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Show Life in Drop of Water Although a drop of water no Inrger than a buckshot may appear crystal-clear crystal-clear to the unaided eye, it will resemble re-semble a small aquarium if it Is greatly great-ly magnified Study of a drop from one of the ponds of the New York zoological zo-ological gardens showed that It was teeming with as many as one hundred forms of life. It was spread upon a glass slide and' examined with a blgh-power blgh-power microscope. One of the organisms organ-isms observed was a curious &nlmal with an oddly formed triangular body with two spinning "pinwheels" as mians of locomotion. It appeared to have the senpe of sight, for li . voided colliding with other objects and would reach out with Its body to grasp convenient con-venient surfaces to help it.? progresa Popular Mechanics Magazine. |