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The microscope and its revelations (1856)

Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885 · London : John Churchill · leaf 564

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scopic research has been more un-expected, than the discovery of the close relationship subsist-ing between the Hydroid Zoophytes and the Medusoid Acale-phse (orjeUy-fish). We have seen that many of the small free-swimming Medusans, belonging to that simple tribe of whichThaumantias (Fig. 225) may… … Thaumaniias piloseUa, one of thenaked-eyed Medusse :—a a, oral ten-tacula; b, stomach; c, gastro-vascularcanals, having the ovaries, d d, oneither side, and termiaating in themarginal canal e e. with independent organs of nutrition and locomotion, wherebjthey become capable of maintaining their…

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