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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 275

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or so helpless a being to penetrate. * Implements analogous to these are found in most of theanimals of the class Annelida, f to which the Earth-wormbelongs. But in this creature you see them in their sim-plest form : it is to the aquatic Worms that you must lookif you wish to see the amazing… … 262 EVENINGS AT THE MICROSCOPE. pairs of feet on each ring, consisting of wart-like pro-minences, which are perforate and protrusile, and throughthe middle of which work a number of bristles (setce),arranged in a radiating pencil, something like the hairs ofa paint-brush. In this transparent and…

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