Beschreibung:
An entertaining and illustrated 1859 study of life through the lens of a microscope by an English naturalist.
Preface; 1. Hairs, feathers, and scales; 2. Blood; 3. Mollusca; 4. Sea-mats and shelly corallines; 5. Insects: wings and their appendages; 6. Insects: their breathing organs; 7. Insects: their feet; 8. Insects: stings and ovipositors; 9. Insects: their mouths; 10. Insects: their eyes and ears; 11. Crabs and shrimps; 12. Barnacles; 13. Spiders and mites; 14. Wheel-bearers; 15. Worms; 16. Sea-urchins and sea-cucumbers; 17. Jelly-fishes; 18. Zoophytes; 19. Sea-anenomes: their weapons; 20. Protozoa and sponges; 21 Infusoria; Index.