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Evenings at the microscope : or, Researches among the minuter organs and forms of animal life (1884)

Gosse, Philip Henry, 1810-1888 · London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge · leaf 112

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d protected byseveral points, and in thisspace, two black spots. With the dissecting-scissorsI have carefully cut out oneof these specks, and now I putit for illumination on the stageof the microscope. There is,first of all, a dark horny ringof an oval figure, a little waywithin which there is… … SPIRACLE OF LEATHEU-COAT. The space between the 100 EVENINGS AT THE MICROSCOPE, proceeding from one to the other, through the intersticesof which the air is filtered. The central plate seems tobe quite imperforate. The fat, thick-bodied grubs of those beetles calledchafers exhibit, in their…

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