Globigerina

glo-bij-e-ri'na, a minute sea animal. It is something like an amoeba in structure, yet it is protected by a shell. It lives in myriads at the surface of the sea. At death the shell, which is as small as the finest dust--so small that it cannot be seen without a microscope--settles slowly to the bottom of the sea, where it forms deep beds of ooze or fine mud. The soundings made by the Challenger expedition brought up specimens of ooze from great depths. The chalk cliffs of England and France consist largely of these shells. Enormous thicknesses of rocks appear to be composed of similar oozes hardened by heat and pressure. Geologists assert that if the world lasts long enough, the deposits of this sediment, now collecting so slowly on the floors of the oceans, may one day be hardened rock crumpled up into mountain folds of new continents.

Gloria or Gloria Silk, a twill-woven silk and wool fabric. It is used principally for covering umbrellas. Under the names of lansdowne, fayetta, and laburnum, the same fabric is used for women's gowns, waists, and suits. The best gloria has a warp of silk which has been freed entirely from the natural gum which covers the product of the silkworm. Sometimes the silk is used without being submitted to the processes which remove this gum. Such fabrics have less luster, do not retain dyes permanently, and do not wear as well as those made from the properly prepared silk. The weft of gloria is of fine worsted yarn. In weaving, the warp is brought to the surface as much as possible to give the sheen of silk to the finished fabric.