 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1857 - 396 Seiten
...threads ! " I have sometimes," says Baker, " forced a worm from a polype the instant it has been seized, at the expense of breaking off the polype's arms,...afterwards, without one single instance of recovery."* On the other hand, the tiny water-fleas, and other minute Crustacea, frequently escape with impunity... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1857 - 398 Seiten
...chopped into pieces, and yet survive for hours, die suddenly from a touch of these gelatinous threads ! " I have sometimes," says Baker, " forced a worm from a polype the instant it has been seized, at the expense of breaking off the polype's arms, and have always observed it to die very soon... | |
 | 1858 - 836 Seiten
...chopped into pieces, and yet survive for hours, die suddenly from a touch of these gelatinous threads? " I have sometimes," says Baker, "forced a worm from a polype the instant it has been seized, at the expense of breaking off the polype's arms, and have always observed it to die very soon... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - 594 Seiten
...struggling, and so make its escape " (p. 68). But ho remarks in another place, — "I have sometimes forced a worm from a polype, the instant it has been...afterwards, without one single instance of recovery." He seems to have thought the hydra was possessed of teeth. " It is surprising to behold how soon a... | |
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I have sometimes," says Baker, " forced a worm from a polype the instant it has been seized, at the expense of breaking off the polype's arms, and have always observed it to die very soon afterwards, without one single instance of recovery... 
