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the celebrated Dane, Otho Frederick Müller, discovered, in 1786, the Vibrio paxillifer, and described the Conferva pectinalis, it was for the cultivators of natural history a new series of beings, whose form and life appeared so problematic, that some time elapsed before they knew to what organic kingdom they belonged. Müller had already classed the Vibrio paxillifer among animals, and the Conferva pectinalis among plants. But this sagacious observer ranged them very soon amongst the infusory animalcules. Mr. Bory de St. Vincent (Dict. class.