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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 81

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ule/^ and although it is easy enoughto count them in some positions_, the observer may haveto exercise a good deal of patience before he is certainwhether they are five or six. For a long evening onlyfive could be discerned in the specimen now described,but the next night six were apparent without… … Cbsetonotus larus (swimming). After the Floscules had been sufficiently admired andput aside, for observations to be repeated on futureoccasions, a Rotifer attracted attention by his merry-andrew pranks, throwing himself in all directions bymeans of two long and extremely mobile toes attachedto his…

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