| 单词 | animalcule |
| 例句 | With it he discovered a universe in a drop of water: the microbes, which he described as “animalcules” and thought “cute.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And then there are the names: where its cultural presence permits, each animal or animalcule is followed by a list of folk nomenclature. Bugs Britannica by Peter Marren, edited by Richard Mabey 2010-06-11T23:15:00Z Upon learning of a red snowfield in the Swiss Alps, the American Naturalist reported that a Mr. Shuttleworth “betook himself thither” with his microscope and declared the color due to tiny animalcules. Algae blooms that cause pink snow could accelerate melting as Earth warms 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z He owed all of this to one thing: His cutting edge microscopes and their ability to study "animalcules," as bacteria were then called. The scientist who discovered sperm was so grossed out he hoped his findings would be repressed 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z Despite the limitations of his now-ancient lenses, van Leeuwenhoek observed the movements of single-celled organisms, which he collectively termed “animalcules.” Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z The last time this tiny wheel animalcule was moving around, wooly mammoths roamed the earth. The Incredible, Reanimated, 24,000 Year Old Rotifer 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z Stentors — or trumpet animalcules — are a group of single-celled freshwater protozoa. The best science images of the year: 2019 in pictures 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z In an ordinary drop of water, he wrote, he’d found “little eels, or worms, lying all huddled up together and wriggling … the whole water seemed to be alive with these multifarious animalcules.” Button Salesman Discovers Most of Life on Earth: True Story 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z They also searched for such clues in animalcules, where Needham’s interest and experience were sharpest. This is how science lost God: Atheism, evolution and the long road to Richard Dawkins’ latest Twitter controversy 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z The sample was teeming with “many very little living animalcules, very prettily a-moving.” A Microscope to Save the World 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z From this perspective, human health is a form of ecology in which care for the body also involves tending its teeming population of resident animalcules. Microbes in the Gut Are Essential to Our Well-Being 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z See Infusoria. µ Many of the soÐcalled animalcules have been shown to be plants, having locomotive powers something like those of animals. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Right away, he wanted people to know that there was a vast community of “animalcules,” as he called them, everywhere. Button Salesman Discovers Most of Life on Earth: True Story 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z For, what were the spermatozoa he saw in his microscope if not little animalcules? This is how science lost God: Atheism, evolution and the long road to Richard Dawkins’ latest Twitter controversy 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z Microscopic experiments daily demonstrate the existence of myriads of animalcules in every substance. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Of course, he admitted that the water in the Indian and Pacific Oceans has frequent patches of red, brown, or white colour, from the myriads of animalcules suspended in the water. Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z It was a momentous revolution, when the first tiny animalcule tore itself loose from immobility, when it conquered the ability to move about in quest of food and a larger life. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z We are of no more importance in the scale of Nature than those myriads of animalcules whose natural life is but for the space of an hour, or but a moment. An Address to Men of Science Calling Upon Them to Stand Forward and Vindicate the Truth.... 2011-12-24T03:08:05.883Z The existence of animalcules in the generative secretion was first noticed by Lewis Hamme, a young German student, and shown by him to Leeuwenhoeck, who published an account of them. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z This membrane, with the albuminous fluid it contains and the animalcule in the center of it, constitutes the ovum or egg. Fruits of Philosophy A Treatise on the Population Question 2011-12-03T03:00:10.910Z I think you will agree with me that it must have taken some time for the skeletons of animalcules of a hundredth of an inch in diameter to heap up such a mass as that. Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley 2011-11-24T03:00:46.350Z Cases may probably be found in tropical seas, where rivers have prevented the working of the coral animalcules in straits separating islands from each other or from the mainland. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z My man, horrified at the outcry of his animalcules, wanted to stop the operation; but I persisted, telling him that malignant creatures were already gnawing at his bones. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z Hartzoeken wrote upon the subject the following year, and asserted that he had seen these animalcules three years before they had been observed by Hamme. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The Vorticellina belong to the upper division of the Protozoa—the ciliata, or ciliated animalcules, and they have a mouth, an œsophagus, and an orifice for the exit of their food. Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations 2011-08-01T02:00:12.067Z It is wisdom to respect the infinitely little, for God comes close behind the animalcule, life simplified to a mere cell. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z And poor, puny man, what a mere speck—a mere infinitisimal animalcule. A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead 2011-05-03T02:00:15.900Z But he supposed that which the book called Protozoa, the one-celled animalcules, were the same as germs. The Rotifers 2011-04-18T02:00:10.237Z Buffon, however, and other naturalists, contended that these were not animalcules, but organic particles; and Linnæus imagined them to be inert molecules, thrown into agitation by the warmth of the fluid. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z As the plants in the bottles decayed, some of the animalcules died off and others appeared. Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations 2011-08-01T02:00:12.067Z Stomach cyst, an animalcule which is nothing more than a bag, without limbs or organs; one of the infusoria, the simplest of creatures endowed with animal life. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z In the water you use are to be found teeming millions of living and moving animalcules. A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead 2011-05-03T02:00:15.900Z But unluckily there was another animalcule in a square cap, who, taking the word from all his philosophical brethren, affirmed that he knew the whole secret, which was contained in the abridgment of St. Thomas. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z He found these animalcules in the human species to be of an oval form, with a tail tapering to a point. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Unlike most animalcules they are susceptible of being preserved by drying upon glass, and we subjoin a figure from Pritchard, of one thus treated, in which the star-shaped vesicles are clearly seen. Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations 2011-08-01T02:00:12.067Z And, furthermore, how could animals feed on plants without destroying, as they now do, multitudes of minute insects and animalcules? The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z Mention an instance of the abundant occurrence in the sea of animalcules with siliceous coverings and skeletons. Geology 2011-02-20T03:00:12.660Z Dr. Leidy lately described to the Academy of Sciences in Philadelphia an encounter for life which he witnessed between two microscopic animalcules. The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z They were of various sizes, and perfectly distinct from all species of animalcules found in vegetable infusions, &c. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Another of the treasures from the pond was a species of Trachelius, or long-necked ciliated animalcule, which kept darting in and out of a slimy den, attached to the leaf of a water-plant. Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations 2011-08-01T02:00:12.067Z She discovered one of those animalcules which ... plague take oratorical precautions! Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z It is true, that occasionally living animalcules are found in this thickened sebaceous matter, but they can only be detected by the aid of the microscope. A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers The animals it produces are among the mightiest and the smallest, from monstrous whales and walruses down to the tiny animalcules. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands This doctrine of life being perpetuated by the transmission of animated particles, or animalcules, is by no means of modern date. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z On one occasion a glimpse was caught of a Rotifer similar in shape to the common wheel animalcule, but with a yellow inside. Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations 2011-08-01T02:00:12.067Z Some marine animalcules, the Radiolaria, have skeletons of silica. The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight The amoeba—tiny animalcules, don't you know, that have the power of changing their form and appearance. The Haunted Pajamas Most of these animalcules are so small that if it were not for the microscope we should never even know of their existence. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands It thus appears that, notwithstanding the absurd doctrines of generation being founded upon the existence of these animalcules, they clearly do exist. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Sometimes animalcules in the vicinity of Floscules whirl about as if under the influence of such currents. Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations 2011-08-01T02:00:12.067Z We aspire in vain to assign limits to the works of creation in space, whether we examine the starry heavens, or that world of minute animalcules which is revealed to us by the microscope. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology No; we have no recoil against this generation of an animalcule by the wonderful chemistry of God; our objection to this doctrine is, that it is not proved. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 The whole of the universe made visible by Lord Rosse's telescope actually shrinks to the dimensions of an animalcule in the comparison. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. In a former paper I have recorded recent observations, where animalcules of a peculiar description were found in the purulent secretion attending various affections. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z At this time two interesting animalcules were very plentiful—the Euplotes patella, and Stylonichia, both remarkable as exhibiting an advance in organization, which approximates them to the higher animals. Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations 2011-08-01T02:00:12.067Z Minute living creatures found in many infusions; and the term infusori has been given to all such animalcules, whether found in infusions or in stagnant water, vinegar, &c. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology They swarmed in deep water, and so did minute sponge animalcules and plant forms called Diatoms that took silica from the water, and formed their hard parts of this glassy substance. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place The parasitic animalcule, which preys upon or within the body of a larger animal, is itself preyed upon by parasites peculiar to itself. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. I placed under a microscope a watch-glass with a drop of distilled water, after having carefully ascertained that it did not contain any visible animalcules. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The Stylonichia are oval animalcules, surrounded by cilia, and having moreover a collection of styles, both straight and curved, the latter called uncini, or little hooks. Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations 2011-08-01T02:00:12.067Z The smallest of visible animalcules, spoken of by Buffon and his followers as constituting the elementary molecules of organic beings. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology What millions upon millions of animalcules, and these again multiplied, must contribute to produce this aquatic illumination. The Pearl of India With these images before your minds, you may well ask, what community of form, or structure, is there between the animalcule and the whale, or between the fungus and the fig tree? The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse The same physiologist discovered animalcules in the pus of certain ulcers not dissimilar in appearance to the vibrio lineola of Müller. