, ii. 108,
109 Apple, fructification of the, i. 381 Apus cancrifurmis, structure of the, ii. 210 Aqueous vapour, i. 53
absorptive power of, i. 53-55 Arachnoidiscus Ehrenbergii, structiire of, i. 199
Arcella, structure and mode of foi-mation of the shell of, ii. 21, 22, 23 Aregma speciosum, spores of, i. 276 Arenicola, structure of, ii. 157 Arragonite, i. 108
external and internal alteration of, by heat, i. 108 Artenia salina, structure of, ii. 210 Artocarpus, or bread-fruit tree, i. 426 VOL. II. S
258 INDEX.
Arum, structure and mode of reproduction of, i. 388
water secreted by the, iit night, i. 429 Arundo Donax, size of the, i. 386
Ascaris lumbricoides, structure and mode of reproduction of, ii. 147 Asci, or sporidia sacs, of Ascomycetes, i. 290 Ascidia virginea, structure, food, and habitat of, ii, 224, 225 Ascidians, or Tunicata, character of, ii. 222
compound or social gelatinous, ii. 222
star-like, ii. 224 Ascomycetes, structure of, i. 290 Ascophora elegans, fructification of, i. 226 Ashes, i. 14
Aspergillus dubius, spores of, i. 286 Aspergillus glaucus, spores of, i. 286 Asphalt, sources of, in various parts of the world, i. 126 Aspidise, characters and habitat of the group, i. 346, 348 Aspleniese, characters and habitat of the group, i. 351, 352, 353 Asplenium lanceolatum, structure, fructification, and habitat of, i. 354 Asplenium marinum, structure and habitat, i. 355, 356 Asplenium Euta-muraria, or wall rue, structure, habitat, and reproduc- tive organs of, i. 353, 354 Asteroidea, or star-fishes, characters of the,, ii. 169
fossil star-fishes, ii. 174 Athyrium Filix-foemina, or lady fern, herbaceous caudex of, i. 340
structure and fructification of, i. 352, 353 Atlantic Ocean, profound depths of, north and south, ii, 49
foraminifera at great depths in the, ii. 49, 50 Atmolysis, or method of analysing gases, i. Ill
Atmosphere, effect of the heat radiated by the moon on the higher regions of the, i. 55
opalescence of the, and its effect on the chemical power of the sun's light, i. 55
causes of this opalescence, i. 55
its permeability to every kind of chemical rays, i. 58 Atmosphere of the sun, thirteen terrestrial subsUiuees in the, i. 59 Atolls, or coral lagoons, ii. 140
Atoms or molecules of matter, power of atoms of matter on the rays of the solar beam, i. 58
aggregation of matter by electricity, i. 74
effect of the physical forces on molecular arrangement, i. 90, 91
proof of the individuality and polarity of the atoms of matter, i. 91
effect of motion, i. 91
IXBFX. 259
Atoms : eiFect of catalysis, i. 91 of matter, i. 2 cohesion of, i. 25 unit of mechanical force, i. 26 the atomic theory, i. 93 the law of definite proportions, in combination and resolution of the
component parts of substances, i. 94 affinity of kind and of degree, i. 95 force of chemical combination, i. 97, 98 relative atomic weights, i. 99
table of atomic weights compared with that of hydrogen, i. 100 relation between the atomic weights and the specific gravities
of substances, i. 100 capacities of atoms for heat and electricity, i. 100, 101 law of equivalency in weight and volume, i. 102, 103 substitution the basis of this law, i, 104 sequence of atomic numbers, i. 105 groups of substances whose atomic weights are in regular arithme- tical series, i. 106 • groups of combined atoms called compound radicles, i. 106 the polyatomic theory, i. 107 the force of molecular attraction more powerful than gravitation,
i. 109 internal movement of molecules of matter in a gaseous state, i. 113 Aulocantha scolymantha. structure of, ii. 21
Avicula margaritacea, or pearl oyster, nacreous lining of shell of, ii. 234 Azores, the black mildew of the, i. 297 Azote in vegetable organisms, i. 423 Azuline dye, production of, i. 123
B
Eabylon, the asphaltic mortar used in building, i. 126 Bacillaria cursoria, motion of, i. 203 Bacillaria paradoxa, motion of, i. 203 Back, Sir George, his arctic journey, i. 308 Bacteria, their structure, size and habitat, ii. 64 Bseomyces, structure of, i. 306 Balanidse, structure of, ii. 213 Balanus balanoides, development of, ii. 216
s 2
26o INDEX.
Balanus ciilcatus, structure of, ii. 213-215
Baldness caused by fungi, i. 275
Balms, clieniical combination forming the principle of the, i. 97
Bamboo, size and structure of, i. 386
Bangia, characters of the genus, i. 222
Bangia ceramicola, structure and mode of reproduction of, i. 223
Bangia ciliaris, structure and reproduction of, i. 223
Bangia fuscopurpurea, structure and reproduction of, i. 223
Barium, i. 3
one of an isomeric triad with calcium and strontium, i, 105
spectrum analysis of the rarefied vapour of, i. 142
effect of high temperature, i. 143
chloride of, spectrum of, i. 146 Bark of trees, structure of, i. 406, 407
Baryta, green coloured light obtained by the combustion of, i. 133 Batarrea, structure of, i. 267 Batrachospermese, habitat and structure of, i. 210 Bean, common, fungus of the, i. 280 Beans, caseine obtained from, i. 125 Beer, yeast of, i. 287 Beetles, fungi in the stomachs of, i. 274 Begonia, structure and mode of reproduction, of, i. 376 Bengal, Bay of, causes of the scarlet colour of the, ii. 72 Benzol, combination forming, i. 118, 127
constituents and characteristics of, i. 121
chemical composition of, i. 128 Bergamot, amount of radiant heat absorbed by the perfume of, i, 44 Beroe Forskalia, structure of the, ii. 102, 103 Bhang, whence obtained, i. 427
intoxicating effect of, i. 427 Biddulphia pulchella, structure of, i. 198 Bignonia, fructification of, i. 381, 382 Bilin, polishing slate of, of what it consists, i. 206 Biscay, Bay of, zones of Algge in the, i. 259 Bisection, propagation of diatoms by, i. 200, 204 Bismuth, diamagnetism of, i. 75, 76
chloride of, spectrum of, i. 146 Bittern, i. 18 Bleaching properties of: —
chlorine, i. 19
bromine, i. 20
iodine, i. 21
INDEX. 261
Blechnum Spicant, structure, habitat, and mode of reproduction of, i.
366, 307 Blood, formation and functions of, ii. 2, 3 Blue dyes, i. 123, 124
Bog moss, structure, fructification, and habitat of, i. 332 Boleti, habitat and structure of the, i. 265 Boletus seneas, large amount of heat evolved by, i. 265 Bombyx rubi, fungi destructive of, i. 282 Boron, i. 18
whence obtained, i. 18
insolubility of, i. 18
heat at wliich it burns, i. 18 Botrychium, habitat of the genus, i. 366
Botrychium Lunana, or moonwort, structure and habitat of, i. 366 Botryllidae, or star-like Ascidians, ii. 224 Botrytis Bassiana, a fungus parasite of the silk-worm, i. 274 Botrj'tis carta, development of, i. 294 Botr}i:is, the cause of the murrain in potatoes, i. 284
structure of, i. 284 Brachionus pala, structure of, ii. 162-166 Brachyura, structure and mode of reproduction of, ii. 189-197 Brackens, i. 358
Brain, struct'ire and functions of the, ii. 8 Branchipes stagnalis, structure of, ii. 210 Bread, fungus which attacks, hot from the oven, i. 296 Bread-fruit tree, food obtained from the, i. 426 Bristle fern, structure and habitat of, i. 361 Bromine, i, 18
whence obtained, i. 18
properties of, i. 20, 22
Professor Sehonbein's views as to, i. 20, 21
spectrum of, i. 21.
amount of absorption of radiant heat by, i. 41, 42, 43
atomic weight of, compared with tliat of hydrogen, i, 100
spectrum analysis of, i. 140 Bryei, characters and structure of the, i. 329 Bryopsis, structure and habitat of, i. 219, 224 Bryozoa, or Polyzoa, characters of, ii. 218 Buckthorn, green dye obtained from, i. 124 Buds of trees, structure and functions of, i. 411 Bugularia avicularia, structure of, ii. 220 Bulbous plants, beauty of, i. 387
262 INDEX,
Bulbous plants, structure and reproduction of, i. 388 Bunt, germination of the spores of, i. 281
Cadmium, i. 4
spectrum of volatilized cadmium, i. 64
chloride of, spectrum of, i. 146 Cseomaeei, structure and mode of reproduction of, i. 278 Caesium, i, 3, 4
atomic weight of, compared with that of hydrogen, i. 100
one of an isomeric triad with rubidium and potassium, i. 105
M. Bunsen's discovery of the metal by spectrum analysis, i. 134, 135
mode of distinguishing it from potassium, i. 136
its properties, i. 136
changes in its spectrum by high temperature, i. 144 Caffeine, the neutral crystallisable principle of coffee, i. 428 Caladium distillatorium, water secreted by at night, i. 429 Calanus, structure and social habits of the, ii. 206
bloody water formed by the, ii. 206 Calanus pontilla, structure of, ii. 206 Calanus sanguineus, structure of, ii. 206 Calcarina, intermediate skeleton of, ii. 42, 43 Calcium, i. 3, 4
one of an isomeric triad with strontium and barittm, i. 105
spectrum analysis of the rarefied vapour of, i. 142 effect of high temperature, i. 143
chloride of, spectrum of, i. 146 Caliciei, characters and habitat of the order, i. 309 Calicium inquinans, spores of, i. 309 Calicium tympanellum, organs of reproduction of, i. 301 Calico-printing, use of oxalic acid in, i. 116 Callithamnion, structure of the genus, i. 231 Callithamnion corymbosum, structure and reproductive organs of, i. 231
232 Callithamnion sparsum, structure of, i. 231 Calorescence, property of, in some solids and liquids, i. 61 Calyx of flowering plants, i. 378 Cambium of plants, structure of, i. 407, 417
Camptosorus, or walking fern, structure and mode of reproduction of, i. 352
INDEX. 263
Campylopus lamellinervis, leaves of, i. 330
Canada, enormous quantities of petroleum in, i. 126
Canina octonaria, larvae of, parasites of the Turritopsis nutricula, ii. 100
Caoutchouc, whence obtained, i. 426
Carbazotic acid, constituents of, i. 121
Carbohydrates, combinations forming the, i. 116
Carbolic acid, combination forming, i. 107, 120, 121, 128
its property of arresting putrefaction, i. 121
becomes solid when dried and purified, i. 121 Carbon, i. 13
allotropism of, i. 15
at variance with the geometrical system of crystallization, i. 15
analogy between carbon and silicon, i. 18
effect of the combination of the atoms of carbon and oxygen in combustion, i. 30
property of the bisulphide of, in the transmission of heat, i. 36
effect of a discharge of the nitric acid electric battery, with car- bon balls on the terminals, i. 8-t
will not combine directly with hydrogen, i. 97
atomic weight of, compared with that of hydrogen, i. 100
spectra of the compounds of carbon, i. 146
bisulphide of, absorption of radiant heat by, i. 40 opacity of, to the invisible rays, i. 65
in coal gas, i. 118
how freed from coal gas, i. 118 Carbonic acid gas, i. 14
reduced to a solid, i. 15
weight of the atoms of, compared with those of hydrogen, i. 99
absorption of radiant heat by, i. 41
how freed from coal gas, i. 118
one of the illuminants in coal gas, i. 118 Carbonic oxide, absorption of radiant heat by, i. 41
action of different thicknesses of, on radiant heat, i. 48
the poisonous quality of coal gas, i. 118 Cardium, or cockle, structure and mode of reproduction of, ii. 230, 231 Carpentaria, structure and habitat of the, ii. 57
a link between the Foramiuifera and the sponges, ii. 57 Carrigeen, or Irish moss, structure andmode of reproduction of, i. 235, 236 Carcinus mcenas, structure and reproduction of, ii. 192, 195
moulting and power of reproducing limbs, ii. 197 Caryophyllia Smithii, its formidable artillery, ii. 133, 134
structure and development of, ii. 134, 135
264 INDEX.
Caryophyllia Smitliii, locomotion of, ii. 135 Caseine, or cheese, used as a mordant, i. 125
obtained also from pease and beans, i. 125
formation and structure of, in vegetable organisms, i. 423 Cassava, or Manihot, food obtained from the, i. 426 Cassis, or helmet shells, structure of, ii. 2.3-i Catalysis, effect of, on molecular arrangement, i. 91
instances of, i. 91, 92 Catasetum, structure and mode of reproduction of, i. 601 Caterpillars, fungus destructive of, i. 282 Catsup made from the morel, i. 292 Caulerpas, where found, i. 219 Celidiuro, organs of reproduction of, i. 307 Cellepora, structure of, ii. 218 Cells, vegetable. See Vegetation Cellulose, produced by plants, i. 419 Cellularia ciliata, structure of, ii. 219, 220 Cephalopoda, naked, characters of, ii. 245 Ceramiacese, beauty and habitat of, i. 231
characters of the genus, i. 232 Ceramium ciliatum, structure and organs of reproduction of, i. 232 Ceratopteridinese, or Parkeriacese, characters, structure, and habitat of
the group, i. 345, 363 Cerealia, the grasses from whence they were derived unknown, i. 383 Cestum Veneris, structure and mode of reproduction of, ii. 103 Ceterach, characters of the genus, i. 354
structure and mode of reproduction of, i. 354
brought by ocean currents to Europe, i. 355 Ceterach officinarum, or scaly spleen -wort, structure, organs of fructifica- tion, and habitat of, i. 354, 355 Cetraria, or Iceland moss, characters of the genus, i. 304 Cetraria tristis, structure of, i. 304 Ceylon, the black mildew of, i. 297 Chamomile flowers, amount of radiant heat absorbed by the perfume of,
i. 44 Chantarelle, veins of the, i. 264 Characese, structure and habitat of, i. 312
fluid currents of, i. 312, 313
reproductive organs of, i. 313 Chara fragilis, structure and mode of reproduction of, i. 314, 315 Charcoal, i. 13
as a conductor of electricity, i. 32
JXDEX. 265
Cheese, blue and brick-red moulds on, i, 285
Cheilantlies odorn, scent of, i. 347
Chelidonine, whence obtained, i. 427
Chemistry, laws placing it on a strict!}- numerical basis, i, 93
Chimneys of bad construction, i. 14
Chiodecton monostiehum, structure and habitat of, i. 309
Chiodecton myrticola, habitat of, i. 309
Chirodota, structure and habitat of, ii. 186
Chirodata Isevis, wheels of the, ii. 186
Chirodata myriotrochus, wheels of the, ii. 186
Chloride of lime, i. 19
Chlorides, spectra of the, i. 146, 147
Chlorine, i. 18
whence obtained, i. 18, 19
properties of, i. 19, 22
affinity for hydrogen, i. 19, 20
substances produced by the combination of chlorine with oxygen, i. 20 and with nitrogen, and with sulphur, i. 20
Professor Schonbein's views as to, i. 20, 21
spectrum of, i. 21 '
absorption of radiant heat by, i. 41, 42
its affinity for iodine, i. 96
atomic weight of, compared with that of hydrogc-n, i. 100
spectrum analysis of, i, 140 Chlorine gas, substances which take fire spontaneously in, i. 19
combustion of, i. 19 Chlorospermese, characters of, i. ISO
structure and development of, i. 181 Chondrus crispus, or Carrigeen, structure and mode of propagation of, i. 235, 236
effect of fresh water on the form of, i. 243 Chorda filium, structure and habitat of, i. 245 Chordaria divaricata, spore cysts of, i. 246 Chordariffi, stiiicture of, i. 245 Chrysophouie acid, whence obtained, i. 303
Chylocladia kaliformis, structure and mode of propagation of, i. 235 Cibotium Barometz, caudex of, i. 350 Cidaris, spines of the, ii. 180 Cinchoniese, alkaloids obtained from, i. 427 Cinchonine, structure of, and whence obtained, i. 427 Cirripedia, characters of the, ii. 213 Cladocarpi, characters of the group, i. 328
