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 399
f cohesion among their spicula. To understand the structure of a sponge we will shavea thin sectional slice from this Halichondria suberea.This when alive is of an orange colour; and is alwaysfound closely investing turbinate, or top-shaped, shellswhich are inhabited by Hermit-crabs. We will… … SECTION OF SPONGE. omitting for the present, the skeleton. Of the same sub-stance is the whole slice composed, but looser and moreopen as it recedes from the surface. It is separated by PROTOZOA AND SPONGES. 387 blank spaces which are larger towards the centre, smallerand more numerous as they…
Zoology · Microscopy
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