Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885 · London : John Churchill · leaf 727
what resembling that of starch-grains; and the lightsand shadows of this cross are replaced by contrasted colours,when the selenite-plate is interposed. The substance com-moid.y but erroneously termed Whalehone, which is formedfrom the surface of the membrane that lines the mouth of thewhale, and… … component fibres, like the medullary substance of hairs, con-tains cells that have been so little altered as to be easily recognized; and Fig. 313. the outer or cor- tical portion also ^x c iW / may be sho\vn to have a like struc-ture, by macerat-ing it iu a solutionof potass, and thenin water. —…
Microscopy
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