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 54
, it is afloat. Throw thisentire cuttle-shell into water ; it floats on the surface as-buoyantly as if it were actually carved out of cork. I cut with a keen knife a little cube out of the shell,,and, fixing it on the end of the revolving stage-needle,apply a low power, say seventy diameters, using… … light. We are looking now at the perpendicular section ;is it not a beautiful object1? you might fancy yourselflooking at one of the noble icebergs that majesticallynavigate the polar seas, when it is rendered porous andlaminated by the rains of spring. You see a number ofthin horizontal tiersor…
Zoology · Microscopy
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