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Bathybius
(n.)
A name given by Prof. Huxley to a gelatinous substance
found in mud dredged from the Atlantic and preserved in alcohol. He
supposed that it was free living protoplasm, covering a large part of
the ocean bed. It is now known that the substance is of chemical, not
of organic, origin.