266 INDEX.
Ciadocera, characters of tlie order, ii. 208
Cladonia, structure of, i. 306
Cladopliora, structure of the genus, i. 222
Cladophora pelhicida, structure of, i. 222
Claudea, structure of, i. 2-i2
Clavariei, structure and habitat of, i. 266
Clio pyrnmidata, structure of, ii. 2-i2, 243
Ciioua, structure and burrowing apparatus of, ii. 60
Clione borealis, structure and habitat of, ii. 243
fossil remains of, ii. 244 Closterium, double circulation of the internal fluid in, i. 193 Closterium lunula, structure and development of, i. 193 Cloud, force of the chemical combination requisite to form a, i. 98 Cloves, oil of, amount of radiant heat absorbed by the perfume of, i. 44 Club mosses. Sec Lyeopodiacese Coal, i. 13
efFeet of the consumption of a pound of, in a steam-engine, i. 29, 30
energy in abeyance in the coal existing in the whole globe, i. 30 Coal gas, i. 117, 118
poisonous quality of, i. 118
explosive quality of, i. 1 1 8
impurities from which it is freed, i. 118
■uses of the black foetid gas water resulting from the distillation of coals, i. 119 Coal tar, i. 120
substances produced from, by distillation, i. 120
colours, i. 121, 122 Cobalt, i. 4, 5
crystals of, formed artificially by electricity, i. 74
effect of heat in the magnetism of, i. 77 Coccocarpei, characters of, i, 307 Coccocarpia smaragdina, section of, i. 300 Coccospheres, found at a vast depth in the ocean, ii. 51 Cockle, structm'e and mode of life of the, ii. 230, 231 Codiura, structure and habitat of, i. 219-224 Codium Bursa, structure of, i. 224 Codium tomentosum, structure of, i. 214 Coffee, active principle of, i. 428 Cohesion, properties of, i. 25
in solids, i. 25
in liquids, i. 25
INDEX. 267
Cohesion : reciprocal attractions between solids and liquids, i. 25
instance of the power of the cohesive force, i. 91 Colchicum, or meadow saifron, mode of reproduction of, i. 388
poisonous alkaloid obtained from, i. 427 Collemacei, structure and habitat of, i. 307 Colloid bodies, i. 109, 110
less diffusible than crystalloids, i. 109
permeable to solutions of crystalloids, but impermeable to solutions of colloids, i. 110
characteristics of colloids, i. Ill Collomia grandiflora, fructification of, i. 380 Colocasia, water secreted by, i. 430 Colour, causes of, in flowers, green leaves, dyed cloth, gold, and copper,
i. 35, 36 Colouring matter of flowers and plants, i. 428, 429 Comatula, structure of, ii. 175, 176 Combination, chemical, i. 94
the law of definite proportions, i. 94, 95
force of, i. 97, 98 ;
Combustion, effect of, in the consumption of coal in the steam-engine, i. 29, 30
combustion a case of impetus, i. 30 Comers, spectra of, i. 159 note, 163 Conferva glomerata, development of, i. 207 Confervaceai, habitat of, i. 206, 207
structure and development of, i. 207
reproduction of, i. 208
modes of action of the vital forces of, i. 210 Confervse, cells and development of, i. 171
Conferva, marine, structure, habitat, and reproduction of, i. 221, 222. Conidium, or spore-dust cell, of fungi, i. 279 Coniomycetes, characters of the family of, i. 275 Conjugatfe, structure of the genus, i. 216 Conjugation, propagation of diatoms by, i. 200, 204 Constantinea rosa marina, i, 235 Constantinea sitchensis, i. 235 Copepoda, characters of the, ii. 204 Copper, properties of, i. 4
colour of, in reflected and absorbed light, i. 35, 36
its power of transmitting electricity, i. 90
atomic weight of, compared with that of hydrogen, i. 100
spectra of copper and its compounds, i. 145, 146
268 INDEX.
Copper, poi'oxide of, combination forming, i. 104 Coral, structure of the coral polypes, ii. 133, 134
composition of the stony substance of, ii. 137
reef-building corals, ii. 138
red, ii. 125
white, ii. 127 Corallina officinalis, mode of reproduction of, i. 230
structure and development of, i. 240 Corallines, structure and mode of propagation of, i. 240 Corallium Johnstoni, structure and habitat of, ii. 127 Corallium rubrum, structure and mode of reproduction of, ii. 125, 126, 127
coral fishing in the Mediterranean, ii. 126 Corallium secundum, structure of, ii. 127 Cordiceps miliaris, characters of, i. 283, 293 Cordiceps purpurea, the second form of ergot, i. 293
structure of, i. 293 Cordiceps Eobertsii, form of, i. 293 Coremium glaucum, production of, i. 287 Corolla of flowering plants, i. 378 Corundum, i. 4
Corynidse, characters of the family, ii. 90 Cosmarium, structure and development of, i. 194 Cotton, dyes for, i. 125
necessity for mordants for fixing cotton dyes, i. 125
enormous manufacture of cotton in Britain, i. 125 Cowries, shells of, ii. 234, 235 Cow-tree, beverage obtained from the, i. 426 Crabs, structure and mode of reproduction of, ii. 189-197
hermit, structure of, ii. 197
king, fossil, ii. 211
spider, structure of, ii. 211 Creosote, i. 121
its property of preventing the decay of organic matter, i. 121 Cressylic acid, how produced, i. 120, 121
chemical composition of, i. 128 Cristallaria compressa, form of, ii. 28
structure of, ii. 39 Cristata, siliceous skeleton of, ii. 60
Crocus, structure and mode of reproduction of, i. 387, 388 Cruoria pellita, tetraspores of, i. 237 Crustacea, characters of the, ii. 188
fossil Crustacea, ii. 211
IXLEX. 269
Crustacea, Decaprxl. See Decap'xls Crj'ptogamia, spores of, i. 177, 178 Cryxjtonemiacese, multitude of forms of, i. 234
structure of, i, 234 Crystal, rock, its transmission of chemical solar rays, i. 65
absorption of invisible rays by, i. 65
change of position of the oj^tical axes of the crv'stals of, by heat, i. 73 Crj'stallization, relation of polarization of light and heat to crj-stalliza- tion, i. 70, 71
axes of symmetry of crystals, i. 71, 72
change of p^jsition of the optical axes of crystals by heat, i. 72
effect of pressure on the optical axes of crystals, i. 73
influence on the aggregation of, i. 73, 74
probable origin of the crystalline form, i. 74
causes of the variety of forms assumed by matter, i. 74
deviation of dimorphous crystals from the general law of crj-htal- lization, i. 75
proof of the connection- between the magnetic forces and CTystalline structure, i. 76
conditions of the position which cr)-stals take with regard to the magnetic force, i. 76 Crystalloids, or crj'stalline substances, diflfusibility of, i. 109 Crystals, water an essential element in, i. 107
alterations in crj'stals by heat, i. 108 Cusconine, structure of, and whence obtained, i. 427 Cuthbert's, St., beads, ii. 175 Cutaneous diseases caused by fungi, i. 274 Cutleriit multifida, structure, mode of reproduction, and habitat of,
i. 248 Cuttle fish, structure of the, ii. 245-247
Cyanogen, combines with other substances and simple atoms, as if it were a simple element, i. 106
combination forming it, i. 106 Cyathea medullaris, used as food in New Zealand, i. 360 Cyathese, structure of, i. 360 Cyatheinese, characters of the group, i. 344
sporangia of, i. 343
structure and fructification of, i. 360 Cydoclypeus, structure and habitat of, ii. 48
Cyclops quadricomis, structure and mode of reproduction of, ii. 205, 206 Cydippe pileus, structure of, ii. 101, 102
270 INDEX.
Cyniothea, their food and mode of taking it, ii. 203
Cypraeae, or cowries, shells of, ii. 234, 235
Cypris, structure and mode of reproduction of, |207, 208
Cystopteris, characters and habitat of the genus, i. 348, 349
Cystopus candidus, or Uredo Candida, structure, habitat, and mode of
reproduction of, i. 278 Cystopteris fragilis, or brittle bladder fern, structure and habitat of,
i. 349 Cystoseira, structure and habitat of, i. 255 Cystoseireae, habitat of, i. 255 Cyttaria, the food of the Fuegians, i. 292 habitat of the, i. 292
Dactylocalyx pumiceus, spicula and skeleton of, ii. 60 Daphnia pulex, or arborescent water-flea, structure and mode of repro- duction of, ii. 208 Dasya, structure of, i. 241, 242 Dasygloea, structure of, i. 215 Datura sanguinea, intoxicating effect produced by a drink obtained
from, i. 427 Davallia canariensis, or hare's-foot fern, i. 351 DavaUiese, structure and habitat of, i. 350, 351 Bead bodies, agents in the decomposition of our, ii. 67 Decapoda, structure of, ii. 245 Decapods, tribes of the, ii. 188
characters of the, ii. 189 Delesseria alata, structure of, i. 243 Delesseria angustissima, structure of, i. 243 Delesseria sanguinea, structure and habitat of, i. 239 Dematiei, structure of, i. 283 Dendritina elegans, form of, ii. 28
structure of, ii. 32 Dendritina variety of the Peneroplis, characters and habitat of, ii. 32
fossils of, ii. 33 Dennstsedtia, indusium of, i. 350 Deparia prolifera, sorus and indusium of, i. 350 Desmidiacese, structure and development of, i. 191 et seq,
their habitat, i. 195
INDEX. 271
Dextrine, production of in plants, i. 421
Dialysis, as a method of separating and analysing substances, i. 108
what constitutes dialysis, i. 110
Prof. Graham's instrument for, i. 110
an extraordinary result of, i. 110 Diamagnetism, i. 75 Diamond, i. 13, 15
heat required to consume the, i. 15
crystallisation of the, i. 15
its resistance to electricity, i. 90 Dianthine, production of, i. 127 Diastase, production of, in plants, i. 420 Diatoma vulgare, structure and development of, i. 197 Diatomacese, or Brittleworts, found all over the globe, i. 196, 204
variety of forms of, i. 196
structure of, i, 197
development of, i. 200
social plants, i. 205
food for many aquatic ^.nimals, i. 205
fossil deposits of shells of, i. 206
enormous geological changes caused by, i. 206 Dicksonia antarctica, structure of, i. 349 Dicksonia lauata, structure of, i. 349 Dicksonia squamosa, habitat of, i. 349 Dicksoniea;, i. 349
structure of, i. 350 Dicotyledonous, or exogenous, plants, structure and mode of reproduc- tion of, i. 404-428 Dicranei, structure of, i. 329
Dictyopodium trilobum, structure and habitat of, ii. 20 Dictyota, structure of the genus, i. 246
Dictyota dichotoma, structure and mode of reproduction of, i. 247 Dictyotese, structure and mode of reproduction of, i. 246 Dictyurus purpurascens, structure of, i. 242 Diffiugia, structure and minuteness of the shells of, ii. 22
their architecture, ii. 23 Diffiugia pyriformis, structure, and habitat, and mode of propagation of,
ii. 22, 23 Diflfusibility, most substances differ in, i. 109
partial decomposition of definite chemical compounds by, i. 109
reciprocal diffusion of gases through porous plates, i. 111-113 the diffusing instrument used by Prof. Graham, i. 112
272 INDEX.
Digestion, chemical powers causing, ii. 4 Dimorphism, contrasted with isomorphism, ii. 99 Diphyidge, stnicture and habitat of the, ii. 103 Diplaziese, characters of the groiip, i. 352 Diplazivim, structure and fructification of, i. 3o2 Distillation, ordinary, i. 117
destructive, i. 117 of coal, i. 117 Distomata, characters of the, ii. 146 Dracaena Draco, or dragon tree of Teneriffe, i. 387 Drummond's light, how produced, i. 30
the continuous spectra of, i. 132 Dry rot in wood, cause of, i. 266
on various substances, i. 285 Dulses, red, i. 235
Dumontia filiformis, structure of, i. 235 D'Urvillea, structure, fructification, and habitat of, i. 256 Dyes obtained from aniline, i. 122-124
vegetable dyes, i. 124
mordants for cotton when dyed, i. 125
effects of electricity and the east wind on the process of dyeing, i. 126
obtained from preparations of petroleum, i. 127
obtained from lichens, i. 303
blue dye obtained from some club mosses, i. 374
E
Ear-shell, structure of the, ii. 234
Earth, quantity of heat which would be generated if it were arrested in
its orbit, i. 27 and if it struck the sun, i. 28 Eirth light, causes of, i. 68
Earth-worm, structure and food of the, ii. 151, 152 Echinodermata asteroidea, structure, mode of reproduction, and habitat
of, ii. 169-174 Echinodermata crinoi'dea, or stone-lilies, structure, habitat, and mode of
reproduction of, ii, 175, 176 fossil remains of, ii. 175 Echinodermata Echiuoidea, structure and mode of reproduction of, ii.
177-182
INDEX. 273
Echinodennata: fossil Echinidae, ii. 182, 183
Echinodermata Holothuroidea, structure and mode of reproduction of, ii.
