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 305
ather islifted a little way from the stone, leaving a vacuum there; u 2 292 EVENINGS AT THE MICROSCOPE. since the contact of the edges with the stone is so perfectthat no air can find entrance between them. Now the pressure of the atmosphere uponthe leather is so great that a con-siderable weight,… … SUCKER-PLATE OF VRCHIX. ^^ ^^ ^ j^ ^^ . ^ tffofefi end with the plate in it his leather ; his muscular poweracts like the other urchins tread, to press the bottom ofthe sucker against the surface of the rock. Then he pullsthe string; in other words, he drags inwards the centre ofthe muscular bottom…
Zoology · Microscopy
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