Fred. F. Grensted

“ As in thought we gaze upon the scene with eyes enlightened by modern scientific research, we see these shells slowly falling through the water like a snowstorm, unceasingly day by day and your by year, as their tenants, once alive and swimming about in the water above, die off in countless myriads. Thus, generation after generation died and sank to the ocean bottom, and in turn was buried beneath the remains of its offspring. Thus, slowly but surely, fragment by fragment, were the chalk cliffs and downs of Albion deposited beneath the deep waters of a mighty sea. ”

“ If the natural powder is not within reach, any soft piece of chalk reduced to powder by being scraped with a knife will do almost equally well. Place some of the powder in an ordinary medicine bottle, fill up with clean water, and shake vigorously for some time. ”

“ This mud would be almost entirely composed of very minute but lovely shells, which are now known by the generic name Foraminifera. They are so small as to require the aid of a good microscope to reveal their lovely forms. ”