The Animal Kingdom, Arranged According to Its Organization, Serving as a Foundation for the Natural History of Animals, and an Introduction to the Comparative Anatomy
The Animal Kingdom, Arranged According to Its Organization, Serving as a Foundation for the Natural History of Animals, and an Introduction to the Comparative Anatomy
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. 1834 Excerpt: ...of which, Cythere, since the interesting and valuable observations of the latter upon the second or Cypris, appears to solicit a more profound examination than that of Muller, our only authority with respect to its characters, in order that they may be clearly defined. According to Miiller we find in the Ctthere, Mull. ...
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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. 1834 Excerpt: ...of which, Cythere, since the interesting and valuable observations of the latter upon the second or Cypris, appears to solicit a more profound examination than that of Muller, our only authority with respect to its characters, in order that they may be clearly defined. According to Miiller we find in the Ctthere, Mull.--Cytherina Lam. Eight simple feet, terminating in a point, and two equally simple setaceous antennae, composed of five or six joints, furnished with scattered hairs. They are found in the salt and brackish waters of the sea-coast among the Fuci and Confervae. Cypris, Mull. But six feet J; the two antennae terminated by a bundle of setae resembling a pencil. The shell forms an oval, laterally compressed body, with an arcuated and convex back, or towards the hinge; the opposite side is almost straight, or slightly emarginated or reniform. Before the hinge and on the median line is the eye, forming a large, blackish, round point. The intermediate antennae, inserted above, are shorter than the body, setaceous, composed of from seven to eight joints, the last of which are shortest and terminated by a bundle of twelve or fifteen setae, serving as fins. The mouth consists of a carinated labrum, two large dentated mandibles, each furnished with a triarticulated palpus, to the first segment of which adheres a small branchial leaf with five digitations, and two pairs of jaws. The two superior are much the largest, and have four moveable and silky appendages on their internal margin, and a large, pectinated, branchial lamina on their anterior edge; the second are composed of two joints, with a short, nearly conical, inarticulated palpus, silky at the end, as is the extremity of the jaws themselves. A sort of compressed sternum fulfils the functio...
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very good condition, rebound in brown cloth, 2 volumes of text in one volume and 2 volumes of plates oin the other volume. no dust jackets. shipping via USPS.
