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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 36

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se lovely fishes, depends not onthe scales themselves, but on a soft layer of pigment spreadover their inner surface, and seen through theirtranslucentsubstance. On carefully detaching a scale, we see on theunder side, opposite to that portion only which was ex-posed (all the concealed parts being…

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