Following is a transcript of the video. These rotating orbs are alive. Each one is a colony of hundreds of cells which work together to form the lifeform volvox. Volvox is a resident of Brooklyn. But ...

On a cold afternoon in January, Sally Warring is slowly circling the rim of the Sylvan Water pond in Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, gazing into its inky depths. Grabbing a mason jar out her bag, she ...

THIS little volume is already so well and favourably known to microscopists that any formal notice or commendation is scarcely necessary. Professing only to be a first book on “Pond-Life,” it does not ...