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 407
t dilatation. The wholeis perfectly transparent, but the body is filled with nume-rous minute globular vessels, or temporary stomachs.The grace of its motion, as it glides along with a freeand moderately swift progression through the clearwater, or winds through the intricate passages of thegreen… … SWAN-NECK AND ITS DIVISIONS. is much longer than that of the other. Now and then,when gliding along, the neck is suddenly contracted, butnot wholly, as if something had alarmed or displeasedthe animal; the body also can be swollen or lengthenedat pleasure; it can move in either direction, but…
Zoology · Microscopy
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