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nor alimentary canal. Food is taken in through
any part of the body and waste material is
given off through any part of the body.

Amoeba have no moving appendages, but slowly
roll around till they meet a food particle, they then
thrust out pseudopodia and the food particle
is held secure. This food particle is worked
through the protoplasmic interior of the
animal, becoming smaller and smaller
till all the nutrient part of it is absorbed, then
it is worked out through the cell wall. (Pseudopod-false feet)

Sponges

The sponges we bye(?) are leathery skelatons,
of colonies of sponges; not all sponges however
have form these leathery colonies, some form a more
or less shiny mass. The little sponges swim
around at first and then settle down to form
a new colony; they are about a quarter of an inch
in diameter and from one half to three quarters
of an inch long, and appear to be quite porus

In the leathery sponges water is carried
into the colony by the incurrent canal, and
carried out by the excurrent canal; it is
by this means that the sponges in the interior
of the colony are fed.