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The microscope and its revelations (1856)

Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885 · London : John Churchill · leaf 574

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swhich lie in coilswithin the chambersthat surround the sto-mach, in contact withthe sexual organswhich are attached tothe lamellse dividingthe chambers. It wasformerly supposed thatthe last-named organswere always ovaria,and that the long andslender filaments con-tain sperm-cells andare… … 552 ZOOPHYTES. the peculiar filiferous capsules which lie side by side in thesefilaments are reaUy identical in structure with those which arefound in the skia, the idea of their sexual nature has been aban-doned; and a more careful examination of the organs attached tothe walls of the chambers has…

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