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The microscope and its revelations (1856)

Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885 · London : John Churchill · leaf 586

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isted eye, of that skeleton which constitutes so distinctivea feature of the class generally. But a microscopic examina-tion of their integument at once brings to view the existenceof great numbers of minute isolated plates, every one of thempresenting the characteristic reticulated structure,… … Calcareous plates in skin of Solothuria, view of the kind marked a, more higlily magnified, showingthe very peculiar manner wherein one part is superposed onthe other, which is not at all brought into view when it ismerely seen-through in the ordinaij manner.—In the Synajjta,one of the long-bodied…

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