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In article <90300.133611JAHAYES@MIAMIU.BITNET> JAHAYES@MIAMIU.BITNET (Josh Hayes) writes:
>Bathybias: The primeval slime at the bottom of the ocean, 
...

>Proposed, then found, by Ernst Haeckel, if memory serves. 
> 
>Josh Hayes, Zoology Department, Miami University, Oxford OH 45056
>voice: 513-529-1679      fax: 513-529-6900
>jahayes@miamiu.bitnet, or jahayes@miamiu.acs.muohio.edu


Proposed by Haeckel under the name "Monera", dredged up in the
Atlantic and examined by Thomas Huxley, named "Bathybius Haeckelii".
For more on this good poop see Steve Gould's "Bathybius and Eozoon" in
_The Panda's Thumb_.  Other references to the episode are listed in
the bibliography.  

Ron Amundson
Philosophy
Univ. of Hawaii at Hilo
ronald@uhccux.bitnet