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 96
ence. A piece of one of the wing-cases of this beetle is gum-med to the slide now upon the stage. We look at it byreflected light with a magnifying power of 130 diameters.We see a black ground, on which is strewn a profusion ofwhat look like precious stones blazing in the most gorgeouslustre.… … SCALES OF DIAHOXD-BEETLE. able diversity of angle, they do all point with more or less precision in one direction, viz., that of the bands. G 9 84: EVENINGS AT THE MICROSCOPE. These gems are flat transparent scales, very regularlyoval in form, for one end is rather more pointed than theother; there…
Zoology · Microscopy
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