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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 46

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ns of life; and, because the whole tissues are astransparent as crystal, they allow us to watch theprocesses with perfect ease. Take a peep at it. It is a gelatinous sac, of a form intermediate betweenglobular and cubi-cal, flattened ontwo opposite sides,with a sort of wartat the summit andanother… … PEROPHOKA. orifice. The di-gestive organs lie on that flattened side which is farthestfrom your eye, and are therefore dimly seen. The globose body is enclosed in a coating of loose shape-less jelly, that passes off from one of the lower corners.and forms a short foot-stalk, which unites with…

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