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z An animalcule tank will succeed best when it contains two or three kinds of growing plants, which oxygenize the air, and a moderate variety of decomposing organisms will supply food without making the water offensive. Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations 2011-08-01T02:00:12.067Z There are, perhaps, more than a million species of plants and animals, exclusive of the microscopic and infusory animalcules, now inhabiting the terraqueous globe. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology Perhaps there is not a living thing, from the hugest animal down to the minutest animalcule, whose pleasant associations are not circumscribed, or that has not some favorite retreats. Thoughts on African Colonization The microscope reveals innumerable animalcules in the hundredth part of a drop of water. Communism and Christianism Analyzed and Contrasted from the Marxian and Darwinian Points of View In the light of such a r�le the animalcule takes on a new interest. A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science It is very important to note the changing appearance of animalcules, and where the same individuals can be observed from day to day, these will often be found considerable. Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations 2011-08-01T02:00:12.067Z But there were not plants only, the water also teemed with swarms of animalcules, mostly infusoria and flagellata, which subsisted on the plants. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I The theory is, that a molecular mass which is developed in certain solutions or infusions, may, under the influence of different circumstances, produce either animalcules or fungi. Fungi: Their Nature and Uses But there was, unfortunately, a little animalcule in a square hat who interrupted all the other animalcule philosophers. Romans — Volume 3: Micromegas The highest of the group are the animalcules, which are named Infusoria, most of which are freely swimming organisms, though a certain number of them live fixed to some supporting body. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 It is, however, probable, from the stronger texture and greater organic development of this animalcule, that it does not divide so easily as the softer and simpler kinds. Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations 2011-08-01T02:00:12.067Z Along the top and sides of this mountain range grow vegetable substances and small animalcules that provide excellent feeding for the vast hosts of cod that yearly swim across it. The Harbor of Doubt “In all these cases, no kind of animalcule or fungus is ever seen to originate from preexisting cells or larger bodies, but always from molecules.” Fungi: Their Nature and Uses Do we not bodies see “Decaying slow with moisture and with heat, “To animalcules chang'd? The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II Here also may be mentioned certain curious aquatic worms called Gasterotricha, which are closely allied to the wheel animalcules. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 Frequent examination of this animalcule has created a strong doubt in my mind whether it is rightly placed in our "systems." Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations 2011-08-01T02:00:12.067Z And it may be asked what advantage, as far as we can see, would it be to an infusorian animalcule—to an intestinal worm, or even to an earthworm—to be highly organized. Introduction to the Science of Sociology The middle waters are the home of various Fishes, Medusæ, and animalcules, while the upper layers swarm with an inexhaustible variety of living creatures. The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In But in this island, where we are to swarm like animalcules in a drop of water, I shall be relieved of all responsibility. Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy His unity of organization, of which the humblest animalcule is a simple type, goes far beyond the preservation or even the improvement of his species: it touches the infinite though it cannot contain it. Progress and History Most of these animalcules, however, are so small that if it were not for the microscope we should never know of their existence. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands The newborn animalcule amazes us with its foresight; the adult insect astonishes us with its stupidity. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Concentrated here in small compass is every form and variety of living thing, from lowliest plant to forest monarch, from simplest animalcule to elephant, monkey, and man. The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty The response to its charm is felt by every living thing, even by the smallest green plant and the invisible animalcule, as it is by man himself. More Science From an Easy Chair These eels were probably at first as minute as other microscopic animalcules; but by frequent, perhaps hourly reproduction, have gradually become the large animals above described, possessing wonderful strength and activity. The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes Inferior brown sugars are often full of a certain crab-like animalcule or minute bug, often visible without a microscope, in water where the sugar is dissolved. The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages The animalcule and microbic life, itself microscopic, has yet its own order of sense-organs related to a world of vitality beyond our ken. How to Read the Crystal or, Crystal and Seer Mr. Reddie informs me that I have not said a single word against his books, though I have given nearly a column to sixteen-string arithmetic, and as much to animalcule universes. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II As I stand on the mountain-side we are all, from animalcule to man, sympathizing and uniting, as members of one great race, in our adoration of the sun. More Science From an Easy Chair Lewenhoek observed in rain-water which had stood a few days, the smallest scarcely visible microscopic animalcules, and in a few more days he observed others eight times as large; English Encyclop. The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes In its immature form it is not unlike certain microscopic animalcules known as amœboe. