This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... filling up the centre of the body. The mouth is underneath, and is surrounded by cilia, by the use of which it not only feeds, but moves through the water with great speed. This circumstance would indicate its relation to the rotifers in some stage of progress. " Differing entirely from this, except in the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... filling up the centre of the body. The mouth is underneath, and is surrounded by cilia, by the use of which it not only feeds, but moves through the water with great speed. This circumstance would indicate its relation to the rotifers in some stage of progress. " Differing entirely from this, except in the form of the head, is that active monster, with a long, flexible body, many-jointed and hairy. How he wriggles, contracts, and stretches out, as if he would never reach the end of his flexibility! Unless our power is low we can never have him all under the eye at once. He seems also to possess the tenacity of life given to the polyps, as I have often cut one in two--a circumstance which he did not seem to mind, as both parts kept right on with unabated activity. Watch, and see what huge mouthfuls he takes up, which you can trace in its whole progress through the animal until it is finally ejected. The color of the one before us is reddish brown, although I have seen them nearly colorless, or tinged with green, owing. no doubt, to the nature of the food used. I have observed a peculiar habit of this annelida--the passage of two currents of water into the apertures on each side of the tail, which seem to pass up near the head, where they enter the alimentary canal, and then turn their course, and are ejected with the other contents of the stomach. If this be the fact--and I have verified it again and again--it is a wonderful provision of Nature. " But here is the leviathan of our minute ocean I A. nondescript, a worm, a quadruped! You can Annelida with Legs and Horns. barely distinguish him with the eye as a whitish Elament, but under our instruments what a monster! His head is a hard shell, with two staring eyes and a pair of long, straight...
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