Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

1896.] NATURAl. Jhi'TORY. 187
Changing its form every instant, now wormlike, now spheri.
cal and now, as if uncertain which way to muve, putting out
pReudopodia on different shies, then flowing out iu one of those
protuberances, it moved across the field.
At length in its erratic wandea·ings it appt·oached the two
Foraminifera and touched the arnaller one. By what sense it
perceived the fact I cannot tell, bnt the Amc:eba knew its food
at onoe, and asaailed its hapless victim without delay. Ca.sting
one procesa around one end of the 11hell aucl a ~~aoond arount· forgt>tll Iter solieitutle fur its 11afety, and at the
eadie11t intimation of danget· aeizes it in her arms and seeks a
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