. Animal activities; a first book in zoo?logy. Zoology; Animal behavior. Fig. 104.—Infusorial Earth {magnified).. Fig. 105. —Infusorians {inagnified). water will be found to be filled with many minute, one- celled, rapidly moving animals. A look at these through the microscope shows that their movements are due to the motion of hair-like projections on the body. These hair-like bodies are called cilia. One- celled animals which move by cilia are called Infusoria because some of their kind appear when infusions of hay or other vegetable matter are allowed to stand. Some of the Infusoria are fix
. Animal activities; a first book in zoo?logy. Zoology; Animal behavior. Fig. 104.—Infusorial Earth {magnified).. Fig. 105. —Infusorians {inagnified). water will be found to be filled with many minute, one- celled, rapidly moving animals. A look at these through the microscope shows that their movements are due to the motion of hair-like projections on the body. These hair-like bodies are called cilia. One- celled animals which move by cilia are called Infusoria because some of their kind appear when infusions of hay or other vegetable matter are allowed to stand. Some of the Infusoria are fixed by a stalk, or stem, like the bell-animalcule, or vorticella, shown in the figure, and some are rapidly moving free animals like those found in infusions of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original French, Nathaniel Stowers, 1854-. New York [etc. etc. ] Longmans, Green and Co
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