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The microscope and its revelations (1856)

Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885 · London : John Churchill · leaf 587

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the skin ofChirodota violacea, aspecies inhabitingthe Mediterranean.These plates are ob-jects of singularbeauty and delicacy,being especially re-markable for thevery minute notching(scarcely to be dis-cerned in the figureswithout the aid ofa m agnifying - gl as s)which is traceable round the inner… … Wheel-like plates from skin of Chirodotaviolacea. LAHVAL rOEMS OP ECHINODEEMATA. 565 would be very valuable to determine bow far tbe very markedpeculiarities by wbicb tbey are respectively distiuguisbed, arecharacteristic of genera and species. Tbe plates may be ob-tained separately, by tbe usual…

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