. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. Mil III i! .^ It '% mm aMicli ,. vuhinhie oven at the jTesent day, owiug to the clearness and occasional onlhancy o the descriptions, and the nnniber and accuracy of the engravin.^s '^ Whs called a 1 these creatures by the name of ;, a title now .riven to ono of the true vegetables, but discovered ,y anatomical and v-hysiolo-dcal detads and?f then- annual natxire beyond a doubt. All his researches ed viU 'he a
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. Mil III i! .^ It '% mm aMicli ,. vuhinhie oven at the jTesent day, owiug to the clearness and occasional onlhancy o the descriptions, and the nnniber and accuracy of the engravin.^s '^ Whs called a 1 these creatures by the name of ;, a title now .riven to ono of the true vegetables, but discovered ,y anatomical and v-hysiolo-dcal detads and?f then- annual natxire beyond a doubt. All his researches ed viU 'he aid ns run, ^ m our day would be thought almost useless, the microscope en pw" being only a simple lens mounted on a stand, and devoid of the complicated IppmS and illuminating tliat allbrd such aid to th(= observer ^PP^'^'^tus lor .nnft,nl f^/?'"""^^ "''["'" "^*''" ^'"'^'"^'"^ ^'^'^ ^'"''' ^'""''^y established, they wore confounded with many other marine and aquatic inhabitan!., sfich as the corals andtl l various zoophytes, in consequence of the superficial resembiunce between their eTt 'r thT'oft ' ^ ^' !'?^7'^^t^^'^â¢â '⢠true place in the animal kingdom has been discovers 2 nf r 1^ ^'f' the ower molluscs clearly proved, th^, tunicates forming tlu' .C- ^nSiestllS""" " â¢'"""' ^""^" '"' "" molluscoids, as these akimals^⢠Having glanced at the general history of these curious and really beaiitifol animal, we will proceed to examine tii. Inrm and characteristics of the individual speci-s. ' Should the reader obtain from the sea or water a being which i,=^ either a zoophy e or one of the Polyzoa, he may set hi,, doubts at by exam, in' S en , and i he finds that ii>.,v are with , dia, or minute filament el ' assure himselt that they bel.;,, to th, .-t' anima
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