183 Echinodermata Sipunculidse, characters of, ii. 186, 187 Echinodermata Synaptidse, characters of the order of, ii. 184, 185 Echinus, structure of, ii. 176, 177 Echinus miliaris, spines of the, ii. 181 Ecklonia, structure and habitat of, i. 252 Ecklonia buccinalis, structure of, i. 250 Ectocarpeae, form, structure, and habitat of, i. 244, 245 Ectocarpus pulsillus, fruit of, i. 245 Effusion of gases by pressure, i. 109, 110
Prof. G-raham's experiments, i. 113 Electricity, i. 30
permanent and regular current of, over the earth, in the atmosphere
and in the surface of the earth, i. 31 thunder and lightning, i. 31
force exerted in the creation of the deep, i. 31 the voltaic battery and. the electro-magnetic induction apparatus,
i. 31, 32 reciprocity of action of electricity and heat, i. 31 electricity produced by chemical action, and conversely, i. 32 intensity of the light and heat of the electric spark, i. 32
produced by fifty Bunsen elements, i. 32 conducting power of charcoal, i. 32 air and glass non-conductors, i, 32 proof of the correlation of heat and electricity, i. 33 motion of the atoms of a conducting wire during the passage of an
electric current, i. 33 effect on a conducting wire of an invariable transit of electricity
sent from the same pole of an inductive apparatus, i. 33 difference between electric and magnetic currents, i. 33 influence of electricity on the aggregation of matter, i. 74 ratio between the specific heat and weight of the atoms of matter, i. 74 influence of magnetism on the stratified appearance of the electric
light, i. 78 extreme heat and light of electric discharges, i. 84
the arc discharge, i. 84 cause of the stratified discharge, i. 85 effect of varied intensity on electric discharges, i. 86, 87 effect of varied resistance on electric discharges, i. 88, 89 varied facility with which substances transmit electricity, i. 90 VOL. II. T
274 INDEX.
Electricity : illustration of the action of electricity and magnetism on . light, i. 90
instances of the correlation of electricity and heat, i. 91
voltaic electricity, and its combination and resolution of substances according to the law of definite proportions, i. 94
Faraday's law of the quantity of electricity required to separate and unite the same atoms, i. 94
superiority of voltaic over static electricity, i. 95
electricity the most powerful instrument of analysis, i. 95
capacity of atoms for electricity, i. 100
a given quantity of electricity required to separate combined substances into their component parts, i. 101
spectrum analysis of the electric spark, i, 138
development of electricity in plants and flowers, i. 430
electric currents in the nerves and muscles of animals, ii. 7 Electro-chemical action in heterogeneous atoms of matter, i. 95 Electro-magnetic induction apparatus, i. 31
Ruhmkorff's, i. 32 Elvellacei, characters of the, i. 290 Empusa Muscse, or fly fungus, i. 274 Encalypta vulgaris, organs of fructification of, i. 326 Encrinites, structure of, ii. 175 Endocarpei, structure and habitat of, i. 310 •
Endocarpon lacteum, structure and organs of reproduction of, i. 299 Endogenous plants, i. 383-403 Enteromorpha, characters of the genus, i. 223 Enteromopha intestinalis, structure and habitat of, i. 223, 224 Entomostraca, characters of the, ii. 203 GntophyteS; characters of the group of, i. 275, 276
sporangia, or spore-cells, of, i. 279 Entozoa, characters of the order of, ii. 144
transformations of the j^oung of the, ii. 146 Eolis, the crowned, structure of, ii. 240, 541
Eozoon Canadense, may be regarded as the first appearance of animal life upon the earth, ii. 54
found in fundamental quartz rocks, ii. 54
structure of, ii. 55
range of its existence, ii. 56 Epipactis palustris, structure and mode of reproduction of, i. 397, 398 Epiphytes, characters of the group of, i. 275 Epithemia, mode of development of, i. 202
Epizoa, or suctorial Crustacea, structure, habitat, and mode of reproduc- tion of, ii. 212
INDEX. 275
Equisetacese, or horse-tails, characters of, i. 367
contrasted with ferns, i. 369
large quantity of silex in, i. 369
size and habitat of fossil and existing species, i. 369 Equisetum giganteum, structure and fructification of, i. 368 Ergot, Cordiceps the second form of, i. 293 Errantia, structure and habitat of the, ii. 156, 157, 161 Erysiphe, mildew formed by, i. 295 Eschara, structure of, ii. 218
Ether, sulphuric absorption of radiant heat by, i. 40 Eucamptodon perichaetialis, leaves of, i. 330 Eucyrtidium, structure of, ii. 20 Eugh'ua acus, structure of, ii. 72 Euglena sanguinea, structure of, ii. 72 Euglena, structure of the genus, ii. 72 Euglyphse, structure and habitat of, ii. 22 Eunice, structure of, ii. 157
mode of reproduction of, ii. 160 Euparmeliacese, characters of the group, i. 304 Euphorbiaceae, or spurgeworts, poisons and food supplied by the, i. 425,
426 Evernia flavieans, colour of, i. 303 Evernia jubata, structure of, i. 302 Evernia vulpina, i. 303
brown dye obtained from, i. 303 Exchange, law of, i. 35
independent proofs of the, i. 35, note Exidia Auricula Judse, or Jew's Ear fungus, structure and fructification
of, i. 266 Exccecaria Agallocha, poison of the, i. 426 Exogenous plants, i. 404-408 Eyes of man, fimgi in, i. 275
Eairy rings of the fields, i. 262 Eaujasina, structure of, ii. 45 Felspar, fluorescence of, i. 66 Fermentation, fungi producing, i. 286-288
minuteness and lowness of organization of the ferments, ii. 68
habitat of the, ii. 68 Fibrin, formation and structure of, in vegetable organisms, i. 423
T 2
276 INDEX.
Pig, common, juices of fruit of, changed into sugar, i. 426
poison of the white juice of the, i. 426 Filariae, structure and mode of reproduction of, ii. 147 Filices, or ferns, structure and habitat of, i. 335
range of non-arborescent ferns, i. 335
number of species in North America, Britain, and in other places, i. 336
development of spores, i. 336, 337
roots and stems of, i. 339
leaf-stalks of, i. 340
fronds of, i. 340, 341
structure of tree-ferns, i. 341
fructification of, i. 341 sori, i. 341, 342 sporangia, i. 342, 343
foundation of the systematic arrangement of the ferns, i. 343 annulate and exannulate ferns, i. 344 Film fern, structure and habitat of, i. 362 Fire-damp of coal mines, i. 118
Fireworks, mode of the obtaining of different colours in, i. 132 Fish, phosphorence of, i. 67 Flowering fern, i. 364 Flowers, absorption of radiant heat by the perfumes of, i. 44
weight of the perfumes, i. 45
chemical combinations forming the perfumes of, i. 97
general structure of flowering plants, i. 378
chemical nature of the colours of, i. 428, 429 Fluorescence, property of, in some solids and liquids, i. 60
Sir D. Brewster's discovery of, i. 66
Professor Stokes's examination of the fluorescent spectra of metals, i. 64
employed in tracing substances in impure chemical solutions, i. 67
rapid absorption accompanied by copious fluorescence, and the converse, i. 67
essential difference between fluorescence and phosphorence, i. 67, 68 Fluorine, i. 18 Fluor spar, i. 18
crystals of, i. 18
acid obtained from, i. 18
fluorescence of, i. 60, 66
absorption of invisible rays by, i. 65
phosphorescence of, i. 66 •Flustra, or sea-mat, structure of the, ii. 218
INDEX. 277
Fly fungus, i. 274
Fontinalei, structure and habitat of, i. 331 Food, miraculous descent of, i. 305 lichens as, i. 305, 308 importance of, to the animal frame, ii. 3 Foot-pound, the, of Mr. Joule, i, 26 unit of mechanical force, i. 26 Foraminifera, structure and geological importance of, ii. 27 various forms of, ii. 28 order of porcellanous foraminifera, ii. 30 order of arenaceous foraminifera, ii. 36 order of vitreous foraminifera, ii. 37
abundance of fossil foraminifera in the sedimentary strata, ii. 52 mode of obtaining casts of, ii. 53 comparison of foraminifera recent and fossil, ii. 53 the Eozoon Canadense, ii. 54
the Carpentaria a link between the foraminifera and sponges, ii. 67 Force, i. 23
store of, eternal and unchangeable, i. 24, 25 cohesion, i. 25
in solids, i. 25 in liquids, i. 25
reciprocal attraction between solids and liquids, i. 25 unit of mechanical force, i. 26 heat generated by impetus, i. 27 unit, or mechanical equivalent of heat, i. 2 9 combustion a case of impetus, i. 30 energy existing in the coal fields on the globe, i. 30 magnetism and electricity, i. 30 influence of force on the aggregation of matter, i. 73 power of electricity in this respect, i. 74 relations between the force of magnetism and atoms of matter 1.75 effect of the physical forces on molecvdar arrangement, i. 91 electricity, i. 91 motion, i. 91 catalysis, i. 91 force of chemical combination, i. 97, 98
relation between chemical affinity and mechanical force, i. 98 Formic acid, synthetical formation of, i. 424 Fragillaria, development of, i. 201 Frauenhofer's lines, i. 129
278 INDEX.
Frond, or thallus, of lichens, i. 301
of ferns, i. 340, 341 Fruit, chemical combinations forming the perfumes of, i. 97
preserved, greenish and grey moulds on, i. 285
fungus on decayed, i. 290 Fucacese, structure and fructification of, i. 244, 250, 251 Fuci, sexual fructification of, i. 253 Fucoidse, habitat of some, i. 256
Fucus platycarpus, male and female cells of, i. 253, 254 Fucus vesiculosus, or bladder- wrack, structure and fructification of, i. 252, 253
form of, in the Mediterranean, i. 258 Fuegians, staple food of the, i. 292 Funaria hygrometrica, structure of, i. 324, 327 Fungi, enormous numbers of, i. 260
structure of, i. 260
two principal groups of, i. 260
lamilies of, i. 261, et seq.
poisonous matter in all, i. 264
luminous, i. 264
stems of, i. 268
spawn of the gelatinous or creamy fungi, i. 269
universality of the lower fungi, i. 273 destruction caused by them, i. 273 parasitic fungi, i. 274
conidium, or spore-dust cell, i. 279
propagation of fungi by fragments of spawn, i. 281
extreme minuteness and profusion of fungi, i. 297
sudden and often disastrous appearance of the lower fungi, i. 297
conditions necessary to the development of fungi, i. 297 Furcellaria fastigiata, mode of reproduction of, i. 229
structure and mode of reproduction of, i. 235, 238 Fusarium tremelloides, its identity with the nettle Peziza, i. 292
G
Graleolaria lutea, structure, development, and mode of reproduction of,
ii. 107, 108 Garancine, from what obtained, i. 124 Gas coal. See Coal gas. Gases, absorption and radiation of radiant heat by gases and vapours, i. 38
INDEX. 279
Gases : relation between the density of the gas and the quantity of heat extinguished or absorbed, i, 40 experiments on coloured gases, i, 40 table showing the absorption of various gases at a common pressure,
or tension of one atmosphere, i. 41 table of absorption for one inch of tension, i. 4 causes of the diSerence between the absorptive power of compound
and simple gases and vapours, i. 42 radiation equal to absorption, i. 46 action of different thicknesses of the same gas or vapour on radiant
heat, i. 47 dynamic absorption and radiation, i. 49 great opacity of a gas to radiations from the same gas, i. 52 the specific heat of compound gases generally greater than that of
their component elements, i. 101 law of equivalency in weight of, i. 102 diffusion of, i. Ill
Prof. Graham's experiments, i. 112 effusion of, 109, 110, 113
Prof. Graham's experiments, i. 113 atmolysis, or method of analysing gases, i. Ill, 112, 114 internal movement of molecules of matter in a gaseous state, i. 1 1 3 coal gas, :. 117
spectrum analysis of, i. 139 oxygen, i. 139 hydrogen, i. 139 nitrogen, i. 140 chlorine, i. 140 bromine, i. 140 iodine, i. 140
superposed spectra of rarefied compound gases, i. 141 researches of M.M. Bunsen and Kirchhoff, i. 141 spectra of the rarefied vapours of: — sodium, i. 141 iron, i. 142 calcium, i. 142 strontium, i. 142 lithium, i. 142 barium, i. 142 magnesium, i. 142
effect of high temperature on various spectra, i. 142, 143 effects of pressure on various spectra, i. 145
28o INDEX.
Gasteromycetes, characters of the family, i. 267 Gastropoda, structure of the shells of, ii. 234
structure of the animal, ii. 235
tongue of the, ii. 239 Gelidiacese, structure and mode of propagation of, i. 238 Gelidium corneum, structure and mode of propagation of, i. 238
form of, i. 243 Gems, crystals of, formed artificially by electricity, i. 74 Geranium, amount of radiant heat absorbed by the perfume of, i. 44 Glass, a non-conductor of electricity, i. 32
property of, in regard to the transmission of light, i. 36
impervious to chemical solar rays, i. 63 Gleicheninese, sporangia of, i. 34
structure and habitat of, i. 344, 360 Globigerina bulloides, form of, ii. 28 Globigerina, structure of the genus, ii. 40, 41 Globigerinse, abundance of at vast depths in the ocean, ii. 49-51 Globigerinidse, characters of the family of, ii. 40 Glycerine, chemical combination forming, i. 97 Glyphidei, characters of the order, i. 309 Glucinum, i. 4 Gold, colour of, in reflected and in absorbed light, i. 35, 36
crystals of, formed artificially by electricity, i. 74 Gonidia, propagation of diatoms by, i. 202, 204
of lichens, i. 300 Goniometer, i. 38
Gorgonia graminea, structure and habitat of, ii. 124, 125 Gorgonia verrucosa, structure, habitat, and mode of reproduction of,
ii. 124 Gorgonidse, structure and mode of reproduction of, ii. 123, 124
the three natural groups of, ii. 124 Gracilaria compressa, i. 239 Gracilaria lichenoides, or Ceylon moss, i. 239 Gracilaria armata, mode of reproduction of, i. 230 Graminacese, structure and mode of reproductiou of, i. 385, 386 Grammatopbora serpentina, structure and development of, i. 197 Graphidei, characters of the order, i. 308
habitat of the, i. 309 Graphite, form of the crystals of, i. 15
natural, little or no porosity of, i. 112
porosity of artifical graphite, i. 112 Grasses, silica in the stalks and leaves of the, i. 1 7
INDEX. 281
Grasses, structure and mode of reproduction of, i, 385-387 Gravitation, force of, less powerful than that of molecular attraction, i.
