. Boys and girls in biology : or, Simple studies of the lower forms of life. Biology. THE HUMAN AND THE POND AM(EBiE. 73 chance, though, as I told you before, these "colored folks" are more important than the "white ; The feet, or pseudopodia, of the savage tribe (Fig. 70) are thicker and shorter than the feet of the civilized kind (Fig. 71). It is very curious to watch how a foot, or psEUDOPODiuM, is made, especially that of the pond- amceba. First, there is a little swelling or lifting up of the glassy rim, or ectosarc (Fig. 72); as this swelling gets larger, some o
. Boys and girls in biology : or, Simple studies of the lower forms of life. Biology. THE HUMAN AND THE POND AM(EBiE. 73 chance, though, as I told you before, these "colored folks" are more important than the "white ; The feet, or pseudopodia, of the savage tribe (Fig. 70) are thicker and shorter than the feet of the civilized kind (Fig. 71). It is very curious to watch how a foot, or psEUDOPODiuM, is made, especially that of the pond- amceba. First, there is a little swelling or lifting up of the glassy rim, or ectosarc (Fig. 72); as this swelling gets larger, some of the inner flesh, or endosarc, flows into it, carrying the little grains till the swelling be- comes quite filled (Fig. 73). Then the walking is so funny; the feet do not act as the feet of other animals, Fig. Grains flowing inio Trying to walk. Stained with Magenta. Foot. carrying the body above them ; one stumpy foot is put out as far as it can reach (Fig. 74), then the body all runs into the foot; and another foot is stuck out from some other part, and away goes the body into this foot. This is the way it gets on; the feet actually swallowing the body! The toad sometimes swallows its old skin, but the amceba is the only animal I know which is 4. 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 Stevenson, Sarah Hackett, 1843-1909; Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895. New York : D. Appleton and company
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