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The microscope and its revelations (1881)

Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885 · Philadelphia : Blakiston · leaf 589

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ight be produced ina month by the repeated subdivisions of a single Paramecium:When this fission occurs in Vorticella (Fig. 305), it extends downthe stalk, which thus becomes double for a greater or less part ofits length; and thus a whole bunch of these Animalcules mayspring (by a repetition of… … Fissiparous multiplication of Chilodon cuculhilus:—A, u, c,successive stages of longitudinal fission (?) ; D, e, f, succes-sive stages of transverse fission. of continuous subdivision.—Another curious result of this modeof multiplication presents itself in the family Oplirydina;masses of…

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