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 420
uperect. Within the expanded part of the trumpet there is aturbid mass, with a perfectly defined outline, from several INFUSORIA. 407 points of which proceed radiating pencils or tufts oflong, straight, stiff, elastic filaments, like threads ofspun glass, varying greatly in length, and each… … ACIXETA. an independent animal, gave it a generic and specificname. He called it Acineta mystacina. For who wouldhave suspected that this stiff* and motionless object, withits tufts of flexible but inanimate threads, had any con- 408 EVENINGS AT THE MICROSCOPE. nexion with the sprightly vases which…
Zoology · Microscopy
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