Lectures on the comparative anatomy and physiology of the invertebrate animals : delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons . Vorticella. It has been objected to this interpretation given by Ehrenberg ofthe nature of the vacuola3 which receive and assimilate the nutrientmolecules, that certain species, as the Enchelis pupa, will swallowanother animacule nearly equal to itself in bulk, and thereby undergoa total change in the form of its body ; but this may only imply greatdilatability of the oesophagus or common canal, such as we observe inthe boa constrictor, which becomes in like manner defo
Lectures on the comparative anatomy and physiology of the invertebrate animals : delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons . Vorticella. It has been objected to this interpretation given by Ehrenberg ofthe nature of the vacuola3 which receive and assimilate the nutrientmolecules, that certain species, as the Enchelis pupa, will swallowanother animacule nearly equal to itself in bulk, and thereby undergoa total change in the form of its body ; but this may only imply greatdilatability of the oesophagus or common canal, such as we observe inthe boa constrictor, which becomes in like manner deformed after POLYGASTRIA. 25 gorging a goat or other animal much thicker than the snake itself;for doubtless the little cavities successively receive and digest, likethe stomach of the boa, the dissolved parts of the swallowed it has been further objected that the cavities are not fixed indefinite positions, but are seen constantly, though slowly, moving,and apparently rotating through the general cavity of the phenomenon, first observed by Focke in 1835*, led him to dis-sent from Ehrenbergs account o
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