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 157
we hadobtained one of the Tardigrada (slow-steppers), orWater-Bears, and a very comical amusing little fellow 130 Marvels of Pond-Life. he was. The figure was like that of a new-born puppy,or unlicked bear cub; each of the eight legs wereprovided with four serviceable claws, there was notail, and… … Water-Bear. not one of that painfully numerous class in England—the starving poor. A power of one hundred and five linear, obtainedwith a two-thirds object-glass, and the second eye-piece,enabled all his motions and general structure to be ex-hibited, and showed that he possessed a sort of…
Microscopy · Freshwater animals -- England · Pond animals
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