Marvels of pond-life; or, A year's microscopic recreations among the polyps, infusoria, rotifers, water-bears and polyzoa (1871)
Slack, Henry J. (Henry James), 1818-1896 · London, Groombridge · leaf 132
s.The ciliary motion of the elegant wreath was activeand rapid, causing quite a stir among all the littleparticles, alive and dead; and when the right sort of * See Frontispiece. Marvels of Pond-Lije. \m food came near the corkscrew entrance to tlie mouth,down it went, and if conspicuous for… … A, B, C, D, Stentor polymorphus in dlfTerent degrees of ex-pansion. A large specimen is one twenty-fourth of an inchlong. quantity of water, to leave them in freedom, is thatthey frequently turn themselves, so that you can seerio-ht down into them; and the drawing given in thefrontispiece…
Microscopy · Freshwater animals -- England · Pond animals
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