Radiolarians

No matter what the Orpolese, the Unipuskers, or -- later -- the Radiolarians say, they are not concerned with Frek's or humanity's welfare.

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Radiolarians, the common green sea anemone (_Anthea cereus_, var. _Smaragdina_), the remarkable Gephyrean, _Bonellia viridis_, a Polychæte worm, _Chætoperus_, and even a Crustacean, _Idotea viridis_.

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So, too, I found that Radiolarians were killed by a day's exposure to sunshine, even in cool water, and it is to the need for escaping this too rapid oxidation that I ascribe their remarkable habit of leaving the surface and sinking into deep water early in the day.

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In his famous monograph of the Radiolarians, Haeckel suggests that they are probably secreting cells or digestive glands in the simplest form, and compares them to the liver-cells of Amphioxus, and the "liver-cells" described by Vogt in _Velella_ and _Porpita_.

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This opinion was founded on their occasional occurrence outside the body of the anemone, on their irregular distribution in various species, and on their resemblance to the yellow cells of Radiolarians.

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-- Abstract of a long and valuable paper "On the Nature and Functions of the Yellow Cells of Radiolarians and Coelenterates," read to the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

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Radiolarians, he holds strongly that those of anemones and jelly-fishes are unicellular glands.

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_Anthea cereus_, which contains most algæ, probably far outnumbers all the other species of sea-anemones put together, and the Radiolarians which contain yellow cells are far more abundant than those which are destitute of them.

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In 1871 a very remarkable contribution to our knowledge of the Radiolarians was published by Cienkowski, who strongly expressed the opinion that these yellow cells were parasitic algæ, pointing out that our only evidence of their Radiolarian nature was furnished by their constant occurrence in most members of the group.

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Radiolarians which possess only a single nucleus, and secondly, that they are absent in a good many species altogether.

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