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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 896

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tted with orange and brown, andlinked by a silvery winding thread. The isolation of the body ofeach zooid from that of its fellows, and the extreme transparence ofits tunics, not only enable the movements of fluid within the body tobe distinctly discerned, but also allow the action of the cilia… … Fig. 633.—Botryllus violaceus: A, cluster on the surface of a Fucus;B, portion of the same enlarged. into the space between the sac and the mantle, and is thus dis-charged immediately by the atrial funnel. Whatever little particles,animate or inanimate, the current of water brings flow into thesac…

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