THIS interesting organism was first discovered by me in a pond near Snareshook, Essex, in the spring of the year 1882.I was searching the numerous ponds in that neighbourhood for Vo'oliiox globator, and happened to dip a bottle amongst some rushes in a quiet corner, which appeared to be a likely place to find what I was looking for.On holding the bottle up to tlie light I obl;erved in it a number of minute flocculent bodies, the nature of which I could not determine with a pocket-lens, and therefore carried them home for further examination.With tlie Microscope I found them to consist of colonies of monads possessing collars and flagella, and connected together in vast numbers and in rather close proximity to one another on the periphery of some exceedingly transparent hytlline substance.Being out of health, and, moreover, having only a very slight acquaintance with the group of Choano-flagellata, derived from Mr.
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Frederick Oxley (1884) studied this question.