Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . ence at that period, to study afterwards cured the daughters of Prcetus, kingof Argos, of mental derangement, with hellebore;and from this circumstance it became so celebrateda medicine for mad people, that naviga ad Anticyramwas a common proverb used to hypochondriacalpersons, which meant sail to Anticyra, an islandin the Gulf of Corinth, where the Hellebore flourishedin great abundance.—Henry Philips. in HARDWICKES SCIENCE-GOSSIP. [Dec. 1, 1866. A WHEEL ANIMALCULE. (St
Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . ence at that period, to study afterwards cured the daughters of Prcetus, kingof Argos, of mental derangement, with hellebore;and from this circumstance it became so celebrateda medicine for mad people, that naviga ad Anticyramwas a common proverb used to hypochondriacalpersons, which meant sail to Anticyra, an islandin the Gulf of Corinth, where the Hellebore flourishedin great abundance.—Henry Philips. in HARDWICKES SCIENCE-GOSSIP. [Dec. 1, 1866. A WHEEL ANIMALCULE. (Stephanops lamellaris.) SOME time ago one of our correspondents sentfor identification a very characteristic sketch ofa strange Rotifer, which for some time remainedunnamed; simply because no figure which we hadseen resembled it enough for us to give the namewith confidence. At length an opportunity pre-sented itself, and it was submitted to a most excel-lenf authority on the subject, so that not only arewe enabled to furnish the name for a correspondent,but to give a figure of the animal for the benefit of. Fig. 25S. Stephanops lamellaris. a, front view; b, side Drawing by P. H. Gosse, Esq. any one who may hereafter capture it. Before pro-ceeding to give its name and character, it is but justthat we should acknowledge, that the sketch alludedto being somewhat deficient in detail, we are indebtedto Mr. P. H. Gosse for the loan of a drawing fromwhich our woodcuts have been engraved. The genus of animalcules to which our speciesbelongs has the front of the lorica expanded into ahood or shield. In a side view this hood gives avery eccentric character to the present species, sothat it looks] a very caricature. Leydig affirms ofStephanops lamellaris that the eye has a distincthemispherical lens, and thus the little animal receives additional dignity, and becomes invested with animportance shared only by one or two others in thesame family. Only one other species is recorde
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