109 Gravity, specific, of atoms, i. 100 Green dye, obtained from the buckthorn, i. 124 Griffithsia, structxire, habitat, and organs of reproduction of, i. 233 Grimmiei, structure of the tribe, i. 329
Grinnelia americana, structure and mode of reproduction of, i. 230, 239 Gromia oviformis, structure of, ii. 26, 27 Gromiae, structure of the genus, ii. 25-27 Guano, mauve dye obtained from, i. 125
Guernsey, richness of the iodine obtained from the sea-weeds of, i. 258 Guinea worm, structure and mode of reproduction of, ii. 147 Gums, formation of, i. 422
Gymnogramma rutsefolia, remarkable distribution of, i. 336 Gyrophora, structure of the genus, i. 308
H
Hairs of plants, structure of, i. 411
Halichondria panicea, mode of propagation of, ii. 60, 61
Haliomma, structure of, ii. 21
Haliotis splendens, or ear-shell, structure of, ii. 234
Haliseris, structure of, i. 247
Halogens, spectra of the, i. 146
Halurus, structure and mode of propagation of, i. 233
Hare's-foot fern, i. 351
Hart's-tongue fern, caudex of, i, 340
structure, habitat, and fructification of, i. 351, 352 Heart, and organs representing it in the lower animals, ii. 4 Heat generated by impetus, i. 27
quantity of heat which would be generated if it were arrested in its orbit, i. 27
probable cause of the heat of the sun, i. 28
effect of the absorption of heat on a body in expansion and contrac- tion, i. 28
specific heat, i. 28
mechanical equivalent of heat, i. 29
causes of the heat which is the motive force of the steam-engine, i. 29
reciprocal action of heat and electricity, i. 31
282 INDEX.
Heat: intensity of the heat of the electric spark, i. 32 proof of the correlation of heat and electricity, i. 33 constancy in the amount and refrangibility of the light and heat
absorbed and radiated, i. 34 property of some substances in the transmission of heat, i. 36 substances which transmit radiant heat freely but radiate badly, and
vice versa, i. 37 Tyndall's experiments on the radiation and absorption of radiant
heat by gases and vapours, i. 38 relation between the density of the gas and the quantity of heat ex- tinguished or absorbed, i. 40 absorption of radiant heat by the vapours of volatile liquids, i. 40 Prof. Tyndall's experiments showing the radiation to be equal to
the absorption of radiant heat, i. 46 action of different thicknesses of the same gas or vapour on radiant
heat, i. 47 dynamic absorption and radiation, i. 49 dynamical evolution of heat, i. 52
experiment illustrating the change of heat into light, i. 62 polarization of heat and light, i. 68, 69 by reflection and refraction, i, 69
eifect of heat on the magnetism of iron, nickel, and cobalt, i. 77 extreme heat and light of electric discharges, i. 84 instances of the correlation of electricity and heat, i. 91 capacity of atoms for heat, i. 1 00
Mr. Croll's experiments, i. 101 effects of heat on vegetation, i. 169 large amount of heat evolved by vegetables, i. 265 cause of animal heat, ii. 63
Helix, or snail, tentacles of, ii. 236
Helix aspera, structure of the tongue of, ii. 237
Helix pomatia, teeth of, ii. 237
Hellebore, white, poisonous alkaloid of, i. 427
Helmet shell, structure of, ii. 234
Helminthosporium Hoffmanni, spores of, i. 285, 286
Helrainthosporium nodosum, spores of, i. 286.
Helvella, structure and habitat of, i. 291
Hepaticffi, or liverworts, characters of the, i. 316
Hepialus virescens of New Zealand, Cordyceps Eobertsii of the, i. 293
Herschel, Sir W., his discovery of invisible rays of light of high heating power, i. 36
Hewardia, structure of, i. 359
INDEX. 283
Himanthalia lorea, structure, fructification and habitat of, i. 256
Holly fern, structure of, i. 347
Holothuridse, or sea-cucumbers, structure and mode of reproduction of,
ii. 183-186 Hop, fungus constituting the mildew of the, i. 295 Hormosiphon arcticus, wide distribution of, i. 212 Hormotrichum, structure of the genus, i. 222 Hormotrichum collabens, structure and mode of reproduction of,
i. 222 Hyacinth, structure and mode of reproduction of the, i. 388 Hyalsea, structure of the, ii. 242
Hydra fusca, structure and mode of propagation of, ii. 84, 85 Hydra viridis, structure and mode of propagation of, ii. 85 Hydra vulgaris, structure and mode of propagation of, ii. 85 Hydrse, structure of, ii. 81, 84
mode of propagation of, ii. 84
compound fresh-water Hydrse, ii. 85
development of medusa-buds, ii. 95
alternation of generation of hydrse and medusae, ii. 96 Hydraulic machine, bog moss" acts as a, i. 333 Hydridse, characters of the group, ii. 81
Hydrobromic acid, amount of absorption of radiant heat by, i. 42 Hydrochloric acid, absorption of radiant heat by, i. 41, 42 Hydrodictyon utriculatum, structure and habitat of, i. 211
reprodxiction and development of, i. 211 Hydrofluoric acid, i. 18 Hydrogen gas, i. 11
aflB.nity of chlorine for hydrogen, i. 19
absorptive power of, i. 39, 41
proportion of hydrogen to oxygen in the composition of water, i. 94
will not combine with carbon, i. 97
weights of the atoms of, as compared with those of oxygen, i. 99
probable cause of its greater cooling power than that of oxygen, i. 115
one of the illuminants in coal gas, i. 118
spectrum analysis of, i. 139, 144
and of hydrogen, carburetted and attenuated, during and after decomposition, i. 141
carburetted, one of the illuminants in coal gas, i. 118
marsh-gas and fire-damp, i. 118
peroxide of, i. 9
combination forming, i. 104
284 INDEX.
Hydrogen : combines witli other substances and simple atoms as if it were a simple element, i. 106 sulphuretted, amount of absorption of radiant heat by, i. 41 opacity of, to the invisible rays, i. 65 one of the illuminants in coal gas, i. 118 how freed from coal gas, i. 118 Hydrozoa, campanograde, characters of, ii. 103 ciliograde, characters of the, ii. 101 mode of reproduction of, ii. 103 oceanic, structure of, ii. 81, 86 compound oceanic, structure of, ii. 87 medusiform zooids, ii. 88, 89 mode of reproduction of, ii. 89, 90 Hymenocetes, family of, i. 261 Hymenophyllum, stem of, i. 339
Hymenophyllumtunbridgense, or film fern, structure and habitat of, i. 362 Hymenophyllum unilaterale, habitat and structure of, i. 362 Hyphomycetes, characters of the family, i. 282 Hypogaei, structure and fructification of the subterranean sub-order of,
i. 267, 268 Hyponitrous acid, combination forming, i. 95 Hypopterygium Smithianum, leaves of, i. 330
Ice, absorption of invisible rays by, i. 65
believed to be a colloid body, i. 1 1 1 Iceland moss, characters of, i. 304 Iceland spar, polarization of light and heat in, by refraction, i. 69
change of position of the optical axes of the crystals of, by heat, i. 73 Heodictyon, eaten as food, i. 268 Impetus, i. 26, 27
heat generated by, i. 27
combustion a case of, i. 30 Indian rubber, dissolved by naphtha for waterproofing, i. 120 Indium, discovery of the metal so called, i. 137
properties of, i. 137 Infusoria, structure, form, and habitat of, ii. 63
abundance of infusoria in the atmosphere, ii. 63, 64
different states of development in one and the same animal, ii. 65
INDEX. 285
Infusoria : groups of, of opposite characters in the same liquid, ii. 66
the agents in the decomposition of animal matter, ii. 67
minuteness of the ferments, ii. 68
cilia of Infusoria, ii. 68
as organs of locomotion, ii. 69
cell constituting the body of Infusoria, ii. 70
food and organs of digestion of, ii. 70
transparent contractile vesicles, ii. 71
modes of propagation, ii. 74 et seq.
in a state analogous to hybernation, ii. 78, 79
functions assigned to Infusoria in the economy of nature, ii. 79 Insects, phosphorescence of, i. 167
Intelligence, or the mental principle, of animals, ii. 11, 12 Iodine, i. 18, 21
whence obtained, i, 19
properties of, i. 21, 22
spectrum of, i. 21
atomic weight of, compared with that of hydrogen, i. 100
preparation of, from sea -weeds, i. 128
spectrum analysis of, i. 140, 141
iodine richer at Guernsey than elsewhere, i. 258 Iris germanica, vertical section showing the cellular tissue of, i. 173 Iron heated by percussion or impetus, i. 27
eflfect of electricity on, i. 32
effect of magnetism of, i. 75, 76, 77
and of heat on the magnetism of, i. 77
feeble affinity of iron for mercury, i. 98
atomic weight of, compared with that of hydrogen, i. 100
spectrum analysis of the rarefied vapour of, i. 142 Isaria, its structure and habitat, i. 282
its destruction of caterpillars, i. 282, 293 Isaria crassa, characters of, i. 283 Isaria farinosa, characters of, i. 283 Isariacei, structure and habitat of, i. 282 Isidse, structure, habitat, and mode of reproduction of, ii. 125 Isis, structure of the genus, ii. 125 Isomeric substances, i. 104
law of the sequence of three isomeric bodies, and their respective atomic numbers, i. 105 Isomorphism, property of, in determining atomic weights, i. 99 Isomorphous substances, conduct of, under magnetic influence, i. 76 Isopoda, characters of the order, ii. 202
286 INDEX.
Jam, greenish, and grey moulds on, i. 285
Jungermanniacese, or scale mosses, structure, fertilization, and deve- lopment of, i. 320-322 Jupiter, the planet, spectrum of, i. 157, 161 constitution of, i. 158
K
Kelp, i. 258
former and present uses of, i. 128 Kerona silurus, structure and food of, ii.
Labellum of orchides, i. 401 Lactarii, lactiferous vessels of, i. 263 Lady Fern, herbaceous caudex of, i. 340
structure and fructification of, i. 352, 353 Lagenidse, characters and habitat of the family, ii. 39 Lagoons formed by corals, ii. 140-143 Laminaria bulbosa, structure and fruit of, i. 248 Laminaria debilis, structure of, i. 248 Laminaria digitata, or oar-weed, structure of, i. 249
richness of the iodine obtained from, at Guernsey, i. 258 Laminaria radiata, structure, habitat, and fructification of, i. 250 Laminaria saccharina, or devil's apron, structure and mode of reproduc- tion of, i. 249 Laminarise, submarine forests of, i. 248
Lanosa nivalis, the probable cause of the mildew in rye, i. 297 Lastrea, structure of the genus, i. 346 Lastrea semula, structure of, i. 346 Lastrea filis-mas, structure of, i. 340 Lastrea rigida, scent of, i. 347
Lastrea Thelypteris or marsh fern, structure of, i. 346 Latex, structure of the, in plants, i. 417
INDEX. 287
Laughing-gas, or protoxide of nitrogen, combination forming, i. 95 Laurel, oil of, amoimt of radiant heat absorbed by the perfume of, i. 44 Laurencia dasyphylla, antheridia of, i. 241 Laurencia pinnatifida, or pepper dulse, structure, habitat, and mode of
propagation of, i. 241 Laurencia tenuissima, antheridia of, i. 241 Laurenciacese, characters of, i. 240, 241 Laurentian system, ancient formation of the crystallized limestone near
the base of the, ii. 54 Lavender, absorption of radiant heat by the perfume of, i. 44 Lead, its resistance to electricity, i. 90
chloride of, spectrum of, i. 146 Leathesia, structure of, i. 245 Leaves of plants, structure and functions of, i. 410 Lecanora affinis, section of, i. 300
structure ^^nd habitat of, i. 305 Lecanora esculenta, habitat of, i. 305 Lecidea, characters of the genus, i. 306 Lecidea geographica, great age of, i, 306 Lecidinei, characters of the order, i, 306 Leeches, structure of, ii. 149-151
Lemon, amount of radiant heat absorbed by the perfume of, i. 44 Lepadidse, structure of, ii. 213, 215
Lepas anatifera, structure and mode of reproduction of, ii. 215 Lepidodendron, structure of the fossil, i. 375 Lepidostrobus ornatus, structure of, i. 375 Lepralise, structure of, ii. 219 Leptopteris, characters of, i. 364 Lessonia, arborescent, forests of, i. 251 Lessonia nigrescens, structm'e of, i. 251
rings of growth of, i. 252 Leucobrjum, structure of, i. 329 Leucobryum glaucum, leaves of, i. 330 Leveillea, structure of, i. 242 Libanea crab, a parasite of the medusse, ii. 100 Lichens, characters and habitat of, i. 298
two groups of — Grymnocarpei and Angiocarpei, i. 299
horizontal lichens, i. 299
gonidia, i. 300
asci, i. 301
thallus or frond, i. 301
dyes obtained from, 1. 124, 303
288 INDEX.
Lichens : brilliancy of the colours of, i. 304 Lichina, characters of the genus, i. 310 Lichinei, characters of the group, i. 310 Life, the mystery of, i. 97
instances of individual combined with a common life in the lower orders of animals, ii. 38 Light, probable cause of the, of the sun, i. 28 Drummond's light, how produced, i. 30 intensity of the, of the electric spark, i, 32 chemical action of, i. 34
amount of force exerted by the sun's light within the limits of the terrestrial atmosphere, i. 34 constancy of the amount and refrangibility of light and heat
absorbed and radiated, i. 34 causes of colour of flowers, leaves, dyed cloth, and gold and copper,
i. 35, 36 property of some substances in the transmission of radiant light and
heat, i. 36 invisible rays of high heating power existing beyond the red end
of the solar spectrum, i. 36 Melloni's investigation of the laws of radiation and absorption of
radiant heat in solid and liquid matter, i. 38 chemical power of the light of the moon and stars, i. 55 and of solar light, i. 56
effect of the opalescence of the atmosphere on the light of the sun, i. 55 probable causes of the blueness of the sky, and the brightness of
the tints at sun-rise and sun-set, i. 58 solar spectrum, i. 58
myriads of ethereal waves constituting the seven colours of the, i. 58 fluorescent or degraded light, i. 60
experiment illustrating the change of heat into light, i. 62 absorption of invisible rays, by solids, liquids, and gases, i. 65 causes of earth light, i. 66 polarization of light and heat, i. 68, 69
by reflection and refraction, i. 69 relation of polarization to crystallization, i. 70, 71 M. Gassiot's experiments on stratified electric light, i. 78 influence of magnetism on the stratified light, i. 78 cause of the stratified discharge, i. 85 effect of varied intensity on electric discharges, i. 86
INDEX. i89
Light : action of magnetism and electricity on light, i. 90
delicate power of analysis in light, i. 95
Dr. Young's establishment of the undulatory theory of light, i. 129
Drummond's light, i. 132
coloured light obtained from the combustion of the salts of different metals, i. 132
effects of light on vegetation, i. 168, 169
effects of light as an exciting cause in the vegetable world, i. 431 Lightning, spectrum of, i. 1-17 Ligneous tissue, i. 174, 175
Liliacese, structure and development of the, i. 388 Limboriei, structure and habitat of the, i. 310 Lime, carbonate of, different modifications assumed by, i. 74
chloride of, properties of, i. 19
oxalate of, formation of, i. 117 Limestones, probable history of the oldest, iL 52
the nummulitic, ii. 53
the limestone formed by the Eozoon Canadense, ii. 54 Limnoria lignorum, structure Qf, ii. 203 Limpet, structure, food, and habitat of, ii. 238, 239 Lindsseese, characters of, i. 351 Linculus, fossil remains of, ii. 211 Lingbya, structure of, i. 213 Lingula flags, fossil animals composing the, ii. 53 Listera ovata, structure and mode of reproduction of, i. 399 Lithium, i. 3
spectrum analysis of, i. 133
existence of lithium in all three kingdoms of nature, i. 134
spectrum analysis of the rarefied vapour of, i. 142
effect of high temperature, i. 142, 143
chloride of, spectrum of, i. 146 Litmus, or orchil, from what obtained, i, 124, 303
Lituola, structure of the genus, ii. 37 \
Lituolidse, characters of the family of, ii. 36, 37 Liver worts. See Hepaticae Lobophyila angulosa, structure of, ii. 135, 136 Locomotion of some diatoms, i. 204 Lo-hao, a Chinese green dye, i. 124 Loligo vulgare, or squid, structure of, ii. 245, 246 Lomaria, characters of the genus, i. 357 Lomariopsis, characters of, i. 360 Loxades bursaria,. structure of, ii.- 72 VOL. II. U
