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 177
branch gleams under re-flected light with metallic hues, chiefly yellows and bronzygreens; which appear to depend on very minute andclosely-applied scales that overlap each other. The mainstem of the feather,—that is, the primary rod or axis,—is somewhat sparsely clothed with scales of another… … POKTION OF ANTENNA OF OAK EGGER MOTH. We may acquire some glimpse of a notion why thisremarkable development of antennae is bestowed upon themale sex of this moth, by an acquaintance with its habits.It has long been a practice with entomologists, when theyhave reared a female moth from the…
Zoology · Microscopy
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