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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 341

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ein the centre of a horny diaphragm, or sort of false bottom,which passes across the lower part of each cell. It thendilates into a soft, contractile animal, whose body—butlook for yourself; for here, full in the field of the micro-scope, is one expanding in the highest vigour and beauty.It is a… … LAOilEDEA. ZOOPHYTES. 329 varying in different individuals—arranged in one or twoclose-set circles, like a crown. These organs, which, asyou see, fall into elegant double curves, like the branchesof a chandelier, are roughened with knobbed rings, some-thing like the horns of a goat; this structure…

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