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 199
up-plied with muscular fibres, to cause the constrictionsby which this work is chiefly performed, and bykeeping a colony for a month or two, I had manyopportunities of seeing my Polyzoa at their meals.When alarmed the tentacles were quickly retracted,but although these creatures are said to dislike… … GO Plumatella repeiis. (Siagle Polypiis enlarged.) PROCESS OF GROWTH. 163 tures, and never failed to display their charms toadmiring visitors, who rewarded them by unmeasuredpraise. Twice I had an opportunity of observingan action 1 cannot explain, except by supposingeither that the tentacles of…
Microscopy · Freshwater animals
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