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The microscope and its revelations (1856)

Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885 · London : John Churchill · leaf 569

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on our coasts; in all of which the movements of the body areeffected by the like agency of cilia, arranged in meridionalbands.—Very different, however, is the structure of anotherlittle globular jelly-like d,-mm^V,i\i.Q Noctiluca miliaris (Fig. 229),to which the diffused luminosity of the sea, a… … Noctiluca miliaris. be swimming is contained in a glass jar exposed to the light;and a tail-like appendage, marked with transverse rings, whichis employed by the animal as an instrument of locomotion,both for swimming and for pushing, may also be observed witha hand-glass. Near the point of its…

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