Beautiful nature -- The magic tube -- How pond life is captured and studied -- Living transparent jelly -- A wonderful casket -- The little red vampire -- The sun animalcule -- Living bells -- New bells out of old ones -- The one-eyed water flea -- Eight legged water bears -- The water dragon -- Plant-like animals -- The wheel animalcule -- The little brickmaker -- A rolling water plant -- The beautiful floscule -- Invisible foes -- How invisible foes are studied -- Monads (the smallest atoms of life) -- A battle between the smallest creatures on earth -- Living dust -- Nature's invisible policemen