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Colouration in animals and plants (1886)

Tylor, Alfred, 1824-1884, Skertchly, Sydney B. J · London, Alabaster, Passmore · leaf 139

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us a usefuladdition to the great law of evolution. It supplements it; it gives areason why. Could he who first saw these points have read these final pages,it would have lightened the responsibility of the one upon whom thecompletion of the work has fallen. But he died when the work wasnearly… … GLOSSARY. AcETABULA. Lat. acetabulum^ a little vessel. Sucking discs as on the tentacles of Physalia.Aorta. Gr. The chief artery.Cephalothorax. Gr. kephale, head; thorax, chest. The anterior division of the body in Crustacea and Arachnida, composed of the amalgamated segments of the head and…

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