Author: Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780656404377
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Excerpt from The Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club, Vol. 5: 1878-79 The sponge before you is but a small portion of that I discovered, but it was with difficulty I obtained it from its narrow secluded habitat. As you see, it covers a piece of the Red Sandstone, very thinly; its stoutest part not rising above the eighth of an inch, whilst the average thickness is less than half that. Alive it was smooth, slightly undulating, sarcode abundant, neither oscula nor pores very distinct, the former few in number. In the dried condi tion, the oscula are more easily discernible they are dispersed and generally separate, but sometimes two are found together. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.