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 83
D-LIFE. to the ilhiminated side of a bottle, and may thuseasily effect their capture by the dipping-tube. This year the March sunshine was not lost, foron the 3rd. of that month I obtained a bottle fullof conferva from a pond about a mile from myhouse, and lying at the foot of the Highgate… … 150Pterodina patina. animated soup-plate, from near the middle of whichdepended a tail, which swayed from side to side, asthe creature swam along. The head exhibited twolittle red eyes; two tufts of cilia rowed the livingdisk through the water, and the gizzard worked witha rapid snapping motion,…
Microscopy · Freshwater animals
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