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Feeling better. I heart my flist.

I found out we have an old version of a PhotoDeluxe!! I've been admiring icons and made one to ask for them.......



This is Lychnocanoma, one of the thousands of protozoan genera with complex and beautiful shells. This one cell - about a fifth of a millimeter - does everything animals require multiple cells to do. (More at http://www.radiolaria.org).

Wandering around to see what else I could tell you about them got me to scans of the classic naturalist texts. These are full of illustrations I have always coveted, e.g.,

http://www.zum.de/stueber/haeckel/radiolarien/index.html

......and after years of making very unsatisfactory zeroxes of them I can't believe I can now get them on line in excellent quality.

**huggles internet**