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The microscope and its revelations (1891)

Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885, Dallinger, W. H. (William Henry), 1842-1909 · Philadelphia, Blakiston · leaf 710

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s. If the prey is lar^e andvigorous enough to struggle to escape from its entanglement, It mayusually be observed that the neighbouring pseudopodia bend over andapply themselves to it, so as to assist in holding it captive, and that itis slowly drawn by their joint retraction towards the body of… … Fig. 515.— Actinophrys sol: A, figure showing the wide vacuolated corticallayer or ectosarc (22) and the fine granulated endosarc (at) ; n, centralnucleus, ax, axial filaments of pseudopodia; cv, contractile vacuole ; x food-mass inclosed in a large fcod-vacuole. B, a colony of four individuals,…

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