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 27
pointed spines,which scarcely project from the line of theaxis. But there is scarcely any hair more curiousthan that of a troublesome grub in museumsand cabinets, the larva of Dermestes lardarius,which lives upon fur-skins, and any driedanimal substances. It has a cylindrical shaft,which is covered… … TIP OF HAIR OFDEBMESTES. HAIRS, FEATHERS, AND SCALES. 15 is furnished with six or seven large filaments or threads,which appear to have a knob-like hinge in the middle, bywhich they are bent up on themselves. The feathers of Birds are essentially hairs. Thatshrivelled membrane which we pull out of…
Zoology · Microscopy
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