290 INDEX.
Loxades bursaria, mode of propagation of, ii. 75 Lucifer, characters of the genus, ii. 200
matches, i. 17 Luminosity of the medusae in warm seas, ii. 99
of Annelida, ii. 160
of Pyrosomidse, ii. 226 Lycoperdon giganteum, structure, habitat, and frtiCtification of, i. 267 Lycoperdon, structure and fructification of, i. 267 Lycopodiacese, or club mosses, characters of, i. 373
habitat and fructification of, i. 373, 374
uses to which they have been applied, i. 374 Lycopodium, or wolf s-claw, characters of the genus, i. 374 Lycopodium clavatum, structure and habitat of, i. 374
inflammability of the dried spores of, i. 374 Lycopodium inundatum, structure and habitat of, i. 374 Lygodium articulatum, structure of, i. 363 Lymnea, or pond snail, distoma of the, ii. 146
M
Macrocystis pyrifera, structure, habitat, and fructification of, i. 2G0 Macrura, characters of the, ii. 189
fossil remains of, ii. 211 Madder, dyes obtained from, i. 124, 125 Magenta, or aniline red. Dr. Hofmann's discovery of, i. 122
how produced, i. 122
purple dye produced by mixing it with aniline, i. 123 Magnesium, i. 3, 4
spectrum of, i. 65
spectrum analysis of the rarefied vapour of, i. 142
shown to be one of the metals existing in the sun> i. 151—153
spectrum of the light of a magnesium flame, i. 153, 154
its use in photography, i. 154 Magnetism, i. 30
periodic and secular variations of, i. 30
probably stand in some periodic connection with the solar i^ts i. 30, 31
probable cause of terrestrial magnetism, i. 31
iiflference between magnetic and electric currents, i. 33
INDEX. 291
Magnetism : relations between the force of magnetism and the atoms of matter, i. 75 all substances either magnetic or diamagnetic, i. 75 proof of the connection between the magnetic forces and crystalline
structure, i. 76 conduct of amorphous and isomorphous substances under magne- tic influence, i. 76 action of magnets upon matter most powerful in the line of maxi- mum density, i. 76 conditions of the position which crystals take with regard to the
magnetic force, i. 76 magnetic changes in the relations and distances between the ulti- mate atoms of matter, i. 77 effect of magnetism on the stratified appearance of the electric
light, i. 78 causes of the polarity of a magnet, according to Ampere, i. 80 action of magnetism on the stratified discharges of electric light, i. 82 illustration of the action of magnetism and electricity on light, i. 90 Maiden's hair fern, structure and habitat of, i. 359 Malixis paludosa, or bog malixis, structure and mode of reproduction of,
i. 400 Malic acid, chemical combination forming, i. 97 Manchineel, poison of the, i. 426
Manganese, peroxide of, relative weight of the atoms of oxygen and metal in, i. 99 atomic weight of, compared with that of hydrogen, i. 100 peroxide of, combination forming, i. 104 Manihot, or Cassava, food obtained from the, i. 426 Marasmius Oreades, spawn of, i. 262 Marattia salicina used as food, i. 365 Marattiacese, characters of the group, i. 364 Marchantia polymorpha, structure, development, fructification, and
habitat of, i. 317-320 Marchantiaceae, characters of the order, i, 317 Mars, the planet, spectrum of, i. 158, 161 Marsh-gas, i. 118
amount of absorption of radiant heat by, i. 41 Marsilea, characters of the genus, i. 372 Marsileacese, or Rhizospermse, characters of the tribe, i. 371 Matonineae, characters of the group, i. 344 Matter, molecules of, i. 2
u 2
292 INDEX.
Matter : agency of electricity in the chemical composition and decompo- sition of, i. 32
decomposing and elective power of, i. 35 Mauve, Dr. Hofmann's discovery of the aniline colour, i. 122
at first made from orchil, i. 124
derived from guano, i. 125 Mediterranean sea, zones of algae in the, i. 259
foraminifera, the ooze in the bed of the, ii. 51 Medusae, form and structure of, ii. 91 Medusae, pulmograde, form and structure of, ii. 91, 92 >
naked-eyed medusae, ii. 91-96
mode of reproduction of, ii. 94
armed or stinging medusae, ii. 99
luminosity of, in warm seas, ii. 99
development of medusa-buds, ii. 96
alternation of generation of hydrae and medusae, ii. 96
covered-eyed medusae, ii. 97
parasites of, ii. 99
abundance of species of, ii. 100
food of medusae, ii. 101 Medusa-buds, development of, ii. 95 Medusiform zooids of hydrozoa, ii. 88, 89 Melanconiei, characters of the group of, i. 281, 282 Melanogaster, the red trufiQe of Bath, i. 268 Melanospermeae, characters of, i. 181
marine forests of, i. 244
structure of the, i. 244, et seq. Mercury, conditions under T^-hich he may be habitable, i. 55 Mercury, its feeble affinity for iron, i. 98 Meridion circulare, structure and development of, i. 200, 201 Merulius lacrymans, the cause of dry rot in wood, i. 266 Mesocarpus, reproduction of, i. 217 Mesogloias, structure of, i. 245 Metals and their properties, L 3
alkaline metals, i. 3
of alkaline earths, i. 3
from non-alkaline earths, i. 4
avidity of some of them for oxygen, a. 4
metals whose oxides are not reducible by heat, i. 4 diatomic metals, i. 4 triatomic metals, i. 5
conduction of heat and radiation, ,.i. 5
INDEX. 293
^Metals : vaporization, i. 5
spectra of volatilized metals, i, 64
coloured light obtained from the combustion of the salts of different
metals, i. 132 spectrum of, not always the same, i. 145 number of the metals of which the spectra has been determined
1. 147 metals shown to exist in the sun, i. 151-153
and not to exist in it, i. 154 metals contained in every plant, i. 414 Meteorites probably not of solar origin, i. 15S Mica, opacity of, to the invisible rays, i. 65 Mignonette, weight of the perfume of, i. 45 Mildew of the vine, hop, &c., i. 295
the black mildews of the Azores and Ceylon, i. 297 Miliola, structure and habitat of, ii. 30
abundance of, in the seas of the Eocene period, ii. 31 Miliolidae, characters of the order, ii. 30 Milk sap of plants, i. 425 ;
vessels of plants, i. 417 Milleporse complanata or palinipora, structure of, ii. 141 Mimosa pudica, irritability of the tissues of, i. 432 Mind and matter connection between, ii. 5 Molecules of matter, i. 2 cohesion of, i. 25 unit of mechanical force, i. 26
causes of the ethereal undulating motions of, i. 34, 35 See Atoms Mollusca, structure, habitat, and mode of reproduction of, ii. 229, et scq. shells of the, ii. 232 naked, ii. 240 winged, ii. 240 Monas corpusculus, extreme minuteness of, ii. 63, 67
and of its ova, ii. 67 Monocotyledonous, or endogenous plants, structure, growth, and repro- duction of, i. 383 seeds of this class, i. 383 stems, or axes, i. 384
remarkable plants belonging to the monocotyledons, i. 387 Monostoma, or one-mouthed medusae, structure and mode of repro- duction of, ii. 97 Monormia, habitat and structure of, i. 212
294 INDEX.
Moon, interception of the heat radiated by the full, by the earth' atmosphere, i. 55
its effect on the higher regions of the atmosphere, i. 55
chemical power of the moon's light, i. 55 Moonstone, or adularia, fluorescent property of, i. 66 Moon wort, structure and habitat of, i. 366 Morchella esculenta, the morel, i. 291
catsup made from, i. 292 Mordants for fixing dyes in cotton cloth, i. 125 Morphine, the probable narcotic principle of opium, i. 427 Mother-of-pearl, composition of, ii. 234 Motion, effect of, on molecular arrangement, i. 91 Moulds, fungus, on various substances, i. 285 Mucedines, structure of the, i. 283
the origin of all fermentation, i. 289 Mucorini, or moulds, structures of the, i. 296
habitat of the, i. 296, 297 Muriatic acid, formation of, i. 20
action of, upon ammonia, i. 120 Musci, or Mosses, structure and mode of reproduction of, i. 3
antheridia of, i. 324
sporangia of, i. 325
gemmae or buds, i. 327
leaves of, i, 330
aquatic mosses, i. 331
peat, i. 333
uses of mosses, i, 334 Muscle, structure and functions of, ii. 2
functions of the muscles, ii, 5
electric currents formed in the muscles, ii. 7
muscular respiration, ii. 8 Mushrooms, i. 261
mycelium, or spawn, i. 262 Musk, power of absorption of radiant heat by the perfume of, i. 45 Mussel, structure of the gills of the common, ii. 230 Mycelium or mushroom spawn, i. 261, 262 Mysis, or opossum shrimps, structure of, ii. 199 Myxogastres, structure, habitat, and reproduction of, i. 269, 270
their Amceba-like motions, i. 270
INDEX. «95
N
Nai's, structure and habitat of the, ii. 152, 153 Naphtha, manufacture of, i. 120
uses to which it is applied, i. 120 sources of, in various parts of the world, i. 126 naphtha procured by tne distillation of petroleum, i. 127 Napthalin, production of, i. 127
Narcv)tics, exciting, known to almost all people, however savage, i. 427 Navicula, structure of, i. 198 Naviculae, spontaneous locomotion of, i. 202 Nebulae, spectra of various, i. 158-160, 163 constitution of the, i. 163
probable existence of primordial nebulous matter according to the theories of Sir W. Herschel and La Place, i. 164 Nectria, characters of the genus, i. 295 Nectria Peziza, structure of, i. 295
Nematoid entoza, structure and mode of reproduction of, ii. 146 Nemertes gigas, or great band worm, nervous system of, ii. 158 Neotteae, characters of the British tribe of, i. 397, 398 Neottia Nidus-avis, structure and mode of reproduction of, i. 400 Nephrolepis tuberosa, characters and habitat of, i. 348 Nereis, structure of, ii. 157
Nereis diversicolor, mode of reproduction of, ii. 160 Nereocystis Lutkeana, structure and habitat of, i. 249 NeiT^e-force of animals, ii. 4, 6
chemical powers generated by, ii. 6 Nerves of animals, structure and functions of, ii. 5 electric currents in tlie, ii. 7
structure and functions of the brain and spinal cord, ii. 8 the nervous systems of the higher and lower animals, ii. 9-11 Nervous system of animals, ii. 5 Nickel, i. 4, 5
crystals of, formed artificially by electricity, i. 74 effect of heat on the magnetism of, i. 77 atomic weight of, compared with that of hydrogen^ i. 100 Nidulariacei, characters of the order of, i. 272, 273 structure and mode of reproduction of, i. 273 habitat of, i. 273 Nitella flexilis, structure and mode of reproduction of, i. 312 Nitophyllum, st,iTjcture and fronds of, i.,238, 239
