hydatina

Updated: May 16, 2025

A single wheel-animalcule, Hydatina senta, which was watched for more than eighteen days, and which lives still longer, is capable of a fourfold increase in twenty-four or thirty hours; a rate of propagation which would afford in ten days a million of beings.

Francis Bowen - A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation'