Marvels of pond-life : or, A year's microscopic recreations among the polyps, infusoria, rotifers, water-bears, and polyzoa (1861)
Slack, Henry James, 1818-1896 · London : Groombridge · leaf 149
ractile vesicle, which would assimulate 1^20 MARVELS OF POND-LIFE. them to the animal series, but their general beha-viour is vegetable; and the Micrographic Dictionaryis in favour of referring them to the Algce—tlvdtgreat family of simple plants, of which the sea-weedsare the most important… … green globes had to suffer from, as tAvo sorts ofrotifer were frequently met with. One of these wasa very handsome and singular creature, which insome positions had the general contour of a cocka-too, only that the legs were wanting, and the headexhibited a monkey face. The wheels were re-presented…
Microscopy · Freshwater animals
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