Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, Part 2

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Royal Microscopical Society, 1891 - Microscopes
... containing its transactions and proceedings and a summary of current researches relating to zoology and botany (principally Invertebrata and Cryptogamia), microscopy, &c.
 

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Page 844 - Society shall be supported wholly or in part by annual voluntary contributions, and shall not, and by its laws may not, make any dividend, gift, division, or bonus in money unto or between any of its members...
Page 798 - And why the same objects produce a diversity of emotions in different individuals, and even in the same individual at different times?
Page 791 - phylaxin " is a defensive proteid which is only found in an animal that has been artificially made immune against a disease, and which, so far as is yet known, only acts on one kind of microbe or on its products. Each of these classes of defensive proteids can obviously be further sub-divided into those that act on the mibrobe itself and those that act on the poisons it generates. The sub-classes I propose to denote by adding the prefixes " myco-" and " toxo-
Page 833 - Method for the Estimation of the actual number of Tubercle Bacilli in Phthisical Sputum.§ — Dr.
Page 657 - ... smaller than -0005 of an inch are diffraction images from which the true structure may be argued, but which cannot be taken as in themselves true representations of the structure. ' The resulting image produced by means of a broad illuminating beam,
Page 574 - ... venusta, as it increases in frequency towards the top of the Gault, whilst M. venusta becomes less common. This variety appears in zone xi., 45 ft. from the top, very rare ; 35 ft., rare ; 12 ft., very common ; 6 ft., common. Miliolina tricarinata d'Orbigny sp., plate IX. figs. 9 a and b. Triloculina tricarinata d'Orbigny, 1826, Ann. Sci. Nat., vol. vii. p. 299, No. 7 ; Modele, No. 94. Hitherto this species has not been obtained from any formation earlier than the Eocene. Found in zone xi., 45...
Page 608 - ... radial nor ring canals in the endoderm of the umbrella, no velum, no sensory organs, and no mouth. 4. The medusae are formed by a metamorphosis of an ordinary zooid ; in the majority of cases dactylozooids, but in others gastrozooids. 5. The sperm- cells originate in the ectoderm of the ccenosarc and wander into the ectoderm of the zooids, where they fuse into aggregations to form a spermarium. 6. The young spermarium is formed at the distal extremity of the dactylozooid, and when it has reached...
Page 819 - The microscope and its revelations, by the late William B. Carpenter . . . 8th ed. in which the first seven and the twenty-third chapters have been entirely rewritten, and the text throughout reconstructed, enlarged, and revised by the Rev. WH Dallinger.
Page 689 - They can remain in this solution indefinitely without rusting or dulling the cutting edge. When required for operation they are taken out, dried with a sterilized piece of gauze and handed to the operator. Whenever, in course of...
Page 450 - His original hypothesis was formulated as follows : " If we suppose that a cilium is a hollow curved extension of the cell, occupied by hyaloplasm, and invested by a delicate elastic membrane, then it must follow that if there be a rhythmic flowing of hyaloplasm from the body of the cell, into and out of the cilium, an alternate extension and flexion of that process would thereby be brought about. . . . The same result might be got, supposing the cilium to be a straight and not a curved extension...

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