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 200
. Sec, 1843. CRABS AND SHRIMPS. 18 a Megalopa ; and this latter became, after a short time,a Crab, in which were all the characters that belong tothe order to which the parent belongs ; but not those ofthe genus nor even of the family. Its form bore a closeresemblance to that of the Sargasso Crabs… … THIRD STAGE OF SHOBE-CRAB. (Grapsoid.) This Crab, however, was still very minute : and manysloughings were before it. In the course of these it wasdestined gradually to attain, not only the dimensions ofits parents, but also their form. This, however, would bematter of development rather than…
Zoology · Microscopy
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