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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 337

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low cup, notched at its margin, and sitting inthe concavity of the one next below it. This structureis developed first in those at the free extremity of thepolype, and progressively downward; and the terminalcups are nearly free, rocking in their successors withevery wave, while the lowest segments… … TURBIS AND ITS YOUNG. downwards, and, contracting its margin with the well-known pulmonic spasm, shoots away with the movementas well as the form of a veritable Medusa. The littleprogeny has at length, after passing through so manychanges, returned to the image of its parent. Such are, in brief,…

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