Science from an easy chair / by Sir Ray Lankester.

  • Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir, 1847-1929.
Date:
[1910]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Science from an easy chair / by Sir Ray Lankester. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FIG. PAGE 38. Copy of Part of Robert Hook’s Drawing of a Magnified Piece of Cork . . . .173 39. A Piece of Cartilage . . . . .174 40. Three Kinds of Cells . . . . 175 41. Two Specimens of a Bell-Animalcule (Vorticella) 196 42. Six Successive Stages in the Division of a “Cell” 201 43. Stages in the Growth from the Egg of the Common Frog ...... 210 44. Outline Drawings of Three European Tadpoles . 217 45. The Comet shown in the Bayeux Tapestry. . 232 46. The Cholera Spirillum, or Comma-Bacillus of Koch . ...... 241 47. A Young Spider ...... 288 48. View of the Lower Surface of the Head and Body of a Large Burmese Spider . . . 290 49. Section through the Body of a Spider to show the Spinning Organs . . . . .291 50. One of the Two Middle Spinnerets of the Com¬ mon Garden Spider (.Epeira diadema) . . 292 51. The Common Garden Spider, correctly called the White-Cross Spider (.Epeira diadema) . 293 52. On the Right Two Jumping Beans : on the Left the Caterpillar Removed from the Jumping Bean ....... 299 53. The Caterpillar of the Moth (Carpocapsa sal- titans) REMOVED FROM THE JUMPING BEAN . 300 54. The Moth (Carpocapsa saltitans) . . .301 55. Early Winged Female Hop-Louse . . . 316 56. Male Hop-Louse . . . . . .317 57. Ordinary Wingless Female Hop-Louse . . 318 58. Foundress or Stock-Mother of the Hop-Louse . 323 59. Side View of Winged Viviparous Female of the Hop-Louse . . . . . 323 60. An Ant “Milking” a “Plant-Louse” or “Green- Fly” for Honey-Dew • 324