296 INDEX.
Nitric acid, combination forming, i. 95 Nitrogen gas, i. 12
combination of nitrogen with chlorine, i, 20
absorptive power of, i. 39, 41
fulminates compounds of, i. 92
number of combinations of, with oxygen, i. 95
atomic weight of, compared with that of hydrogen, i. 100
one of the illuminants in coal gas, i. 118
spectrum analysis of, i. 140, 145 in high temperature, i. 144
binoxide of, combination forming, i. 95
chloride of, catalysis of, i. 91
iodide of, catalysis of, i. 91
protoxide of, or laughing gas, combination forming, i. 95 Nitrous oxide, absorption of, radiant heat by, i, 41, 43
combination forming, i. 95 Noctiluca miliaris, structure and mode of propagatio-n of, ii. 73, 74 Noctiluci, their food, i. 205 Nodosaria, characters of the genus, ii. 39 Nodosaria rugosa, shell of, ii. 28
structure of, ii. 39 Nodosaria spinicosta, form of, ii. 28
structure of, ii. 39 Nostoc commune, wide distribution of, i. 212 Nostochinese, structure and habitat of, 211
reproduction of, i. 212
wide distribution of, i. 212 Nullipores, structure and habitat of, i. 142 Nummulites, structure of the, ii. 44-46
circumstances favouring their existence in the Tertiary period, ii. 5*i
Ocean, force exerted in the creation of the, i. 31
Octoblepharum albidum, leaves of, i. 330
Octopoda, structure of, ii. 245
Octopus vulgaris, or poulpe, structure of, ii. 245-247
Odonthalia, structure of, 242
CEdogonian capillare, reproduction of, i. 216
Oidium, structure and habitat of, i. 290
Oidium Tuckeri, or vine mildew, fungus producing, i. 295
INDEX, 297
Oils, dead, manufacture of, i. 120
essential, chemical combinations forming, i. 97
•vegetable, i. 422
formation of fixed and essential, artificially, i. 424 Oleandria, characters of the genus, i. 347 Oleandria neriiformis, structure of, i. 347 defiant gas, absorptive power of, i. 39, 40, 41
amount of absorptive power, i. 41
great absorption of, i. 47
formation of, i. 97
amount of carbon in, i. 105
one of the illuminants in coal gas, i. 118
chemical composition of, i. 128 defiant oil, i. 104 Olive oil, i. 422
Onion, structure and mode of reproduction of, i. 388 Oniscus, common wood-louse or slater, structure of the, ii. 202 Onoclea, characters of the genus, i. 348 Onoclea sensibilis, characters and habitat of, i. 348 Oolina clavata, shell of, ii. 2^ Opacity in liquids and solids synonymous with accord, i. 37
causes of opacity, i. 37 Operculina, structure of, ii. 38, 46
an instance of an individual combined with a common life, ii. 38. Ophioglossacese, character's of the group, i. 365 Ophioglossum, characters of the genus, i. 365 Ophioglossum vulgatum, structure and habitat of, i. 365 Ophiouyx, structure of, ii. 173 Ophiuridse, or snake stars, structure of, ii. 172, 173
power of reproducing rays, ii. 1 73 Ophrys apifera, or bee ophrys, structure and mode of reproduction of,
i.397 Ophrys, fly, structure and mode of reproduction of, i. 396 Opium, alkaloids obtained from, i. 427
almost universal use of, in the East, i. 427 Orange, amount of radiant heat absorbed by the perfume of, i. 44
fructification of the, i. 381 Oranges, fungus of decayed, i. 290 Orbitolite, characters of the, ii. 33
a fossil gigantic one found in Canada, ii. 54 Orbitolites eomplanatus, structure of, ii. 33, 34
298 INDEX,
Orbitolites: development and varieties of, ii. 35, 36
habitat of, ii. 36 Orchidg, their structure, habitat, and mode of reproduction, i. 388-403
theoretical structure of, i. 403 Orchil, whence obtained, i. 303 from what obtained, i. 124 Orchis mascula, structure and mode of reproduction of, i. 389, et seq. Orchis pyramidalis, structure and mode of reproduction of, i. 393, et seq. Oscillatoria littoralis, structure and motions of, i. 213 Oscillatoria spiralis, motions of, i. 213 Oscillatorise, structure, habitat, and motions of, i. 213
reproduction of, i. 214 Osmunda regalis, structure and habitat of, i. 363 Osmundinese, characters of, i. 363
sporangia of, i. 343
characters of the group, i. 345 Ostrapods, characters of the, ii. 207 Otolites of Gasteropoda, ii. 236 Otolites of Thaumantias, ii. 93 Ovulata, siliceous skeleton of, ii. 60 Oxalic acid, former and present modes of making, i. 116
produced by lichens, i. 303
synthetical formation of, i. 424 Oxygen, i. 6-11
effect of the combination of the atoms of oxygen and carbon in com- bustion, i. 30
absorptive power of ozonized oxygen, i. 43
absorptive power of, i. 39, 41
proportion of oxygen to hydrogen in the composition of water, i. 94
limit to the number of combustions of, with nitrogen, i. 95
weight of the atoms of, in the peroxide of manganese, i. 99
weight of the atoms of, compared with those of hydrogen, i. 99, 100
spectrum analysis of, i. 139
inhalation and exhalation of, by plants, i. 416, 417 Oysters, iodine found in, i, 19 Ozone, i. 7-
effect of the combination of ozone and oxygen in the absorption of radiant heat, i. 43
Prof. Tyndall's conjecture as to the production of ozone,' i. 44
its affinity for iodine, i. 96
its possible effect on the solar spectrum, i. 132
production of, i. 17
INDEX. 'i^9
Padanus or screw pine, roots and habitat of, i. 387 Padina Pavonia, or Peacock's tail laver, structure of, i. 247 Pagui-us, or hermit crab, structure and mode of reproduction of, ii. 197 Palm, stem or axis of a, i. 384
growth and reproduction of palms, i. 384, 385 Palmogloea macrococca, structure and development of, i. 182 Palmyra palm, growth of the stem of, i. 385 Papillaris, siliceous skeleton of, ii. 60 Paraffin, i. 105
crystals of, how produced, i. 127 Paraffin oil and candles, i. 119, 127 Paramcecium caudatum, cilia and mouth of, ii. 68, 69
immense propagation of, ii. 74 Parkeriaceae, or Ceratopteridinese, structure and habitat of, i. 363 Parmelia saxatilis, structure and habitat of, i. 305 Parmeliacei, structure of the, i. 302
characters of the group, i. 304 Parmelia parcolerina, yellow dye obtained from the, i. 124 Parmelia parietina, dye obtained from, i. 303 Passalus cornutus, parasitic fungus in the stomach of, i. 274 Patchouli, amount of radiant heat absorbed by the perfume of, i. 44 Patellidse, or limpets, structure, food, and habitat of, 238, 239 Paulia perforata, organs of reproduction of, i. 301 Pea mildew, fungus producing the, i. 295 Peach, cause of blistered leaves of the, i, 291 Pear, cause of blistered leaves of the, i. 291 Pearl oyster, nacreous lining of shell of, ii. 234 Pease, caserne obtained from, i. 125 Peat, and peat mosses, i. 333 Pecten, or scallop, eyes of the, ii. 235 Pediastrum, structure and development of, i. 194 Pedicellaria globosa, structvire of, ii. 180 Pelagia, structure and mode of reproduction of, ii. 97 Peltigeri, characters of the group, i. 305 Peneroplis, structure of, ii. 31, 32 Penicillia mould, structure of the, i. 285 Penicillium armeniacum, spores of, i. 285, 286 Penicillium candidum, production of, i. 287 Penicillium glaucum, structure and habitat of, i. 286, 2S7
300 INDEX.
Penicillium glaucum : its polymorphous character, i. 287 in the yeast of Leer, i. 288 its production of acetic fermentation, i. 288 Pennatula phosphorea, structure and habitat of, ii. 128
modes of reproduction of, ii. 129 Pennatulidse, or sea-pens, structure, habitat, and mode of reproduc- tion of, ii. 128, 129 Pentacrinites, structure of, ii. 175
Pentacrinus caput-Medusae, structure and habitat of, ii. 175 Pentacrinus Europseus, structure of, and change to acomatula, ii. 176 Peppermint, absorption of radiant heat by the perfume of, i. 44 Peranemese, or Woodsiese, characters of the group, i. 350 Perfumes of flowers and plants, absorption of radiant heat by the, i. 44 ■weight of the perfiimes, i. 45 chemical combinations forming, i. 97 Peridinium, structure and habitat of, ii. 72
scarlet colour it gives to the sea, ii. 72, 75 mode of propagation of, ii. 75 Perisporacei, structure and habitat of, i, 295 Periwinkle, tongue of, ii. 239
Peronospora infestans, its destruction of the potato, i. 284 structure and mode of working, i. 284, 285 its effects on the branches and wood of trees, i. 285 Perophora Listeri, structure, habitat, and development of, ii. 222, 223
larva of, ii. 224 Petroleum, enormous quantities of, in North America, i. 126 the Babylonian petroleum fountains of Is, i. 126 geological formation in which it occurs, i. 126 dangers of petroleum wells, i. 127
substances yielded by it on destructive distillation, i. 127 Peyssonelia, habitat of, i. 237
Peziza aurantia, cells of staff-shaped particles of, i. 291 Peziza elegans, beauty and habitat of, i. 291 Peziza vesiculosa, force of its ejection of its sporidia, i. 292 Pezizse, structure and habitat of the genus, i. 290, 291 fructification of, i. 291
eel-shaped particles or antherozoids of, i. 292 force with which many of them eject their sporidia, i. 292 Phacopsis, organs of reproduction of, i. 307 Phalloidei, structure of, i. 268 Phallus Mokusin, a food of the Chinese, i. 268 Phascei, characters of, i. 329
INDEX. 301
Phenic acid, i. 123
Phenyle, chemical composition of, i. 128 Philomedusa Vogtii, a parasite of the medusae, ii. 100 Phonolite stono, on the Rhine, of what it consists, i. 206 Phosphorescence, property of, i. 66
of insects, fish, and plants, i. 67
of inorganic substances, i. 67
essential difference between phosphorescence and fluorescence, i. 67, 68 Phosphorescent light of luminous fungi, i. 264
causes of this, i. 264 Phosphorus, i. 17
whence procured, i. 17
red allotropic, i. 17
takes fire spontaneously in chlorine gas, i. 19
atomic weight of, compared with that of hydrogen, i. 100 Photography, importance of the magnesium light in, i. 154 Phyllodoce, structure of, ii. 157 Phyllopoda, characters of the erder, ii. 209 Physalia, or * Spanish man-of-war,' structure, and modes of locomotion
and reproduction of, ii. 111-114 Physaliidse, characters of the order, ii. Ill Pbysomycetes, characters of the order, i, 296 Physophora hydrostatica, structure and habitat of, ii. 109, 110 Physophoridse, characters of the family of the, ii. 109-111 Pillwort, structure and habitat of, i. 371, 372 Pilularia globulifera, or pillwort, structure and habitat of, i. 371 Pilularia minuta, structure of, i. 371 Pinna, structure of the shell of, ii. 233 Pitch, manufacture of, i. 120 Planets, spectra of the, i. 157, 158, 161, 162 Plants, absorption of radiant heat by the perfumes of, i. 44
weight of the perfumes, i. 45
phosphorescence of, i. 67
their synthetic process of rearing their fabrics, i. 96
this process imitated by artificial means, i. 96
chemical nature of the colouring matter of, i. 428, 429 Platinum, properties of, i. 5
how vaporized, i. 30
effect of electricity on, i. 32
crystals of, formed artificially by electricity, i. 74
its resistance to electricity, i. 90
302 INDEX.
Plenrocarpi, characters and habitat of the group, i. 328 Pleurosigma angulatum, structure of, i. 198, 199 Plumbago, or natural graphite, little or no porosity of, i. 11 2 Podocyrtis Schomburgi, structure and habitat of, ii. 20, 21
fossil and existing species of, ii. 20 Poisons, vegetable, i. 425, 426 Polarization of light and heat, i. 68, 69
relation of polarization of light and heat to crystallization, i. 70, 71 Pollen of flowering plants, i. 379 Polyatomic theory, the, i. 107 Polycistina, structure and habitat of the, ii. 19, 20 Polydes rotundis, mode of reproduction of, i. 229 Polygastria, a name for the Infusoria, ii. 71
Polyides rotundus, structure and mode of propagation of, i. 237, 238 Polynoe, structure of, ii. 160 Polypary of the Alcyon zoophytes, ii. 123 Polypes. See Hydrozoa Polypodiacese, characters of the order, i. 344
sporangia of, i. 343 Polypodineae, characters of the group, i. 344
habitat of the, i. 345 Pol}^odium, structure and habitat of the genus, i. 345
Tulgare, fronds of, i. 340, 345
sori of, i. 342, 345
structure of, i. 345 Polyporei, structure, habitat, and growth of, i. 264, 265 Polysiphonia, structure of the genus, i. 233
Polysiphonia elcngata, structure and mode of propagation of, i. 234 Polystichum, characters of the genus, i. 347
sorus and indusium of, i. 347 Polystichum aculeatum, characters of, i. 348 Polystichum angularum, characters of, i. 348 Polystichum Lonchitis, structure of, i. 347 Polystichum proliferum, organs of reproduction of, i. 348 Polystomella, characters of the genus, ii. 47 Polystomella crispa, form of, ii. 28
structure and habitat of, ii. 47, 48
cristata, form of, ii. 28
striato-punctata, habitat of the, ii. 48 Polytrichei, characters of the tribe, i. 329 Polytrichum commune, organs of fructification of, i, 325 Polytrichum dendroides, structure of, i. 329
INDEX. 305
Polyzoa, or Bryozoa, characters of, ii. 218
Polyzonia cuneifolia, structure of, i. 242, 243
Porites, or reef-building corals, ii. 140
Porph}Ta laciniata, structure and habitat of, i. 227
Porphyra vulgaris, structure, habitat, and mode of reproduction of, i. 227
Porpita, characters of the genus, ii. 117
glandifera, structure, habitat, and mode of reproduction of, ii. 117, 118 Potash, caustic, effect of the heating of, by an electric discharge, i. 84
its effect on electricity in a vacuum tiibe, i. 86
cyanite of, combination forming, i. 106
nitrate of, its opacity to the invisible rays, i. 65
oxalate of, formation of, i. 117
violet coloured light obtained by the combustion of, i. 133
in the land plants, i. 414 Potassium, i. 3
affinity for oxygen, i. 96
atomic weight of, compared with that of hydrogen, i. 100
one of an isomeric triad with cicsium and rubidium, i. 105
iodide of, whence obtained, i. 19 Potato, fungi causing the murrain in the, i. 284, 285
mode in which the injury is done, i. 284
poisonous nature of the leaves and berries of the, i. 426, 427 Poulpe, structure of the, ii. 245
Praya diphys, structure and mode of reproduction of, ii. 103-106 Propagation of diatoms by bisection, by conjugation, and by gonidia,
i. 200 Protein produced by plants, i. 419 Protococcus pluvialis, structure and development of, i. 184
cycles of reproduction, i. 186 Protococcus viridis, abundance of, found in dust from Egypt, ii. 65 Protophytes, structure and development of, i. 182 Protoplasm of plants, structure and function of, i. 412, 413 Protozoa, structure of the, ii. 13 Pteridse, characters of the group, i. 357 •
Pteris, characters of the genus, i. 357 Pteris aquilina, stems of, i. 339
or bracken, structure, mode of reproduction, and habitat of, i. 357, 358 Pteris esculenta of New Zealand, i. 358 Pteris serrulata, development of spores of, i. 337
antheridium and spermatozoids of, i. 338
304 INDEX,
Pteris serrulata : archegonixitn of, i. 338
Puccinise, structure and habitat of the sub-order, i. 276, 277
Puccinia Amorphse, spores of, i. 276
Puceinia Fabse, structure, habitat, and method of reproduction of, i. 280
alternation of generations of, i. 280 Puccinia Graminis, spore-cases of, i. 280 Puccinia lateripes, spores of, i. 276 Puff-balls of the meadows, i. 267 Purple dyes, i. 123, 124
Pycnogonoidea, or spider crabs, structure and habitat of, ii. 211 Pyrosomidae, structure and mode of reproduction of the, ii. 225 Pyxinei, characters of the, i. 307
Q
Quartz, rock-crystal the purest form of, i. 1 7
certain thickness of, not transparent to invisible rays of light, i. 65
axis of symmetry of, i. 72
aqueous solution of, i. 110
characteristics of the, i. Ill Queen conch, shell of, ii. 234 Quinine, structure of, and whence obtained, i. 427 Quinqueloculina Bronniana, form of, ii. 228
R
Eadiation of light and heat, i. 34, 35
effects of, i. 35, 36
generally independent of colour, i. 36
Professor Tyndall's experiments, i. 38
experiments showing radiation to be equal to absorption, i. 46
dynamic radiation, i. 49
absorption a phenomenon irrespective of aggregation, i. 53 Eadicles, compound, i. 106 Ramalina calicaris, gluten of, i. 303 Ramalina polymorphum, dyes obtained from, i. 303 Ramalina xopulorum, dyes of, i. 303 Eaphides, structure and formation of, i. 424, 425 Eed Sea, foraminifera in the, ii. 61
INDi:X. 305
Eeed, cordiceps on the ergot of the, i. 293
Eeed, Italian, vegetable tissues represented in, i. 175, 176
Keef-building corals, ii. 138-142
Eeefs, barrier, formation of, ii. 143
Kesius, formation of, i. 422
Kespiration, chemical powers causing, ii. 4
Eespiration of the muscles, ii. 8
Eeticularia, characters of the order, ii. 24
Eeticularia maxima of cucumber beds, i. 269
Ehabdonia Coulteri, mode of propagation of, i. 236
Ehamnus cathartica, M. Charwin's discovery of a green dye obtained
from the, i. 124 Ehizocrinus Lofotensis, structure of, ii. 175 Ehizopoda, structure of the, ii. 13
simple Ehizopods, forms of, ii. 22 Ehizoselenia, enormous masses of, in the Indian Ocean, i. 205 Ehizospermse. See Marsileacese
Ehizostoma, or many-mouthed medusae, structure and mode of repro- duction of, ii. 97, 98
food of, ii. 98 ■
Ehodomelacese, structure &c. of, i. 241 Ehodospermese, characters of the, i. 180
structure and mode of reproduction of, i. 227, et seq.
causes which affect the form and limits of, i. 243 Ehodymenia palmata, structure and mode of reproduction of, i. 236 Ehodymeniacege, structure of, i. 236
Eicciacese, or Crystalworts, characters of the order, i. 316 Eichmond, in Virginia, siliceous deposit upon which it stands, i. 206 Eiella, characters of the genus, i. 316, 317 Eivularia, structure of the genus, i. 213, 215 Eivularia nitida, structure and motions of, i. 213, 215 Eocella fuciformes, dye and orchil obtained from, i. 303 Eocella tinctoria and fusiformis, blue and purple dyes obtained from,
i. 124 Eock-crystal, formation of, i. 17 Eock-salt, chlorine obtained from, i. 18
permeable to radiant heat but radiates badly, i. 37 Eoots, downward tendency of, i. 382
structure and functions of, i. 409 Eosalina ornata, structure of, ii. 41 Eosaniline, or roseine, the base of aniline, i. 123
production of, i. 123 VOL. II. X
3o6 INDEX.
