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 192
maturity to swim about and gettheir independent living. This receptacle, in which you may see five or six eggs,is freely open to the surrounding water, which entersthe slit edge of the shell behind the tail. Perhaps youwonder why the eggs are not washed out by the respira-tory currents; they are,… … DAPHNIA. mother has but to depress her body a little more thanordinary, when the door is opened, and the young easilyslip from the receptacle into the open water. These tiny odd-looking sprawling things that you seemoving about by quick jerks in the same drop of water,are the young recently…
Zoology · Microscopy
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