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The microscope and its revelations (1881)

Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885 · Philadelphia : Blakiston · leaf 789

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n swimming in a glass jar, exceptby a very favourable light. This is the Tomopteris, so named fromthe division of the lateral portions of its body into a succession ofwing-like segments (Plate xxiii., b), each of them carrying atits extremity a pair of pinnules, by the movements of which itis… … TOMOlTEEIS ONISCIFOEMIS. [To face p. 703. ANNELIDS :—TOMOPTERIS. 703 which measures nearly an inch in length, has first a curious pairof frontal horns projecting laterally from the head, so as to givethe animal the appearance of a hammer-headed Shark; behindthese thera is a pair of very long…

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