Rosaniline, chemical composition of, i. 128
Eosemary, amount of radiant heat absorbed by the perfume of i. 44
Roses, otto of, amount of radiant heat absorbed by the perfume of, i. 44
Rotalia, structure of, ii. 38
Rotalia Beccarii, habitat and structure of, ii. 42
Eotaline group of foraminifera, ii. 44
Rotifer, common, structure of the, ii. 167
Rotifera, characters of the, ii. 162
mode of reproduction of the, ii. 162 Rubia tinctorum, madder obtained from the roots of, i. 124 Rubidium, i. 3, 4
atomic weight of, compared with that of hydrogen, i, 1 00
one of an isomeric triad with caesium and potassium, i. 105
M. Bunsen's discovery of the metal by spectrum analysis, i. 134, 135
mode of distinguishing it from potassium, i. 135
properties of, i. 136
where found, i. 136 Ruby, i. 4
RuhmkorflP's electro-magnetic induction apparatus, i. 32 Russulse, lactiferous vessels of, i. 263 Rust of wheat, i. 281
Rye, probable cause of the mildew of, i. 29/ Rytiphsea pinastroides, antheridia of, i. 243 Rytiphlsea tinctoria, antheridia of, i. 242
Saflfron, meadow, poisonous alkaloid obtained from, i. 427 Sagarta miniata, structure and habitat of, ii. 132
its deadly weapons, ii. 132, 133 Salpa maxima, structure of, 226, 227 Salpa mucronata, vast shoals of, ii. 228 Salpa zonaria, young of, ii. 227 Salpi, their food, i. 205 Salpidae, characters of the, ii. 226-228 Salt, change of volume of, by chemical combination, i, 20
partial decomposition of, by diffusion, i. Ill
yellow coloured light produced by the combustion of, i. 132
spectrum analysis of i. 134
INDEX. so?
Salt : more universally diffused than any other matter, i. 134
spectrum analysis of the rarefied vapour of, i. 141 Sand of the sea-shore, the debris of quartz rocks, i. 17 Sandal wood, amount of radiant heat absorbed by the perfume of, i. 44 Sandhopper, structure of the, ii. 201, 202 Sap milk, composition and formation of, i. 425 Sapindacese, or soapworts, fruits of, innocuous, i. 426 Sapphire, i, 4
Sapphirina fulgens, structure and habitat of, ii. 204, 205 Sarcode, structure and functions of, ii. 2 Sarcophycus of the Antarctic Ocean, i. 256 Sarcophycus potatorum, fruit of, i. 256 Sargassum, habitat of the, i. 255
Sargassum bacciferum, structure, fructification, and habitat of, i. 257 Sargassum vulgare, structure, fruit, and habitat of, i. 257 Saturn, the planet, spectrum of, i. 158, 161 Sausages, fatal effects caused by, i. 285 Saw-dust, manufacture of into oxalic acid, i. 116, 117 Scalariae, tongues of, ii. 239 Scallop, or pecten, eyes of the, li. 235 Schistocarpi, characters of the group, i. 328 Schistostegei, structure and habitat of, i. 331 Schizaea, structure of, i. 363 Schizseinese, characters of the, i. 363
sporangia of, i. 343
characters of the group, i. 345 Sclerogen, i. 175
production of, in plants, i. 421 Scolopendriese, characters of, i. 351, 352
Scolopendrium, structure and development of the caudex of, i. 340 Scolopendrium vulgare, or Hart's-tongue fern, structure, fructification,
and habitat of, i. 351, 352 Screw pine, roots and habitat of, i. 387 Scutella, spines of the, ii. 180 Scutula, organs of reproduction of, i. 307 Sea-cucumbers, structure and mode of reproduction of, ii. 183 Sea-eggs, or sea-urchins, structure of, ii. 176 et seq. Sea-fans, structure of the, ii. 125 Sea-mat, structure of, ii. 218 Sea-nettles, vast shoals of, ii. 100, 101 Sea-pens, structure of, ii. 128, 129-131 Sea-salt, chlorine obtained from, i. 18
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3o8 INDEX.
Sea-serpent of Celebes, ii. 186
Sea-slugs, strvicture of, ii. 239, 240
Sea- weeds, former and present uses of, i. 128
Seeds of two lobes, i. 177
of one lobe, i. 177
of plants, i. 381, 382, 383, 404 Selagiuella, structure and habitat of, i. 374 Selenium, atomic weight of, i, 105
its properties analogous with those of sulphur and tellurium, i. 105 Sepedonium mycophilum, spores of, i. 286 Sepia, or cuttle fish, structui'e of, ii. 245, 246, 247 Serpentine marble of Tyree and of Connemara, composition of, ii. 56 Serpula, structure of, ii. 155 Sertularia cupressina, structure of, ii. 87 Sertulariidse, characters of the family of, ii. 90, 91
modes of propagation of, ii. 91 Shells of mollusks, ii. 234 Shrimps, opossum, ii. 199, 200 Sigillaria, structure of the fossil, i. 375 Silex, quantity of, in the Equisetacese, i. 369
in the grasses, i. 386 Silica, abundance of, i. 17
in the stalks and leaves of the grasses, i. 386
effect of electricity on, i. 32 Silicon, i. 17
combined with oxygen gas forms rock-crystal, i 17
three different states in which it exists, i. 18
analogy between silicon and carbon, i. 1 8
Professor Graham's limpid solution of, i. 18 Silk, dyes for, i. 125
mode of preparing it if it is to be moire, i. 125
advantages of the climate of Lyons in the manufacture of, i. 126 Silk-worm, a fungus parasite of the, i. 274 Silver, affinity of, for oxygen, i. 5
conduction of heat and radiation, i. 5
iodine found in combination with, i. 19
crystals of, formed artificially by electricity, i. 74
transmissive power of, of electricity, i. 90 Sipunculidae, structure and mode of reproduction of, ii. 186, 187 Sky, probable cause of the blue colour of the, i, 58 Slate, polishing, of Bilin, of what it consists, i. 206 Smoke, i. 14
INDEX. 3Q9
Smut of wheat, i. 281
Snails, structure of, ii. 235-237
Soda, chlorate of, singular property of, in crystallization, i. 7')
Soda, oxalate of, formation of, i. 117
Soda, silicate of, i. 110
Prof. Graham's dialysis of, i. 110 Soda, former and present mode of procuring, i. 128
yellow coloured light produced by the combustion of, i. 132 abundance in the Algge, i. 414 Sodium, i. 3
atomic weight of, compared with that of hydrogen, i. 100 spectrum analysis of the rarefied vapour of, i. 141 chloride of, spectrum of, i. 146
reversion of the coloured lines of sodium burning in air, i. 150 Solar spectrum, i. 58
myriads of ethereal waves constituting the seven colours of the,
i. 58 rayless spaces crossing the, at right angles, i. 59 length of the undulations of the ether producing the impression of
the colours of the solar spectrum, i. 59 mode of bringing the invisible rays of the chemical spectrum before
the human eye, i. 59 fluorescen<'e and calorescence, i. 60-62 experiments producing the long spectrum, i. 63 spectra of volatilized metals, i. 64 absorption of invisible rays, i, 65 discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton of the solar spectrum and the laws
of coloured rings, i. 129 Fraunhofer's lines, i. 129, 148
MM. Bunsenand Kirchhoff's experiments, i. 130, 148 Mr. Glaisher's experiments, i. 130 absorption bands, i. 131
Sir D. Brewster's discovery, i. 131 coincident dark and coloured lines, i. 148 reversion of the coloured lines, i. 149 Prof. J. P. Cook's discoveries, i. 149 M. Foucault's discoveries, 1. 149
M. Kirchhoff's discovery of the law of exchanges, i, 150 metals shown by MM, Kirchhoff and Angstrom to exist in the sun, i. 151-153 and those proved to have no existence in the sim, i. 154 Solferino, production of, i. 127
3IO INDEX.
Salids, the specific heat of compound, generally greater than that of their
component elements, i, 101 Solorina, structure of the genus, i. 305 Solorina crocea, structure of, i. 306 Solorina saccata, structure of, i. 305 Space, matter wandering in, i, 28
Spearmint, absorption of radiant heat by the perfume of, i. 44 Specific gravity, i. 26
unit of, i. 26 Spectra, continuous, from glowing solids and liquids, i. 132 spectrum analysis, i. 133
experiments of Sir David Brewster and Mr. Fox Talbot, i. 133 spectrum of rubidium and caesium, i. 136 of thallium, i. 136, 137 of indium, i. 137
of the flame of the iron in the manufacture of the Besse- mer steel, i. 137, 138 of gases, i. 139, et seq.
efifect of high temperature on various spectra, i. 142-
144 effects of pressure on a variety of gases and vapours, i. 145 of metals not always the same, i. 145 of the halogens, i. 146
of the vaporized mixture of five chlorides, i. 147 of lightning, 147 of the sun. See Solar spectrum of the fixed stars, i. 155, 162, 163 of temporary and periodic stars, i. 156, 157 of the planets, i. 157, 158, 161 of various nebulae, i. 158-160 Spermatozoidsof confervacese, i. 210 Sphseria aquila, structure and habitat of, i. 295 Sphseria bombarda, structure of, i. 295 Sphaeria, candle-snuff, habitat of, i. 295 Sphseria Desmazierii, development of, i. 294 Sphseria miliaris, characters of, i. 283 Sphaeriacei, characters and habitat of the order, i. 293
development of, i. 294 Sphaerobolus, force with which its sporangium is ejected, i. 273 Sphserococcoidese, characters of the, i. 238 Sphserococcus coronopifolius, mode of reproduction of, i. 236, 238
INDEX. 311'
Sphseroccus, habitat of the genus, i. 239 Sphserophorei, characters of the, i. 310
Sphseroplea annulina, structure and reproduction of, i. 208, 209 Sphagnei, characters of, i. 331 Sphagnum latifolium, leaves of, i. 330
Sphagnum, or common bog-moss, structure, fructification, and habitat of, i. 332
uses of, in Lapland, i. 334 Spikenard, amount of radiant heat absorbed by the perfume of, i. 44 Spinal cord, structure and functions of the, ii. 8 Spines of plants, structure and formation of, i. 411 Spirogyra, mode of reproduction of, i. 218 Spirulina tenuissima, motions of, i. 213 Splachnei, characters of the tribe, i. 330 Splachnum ampuUaceum, structure and habitat of, i. 331 Splachnum rasculosum, structiu'e and colour of, i. 330 Spondylus gsedaropus, eyes of the, ii. 235 Sponges, iodine found in, i. 19 Sponges, the Carpentaria a link between the foraminifera and the, ii. 57
structure and development of, ii. 57
varieties in size, structure, and habits of the marine sponges, ii. 60
propagation of, ii. 60, 61
structure of fresh-water sponges, ii. 61
fossil sponges, ii. 62 Spongilla fluviatilis, structure and development, and propagation of,
ii. 61 Spongiocarpege, structure and mode of propagation of, i. 237, 238 Spores of Cryptogamia, i. 177, 178 Sporidia, or spore-bearing cells, of Ascomycetes, i. 290 Sporidiiferi, structure and fructification of, i. 260
orders of, i. 260, 261 Sporiferi, structure and fructification of, i. 260
orders of, i. 260 Sporopodium Leprieurii, ascus of, i. 300 Spurgeworts, poisons and food supplied by the, i. 425, 426 Squamarise, structure and modes of propagation of, i. 237 Squid, structure of the, ii. 245, 246 Squilla Desmarestii, structure of, ii. 198 Squilla mantis, structure of, ii. 198 Stamens of flowering plants, i. 379 Starch, production of, by plants, i. 420 Star-fishes, structure of, ii. 169
