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 333
hese are organs of hearing, very closely similar tothose which we see imbedded in the bosom of the Snailand other Mollusca. Here they are comparatively large,and unusually well furnished. Each is a semi-oval en-largement of the flesh of the margin, in close connexionwith the walls of the marginal… … OTOLITHES OF THAUMATTTIAS. substance. They are arranged in a double line, forming acrescent, and those which are nearest the centre are largerthan those towards the extremities of the line. I believesome observers have seen oscillatory and rotatory move-ments among these spherules, as in the…
Zoology · Microscopy
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