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 370
tocontact, and thus constitute a tube. Like all other internalorgans in these animals, its surface is richly ciliated,and the ciliary currents not only hurl along whateverfloating atoms chance to approach the surface, but causethe detached fragments themselves to wheel round andround, and to swim… … POEIIOX OF ACONTIUH (flattened). its basis is composed, is endowed with a very evidentcontractility; the filament can contract or elongate; canextend itself in a straight line, or throw its length intospiral curves and contorted coils; can bring its marginstogether, or separate them in various…
Zoology · Microscopy
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