312 INDEX.
Stars, absorption of the heat radiated by the, by the earth's atmo- sphere, i. 55
chemical power of the light of the, i. 55 Stars, falling, i. 28 Stars, fixed, constitution and spectra of the, i. 154, 155, 162, 163
spectra of periodic stars, i. 156 Staurastrum, structure and development of various species of, i. 192 Steam-engine, equivalence between the mechanical work and heat of the, as between cause and effect, i. 29
causes of the motive force in the, i. 29 * Steel, effect of magnetism on, i. 77
importance of the spectrum analysis in the manufacture of, by Bessemer's process, i. 137, 138 Stegobolus Berkelianus, structure and organs of development of, ii. 299 Stelleridae, structure and mode of reproduction of, ii. 169-172, 174 Stems of plants, structure of, i. 384, 405 Stenochlsena, stem of, i. 339
Stephanosphsera pluvialis, structure and development of, i. 187-189 Stickleback, entozoon of the, ii. 145 Sticta, structure of the genus, i. 304 Sticta pulmonacea, structure and habitat of, i. 304 Stilbacei, structure and habitat of, i. 283 Stomach, human, fungus in the, i. 275 Stomapoda, characters of the, ii. 198 Stomata of plants, structure of the, i, 405, 406 Stone-lilies, structure of, ii. 174, 175 Strawberry, fructification of the, i. 381 Strorabus gigas, or queen conch, shell of, ii. 234 Strontium, i. 3
one of an isomeric triad with calcium and barium, i. 105
red-coloured light obtained by the combustion of, i. 133
spectrum analysis of, i. 133
spectrum analysis of the rarefied vapour of, i. 142 effect of high temperature, i. 142, 143 Strychnos nux vomica, fruit of, food for birds, i. 426 Substitution, direct or indirect, the basis of the modern doctrine of equi- valents, i. 104 Succinic acid, chemical combination forming, i. 97 Sugar, production of, in plants, i. 421 Sugar-cane, size and structure of, i. 386 Sulphur, i. 16
extensive range of affinities of, i. 16
INDEX. 3 1 3
Sulphur: dimorphism and allotropisra of, i. 16
combination of chlorine with sulphur, i. 20
atomic weight of, compared with that of hydrogen, i. 100, 105
its analogous properties with selenium and tellurium, i. 105
spectrum analysis of, in different tejaperatures, i. 144 Sulphuretted hydrogen gas, i. 16
Sulphurous acid, amount of absorption of radiant heat by, i, 41 Sun, probable cause of the light and heat of the, i. 28
probability of the periodic connection of the solar spots with mag- netic phenomena, i. 30, 31
amount of force exerted by the sun's light within the limits of the terrestrial atmosphere, i. 34
chemical action of the light of the sun, i. 56
effect of the opalescence of the atmosphere on the chemical power of the sun's light, i. 57 Sun, spectrum of the, i. 58
thirteen terrestrial substances in the sun's atmosphere, i. 59 , metals shown by M. Kirchhoff to exist in the sun, i. 151-153
and those proved not to exist in it, i. 154
the structure of the sun'in some respects still a mystery, i. 164
the luminous gaseous atmosphere of the, i. 164
mottled appearance of the photosphere of the sun, i. 164, 165
the fac^las, i. 165
the red flames or protuberances round the edge during a total eclipse, i. 165
the solar spots, i. 168
their periodicity, i. 166
appear to be influenced by the planet Venus, i. 166 Sun- rise and sun-set, causes of the bright tints at, i. 58 Surirella, mode of development of, i. 202 Synapta, structure of the genus, ii. 185 Synapta digitata, structure and habitat of the, ii, 185 Syncladei, structure of the branches of, i. 328 Syncoryna Sarsii, structure and development of zooids of, ii. 90 Synthesis, in the animal and vegetable creation, i. 96
Taenia, or tape-worm, structure and mode of reproduction of, ii. 145
transformation of the young of, ii. 146. Tsenioidse, characters of, ii. 144
314 INDEX.
Talitrus, or sand-hopper, structure of, ii. 201, 202
Tar, coal. See Coal tar
Tardigrada, characters of the, ii. 161
Tartaric acid, chemical combination forming, i. 97
Tea, active principle of, i. 428
Tellurium, atomic weight of, i. 105
its properties analogous to those of sulphur and selenium, i. 105 Terebella conchilega, structure of, ii. 153-155 Textularia, structure and habitat of the genus, ii. 41
fossils of, ii. 42 Textularia Mayeriana, form of, ii. 28 Thalassicolla morum, structure of, ii. 21 Thalassicollse, structure of, ii. 21
Thalassyophyllum Clathrus, habitat and structure of, i. 250 Thallium, i. 3, 4.
effect of the spectrum from an electric spark between points of, i, 64
atomic weight of, compared with that of hydrogen, i. 100
Mr, W. Crookes's discovery of the metal so called, i. 136
spectrum analysis of, i. 137
properties of, i. 137
where found, i. 137
changes in the spectrum of, by high temperature, i. 144 Thallus or frond, of lichens, i. 301 Thaumantia pilosella, form and structure of, ii. 92
otolites of, ii. 93
mode of reproduction of, ii. 94 Thorinum, i. 4
Thtmder-dirt of the New Zealanders, i. 268 Thyme, absorption of radiant heat by the perfume of, i. 44 Timmia, leaves of, i. 330 Tobacco, spectrum analysis of, i. 136
Tobacco, narcotic effect of, and as a relief from hunger, i, 428 Toluidine, property of, in producing the aniline colours, i. 122 Toluol, constituents of, i. 121 Topaz, oriental, i. 4 Torula cerevisise, structure, development, and cell-multiplication of,
i. 287 Transparency in liquids and solids synonymous with discord, i. 36
causes of transparency, i. 37 Transpiration of gases, i. 110, 114 Tree ferns, structure of, i. 341 Trees, constitution of the stems of, i. 1 74
INDEX. 3 1 5
Tremellini, structure, habitat, and fructification of, i. 266
Trepang, used as food, ii. 181
Triceratium farus, structure and habitat of, i. 199
Triceratium genus, structure and habitat of, i. 199
Trichodesmiurn erythrseum, structure, habitat, and reproduction of,
i. 215, 216 Trichogastres, characters of the group, i. 267
Trichomanes radicans, or bristle fern, structure and habitat of, i. 361 Trichomaninese, characters of the group, i. 345
characters and habitat of, i. 360, 361 Trilobites, structure of, ii. 203 Tripe de Eoche, structure of, i. 308 Triphragmium dubens, spores of, i. 276 Tripoli stone on the Ehine, of what it consists, i. 206 Trochus granulatus, structure of, ii. 237, 238 Trochus zizyphinus, palate of, ii. 237 Truffle, structure and habitat of the, i. 292, 293
modes of tracing them, i. 293
the red, of Bath, i. 268; Trypethelium Sprengelii, pustules and sporidia of, i. 299 Tuberacei, characters and habitat of the order, i. 292 Tubicola, structure of, ii. 153
found m all seas, ii. 161 Tubipora, characters of the family of, ii. 129 Tubipora musica, structure and mode of reproduction of, ii. 130 Tubipora purpurea, habitat of, ii. 130 Tubularia, form and structure of the family, ii. 91
mode of propagation of, ii. 91 Tulip, structure and mode of reproduction of, i. 388 Tunicata, or Ascidians, characters of, ii. 222
groups of, ii. 222, et seq. Turbellarise, structure of the, ii. 148 Turkey red, from what obtained, i. 124 Turpentine, oil of, takes fire in chlorine gas, i. 19 Turritopsis nutricula, larvae of the Canina octonaria parasites of, ii. 100
u
Ulva, structure and reproduction of, i. 171, 225
Ulva bullosa, reproduction of, i. 227
Ulva lactuca, structure and mode of reproduction of, i. 226
3i6 INDEX.
Ulva latissima, structiu'e and mode of reproduction of, i. 225-227 Ulva Linza, structure and mode of reproduction of, i. 226 Umbilicaria, structure and habitat of, i. 308 Upas-tree of Java, causes of the virulence of, i. 426
fruit of, innocuous, i. 426 Uranium, i, 4, 5
nitrate of, phosphorescence of, i. 67 Uranite, yellow, fluorescent property of, i. 66 Uredines, structure and habitat of the, i. 277 Uredo, structure and mode of reproduction of, i. 277 Uredo Candida, or Cystopus candidus, structure, habitat, and mode of
reproduction of, i. 278 Uredo linearis, the rust on the leaves and chaff scales of wheat, i. 281 Uromyces appendiculatus, or fungus of the common bean, i. 280 Usnea, structure of, i. 302 Usnea melaxantha, splendour of, i. 304 Usnea Taylori, splendour of, i. 304 Usnese, brilliancy and wide diffusion of the, i. 304 Usnic acid, produced by lichens, i. 303 Uva di mare, fruit of, i. 257
Vacuum tubes, i. 78, note
electric discharges in, i. 78, 79 Valvulina, structure of, ii. 37 Vanilla, reproduction of, i, 402 Vapours, absorption of radiant heat by gases and vapours, i. 38
radiation of, equal to absorption, i. 46 Variola dealbata, litmus or orchil obtained from, i. 124 Vaucheria, character of the genus, i. 218, 224
structure, habitat, and modes of reproduction of, i. 218 Vaucheria marina, structure and habitat of, i. 224 Vaucheria sessiles, mode of reproduction of, i. 219 Vaucheria velutina, habitat of, i. 224 Vegetable world, microscopic structure of the, i. 167 Vegetation, i, 167
effects of light and heat on, i. 168, 169
the primordial cell, the universal framework or skeleton of the vegetable world, i. 170, 172
formation of cellular tissue, i. 171, 173
INDEX. 317
Vegetation: fibro-vascular bundles constituting the wood of trees, i. 173
the vascular ducts, i. 73
the pitted tissue, i. 174
the woody fibre, i. 174 sclerogen, i. 175 the laticiferous vessels, or vasa propria, i. 176, 177 seeds and spores, i, 177
cycles of existence in the vegetable world, i. 178, 186 variation of marine vegetation, horizontally and vertically with the
depth, i. 258 instance of mechanical power exerted by vegetable matter, i. 269 seeds brought to Europe by the great Atlantic currents, i. 355 gradual changes of structure from the lowest to the highest crypto- gamic forms, i. 375
reproduction and fructification, i. 376, 377 general structure of flowering plants, i. 378
calyx and corolla, i. 378
stamens and pollen, i. 379
pistil, ovary, and style, i. 380
fructification, i. 381 monocotyledonous, or endogenous plants, their structure, growth, and reproduction, i, 383
the earliest dawn of plant life, as shown in the colourless pro- toplasm of the grasses, i. 387
bulbous plants, structure and mode of reproduction of, i. 388
orchids, their structure and fructification, i. 389 dicotyledonous, or exogenous plants, i. 404-428
seeds, i. 404
stems, i. 405
stomata, i. 405, 406
bark, i. 406, 407
cambium, i. 407
wood, i. 408
roots, i. 409
leaves, i. 410
buds, spines, and hairs, i. 411
protoplasm, i. 412
chemical elements of vegetable matter, i. 413
sap and sap motion, i. 415-417
inhalation and exhalation of oxygen, i. 416, 417
latex, i. 417
milk vessels, i. 418
3i8 INDEX,
Vegetation : chemical functions, i. 419 cellulose, i. 419, 420 starch, i. 420
diastase and dextrine, i. 420, 421 sclerogen, or colouring matter of wood, i, 421 sugar, i. 421
oils, resins, and wax, i. 422, 423 albumen, fibrin, and casein, i. 423 raphides, i. 424 milk sap, i. 425
poisons, i. 425, 426 food and other purposes, i. 426 alkaloids, chemical structure of, i. 427 colouring matter of flowers, chemical nature of, i. 428, 429 water secreted by plants night and morning, i. 429 electricity developed by plants and flowers, i. 430 irritability of the tissues of plants, i. 430
light the most universal and important exciting cause in the vegetable world, i. 431 Velella spirans, structure and modes of locomotion and reproduction of, ii. 114-116 food of, ii. 116 habitat of, ii. 117 Velellidse, characters of the order, ii. Ill, 114 Venus, the planet, spectrum of, i. 168, 162
Veratrum album, or white hellebore, poisonous alkaloid of, i. 427 Verrucariei, structure of, i. 310 Verrucaria muralis, structure and habitat of, i. 310 Verrucaria variolosa, structure and development of, 299, 300 Vibrissea, motions of the sporidia in, i. 292 Vibrios found in dust from Egypt, ii. 65
agents in the decomposition of organic matter, ii. 66, 67 difference between vibrios and mycoderms, ii. 66 extreme tenacity of life of the vibrios, ii. 67 Vine, fungus constituting the mildew of the, i. 295, 297 Vinegar plant, fungus producing the, i. 288 Virgularia juncea, ii. 129
Virgularia mirabilis, mode of reproduction of, ii. 129 Virgularise, structure and mode of reproduction of the, ii. 129 Vis viva, or impetus, i. 26, 27 heat generated by, i. 27 combustion, a case of, i. 30
INDEX. 319
Vittarieje, characters of the group, i. 356
Volatility of a compound, law of, i. 22
Voltaic battery, i. 31
Voltaic electricity. See Electricity
Volvocinese, structure and reproduction of, i. 187, 189
Volvox globator, structure and development of, i. 189
Vorticella nebulifera, diversity of their reproductive powers, ii, 75, 76
Vorticellse, structure of the, ii. 76
food of, and mode of taking it, ii. 76, 77
mode of reproduction of, ii. 77 Vulpinic acid, whence obtained, i. 303
w
"Walking fern, structui'e and mode of reproduction of, i. 352. Walnut, cause of blistered leaves of the, i. 291 Wasp, a West Indian, killed by fungi, i. 293, 294 Water almost impervious to heat, i. 36
proportions of oxygen and hydrogen in, i. 94
combination and decomposition of, i. 94
force of the chemical combination requisite to form a gallon of, from the combustion of the two gases, i. 97, 98
force required to freeze water, i. 98
amount of voltaic electricity required to separate a given quantity of water into hydrogen and oxygen, i. 101
the most common radicle in the inorganic and organic world, i. 107
the water of crystallization, and the effect of heat upon it, i. 108
production of aqueous solutions of organic and inorganic matter, i. 1 1 1
water secreted night and morning by plants, i. 429 Water-flea, arborescent, structure of the, ii. 208 Waterproofing, Lidia rubber prepared for, i. 120 Wax, vegetable, formation of, i. 422, 423
functions of, i. 423 Wheat, probable causes of the rust and smut of, i. 281
Cordiceps on the ergot of, i. 293 Whelks, tongues of, ii. 239, 240 Wood-louse, or slater, structure of, ii. 202 Wood of trees, fibro-vascular bundles constituting the wood of, i. 1 73, 1 74
structure of, i. 408 Woodsia, structure of, i. 349 Woodsia ilvensis, structure and fructification of, i. 350
320 INDEX.
Woodsiese, or Peranemese, characters of the group, i. 350
"Worms, or annulosa, characters of, ii. 144
Wormskioldia sanguinea, structure and habitat of, i. 239, 240
"Wormwood, absorption of radiant heat by the perfume of, i. 44
Wrangelia pencillata, spores of, i. 237
"Wrangeliacese, structure and mode of reproduction of, i. 237
X
Xenodochus parodoxus, spores of, i. 276
Y
Yeast plant, i. 286, 288
yeast of beer, i. 287, 288
German yeast, i. 288 Yellow dye, obtained from aniline, i. 124 Yttrium, i. 4
z
Zinc, i. 4.
spectrum of volatilized zine, i. 64
atomic weight of, compared with that of hydrogen, i. 100
peroxide of, combination forming, i. 104
seleniate of, different forms assumed by, according to the tempera- ture of the -water united with, i. 107, 108 Zirconium, i. 4 Zonaria, structure of, i. 247 Zooids of Hydrozoa, ii. 88-90 Zoophytes, characters of, ii. 81
hydrozoa, ii. 81, 86
actinozoa, ii. 130
anthozoa, ii. 119 alcyon, ii. 119 Zoospores of Confervacese, i. 208 Zostera marina, or sea wrack, crimson fringe of the, i. 231
characters of the flowers of, i. 387 Zygnema quininum, mode of reproduction of, i. 217 Zygodesmus fuscus, spores of, i. 286
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