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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 194

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curved, andso transparent that they seem formed of spun glass. CRABS AND SHRIMPS. 181 Another peculiarity is, that there seems to be but onepair of legs, which terminate each in a hooked spine.You now and then see these awkwardly thrust out frombeneath the hinder part of the shell, but locomotion… … v\\ sJy CTPRIS. Early in the present century, an Irish naturalist, Dr. J.Vaughan Thompson, announced a discovery, which, up-setting conclusions previously received by all, caused nolittle dissent and opposition, and gave rise to a lengthenedand wide-spread controversy. A very minute…

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