Vignettes from invisible life. Repr., with additions, from 'The St. James's gazette'. |
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... parental structure . The young are developed from eggs , which are laid and hatched within the tower - like house . Owing to the peculiar structure of its inhabitant , great care is required in this process . The egg is shot forth near ...
... parental structure . The young are developed from eggs , which are laid and hatched within the tower - like house . Owing to the peculiar structure of its inhabitant , great care is required in this process . The egg is shot forth near ...
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... parental abode , to which they never return . A young Melicertan is a very different creature from its parent , having two eyes , and swimming rapidly from place to place . This is the period of youth ; free and easy , it travels over ...
... parental abode , to which they never return . A young Melicertan is a very different creature from its parent , having two eyes , and swimming rapidly from place to place . This is the period of youth ; free and easy , it travels over ...
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... parent flower - like crown , having four lobes , is gradually expanded . This is fringed with a double row of cilia , which produces a motion of exquisite beauty . It is of a rotary character ; and so , by producing a corresponding ...
... parent flower - like crown , having four lobes , is gradually expanded . This is fringed with a double row of cilia , which produces a motion of exquisite beauty . It is of a rotary character ; and so , by producing a corresponding ...
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... dwelling thus formed is about one- fiftieth of an inch in length , at first semi - trans- parent , but becoming brown with age and the ad- hesion thereto of foreign matter . When completed it is 32 VIGNETTES FROM INVISIBLE LIFE . 22.
... dwelling thus formed is about one- fiftieth of an inch in length , at first semi - trans- parent , but becoming brown with age and the ad- hesion thereto of foreign matter . When completed it is 32 VIGNETTES FROM INVISIBLE LIFE . 22.
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... parent , this arrangement , if intended for protection , * The eyes , both in Floscule and Stephanoceros , are generally supposed to exist only in the young . This is an error , for I have repea'cdly demonstrated by experiment their ...
... parent , this arrangement , if intended for protection , * The eyes , both in Floscule and Stephanoceros , are generally supposed to exist only in the young . This is an error , for I have repea'cdly demonstrated by experiment their ...
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Acinetons Actinophrys active algæ Amoeba Amoeboid animal and vegetable animalcules appearance attached beautiful become body canals Cassell & Company cells character Cheap Edition cilia Cloth gilt colony Coloured Plates Complete condition Conochilus contracted space creature crown delicate Demy 4to described developed Diatom Difflugia digestive disc embryo expanded exquisite eyes filaments flagellate Floscule flowers folded furnished gelatinous germs glass globe gradually half-morocco head Hydra Illustrations individual infusoria invisible invisible agent Lacinularia light Limnias living London Ludgate Hill mass matter Megalotrocha Melicertan membrane method microscope minute motion mouth mucous object observed organisation organisms Original parent perfect plant polypides ponds produced projecting protoplasm reproductive resemble revolving ringens Rotifera Rotifers round seen self-division shell silicious sketch species spicula spiculum Sponge statoblasts Stentors structure substance suctorial surrounding water tentacles tion transparent tree trochal tubular valves vegetable nature Vols Volvox Vorticella whole wonderful zones
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Page 153 - Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing. Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose! I never thought to ask, I never knew; But in my simple ignorance suppose The self-same Power that brought me there brought you.
Page x - The whole creation round. Contentment walks The sunny glade, and feels an inward bliss Spring o'er his mind, beyond the power of kings To purchase. Pure serenity apace Induces thought, and contemplation still. By swift degrees the love of Nature works, And warms the bosom; till at last sublim'd To rapture, and enthusiastic heat, We feel the present Deity, and taste The joy of God to see a happy world!