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science It exhibited more affection towards its master than to strangers, and would climb up to his head a dozen times in an hour, and make great show of searching for certain animalcule. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America Say that the blood-globule of one of our animalcules is a millionth of an inch in diameter. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II These latter agents, actual particles of the living animal in which they exist, are the "eater-cells," or "phagocytes"—minute, viscid, actively moving cells, resembling the animalcules called "amœba." More Science From an Easy Chair These animalcules are discovered in two or three days in all decompositions of organic matter, whether vegetable or animal, in moderate degrees of warmth with sufficient moisture. The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes Recent accounts show, that the dust collected from the atmosphere at sea, many miles from land, generally contains some of these dried animalcules and their ova. A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' No doubt the microscope would show countless numbers of minute animalcules, but I detect no Melicertæ. Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children The tiniest fly, the smallest animalcule, the dust of a butterfly's wing, however highly you may magnify them, are seen to be absolutely perfect. A Ribband of Blue And Other Bible Studies It is not much bigger than a pin-head, yet hundreds of the lovely, fertile islands of the Pacific Ocean are formed by this busy animalcule. The Cannibal Islands Captain Cook's Adventure in the South Seas They appear to enlarge in a few days, and some to change their form; which are probably converted from more simple into more complicate animalcules by repeated reproductions. The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes Then it seems reasonable to believe, that the improved observations of future times will clear up the only remaining difficulty, and show how the infusory animalcules also are generated from beings of their own kind. A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' He had dipped up some of the water, finding in it animalcule, which would, however, not account for phenomena of geometric formation and high velocity. The Book of the Damned We are confederacies of billions upon billions of little, living animalcules which we call cells. Preventable Diseases An animalcule that does not wriggle must be morbid or peculiar. The Daughters of Danaus At the same time new microscopic animalcules would immediately commence wherever there was warmth and moisture, and some organic matter, that might induce putridity. The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes His first form is that which is permanent in the animalcule. A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' The amoeba is constantly changing its shape, whence its older name of the Proteus animalcule, thrusting out masses of its substance in one direction, and withdrawing from another, and hence slowly creeping about. Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata The vastness of their numbers, and their exceeding minuteness, are circumstances, discovered in the examination of these animalcules, of uncommon interest. The Ocean and its Wonders No; it would only mean that the animalcule had returned to the occupations of its ditch, while the worlds and the peoples went spinning to their destiny. The Daughters of Danaus When the animalcule is stained with eosin, the nervous system can very readily be made out and followed throughout all of its ramifications. The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals These germs, multiplying themselves by fissiparous generation, will constitute a stock of animals of a low type, such as a tribe of infusory animalcules. A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' But alas, in the very effort to escape, she had caught the eye of the Professor; he sprang up—pond, animalcule all forgotten in the chase of this extraordinary butterfly. 'That Very Mab' The marine animalcule, experiencing a sudden influx of delight, darts hither and thither under the strong impulse of its exuberant glee; and the result is, that its little body gleams with light. The Ocean and its Wonders This microscope was far too valuable an instrument in the contentions of party, ever to be put aside; and the animalcules, duly magnified to the frightful size required, were turned into first-rate electioneering agents. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 This investigator witnessed a similar act in an animalcule belonging, it is true, to another family, but which is almost, if not quite, as simple in its organization as Stentor. The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals "These animalcules," says Ehrenberg, "constitute a chain, which, though in the individual it be microscopic, yet in the mass is a mighty one, connecting the organic life of distant ages of the earth." A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' Once individual man was insignificant; but now the earth itself is become so,—a mere dot in infinite space, where, for a moment, men wriggle like animalcules in a drop of water. Education and the Higher Life About one hundred and fifty millions of these animalcules would have abundant room in a tumbler of water!” The Ocean and its Wonders This is not all; up to the present time the animalized corpuscle we are considering is still only a primitive animalcule because it as yet has no special organ. Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work Each grain of sand, each particle of decayed vegetable matter, etc., is, to these microscopic animalcules, a gigantic boulder, a mighty muck heap. The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals If the inherent qualities of matter have built up a solar system, they may have created, also, the first animalcule, the first fish, the first quadruped, and the first man. A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' In the 17th century Leeuenhoek, applying the microscope almost at random, discovered fact after fact, his most famous discovery being that of the "spermatic animalcules." Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology Another feature is that the locomotor activity of an animalcule often shows a distinct individuality: it may swim, for instance, in a loose spiral. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told The physician detected the animalcules and plants and crystals with the microscope, and explained to her how he wanted them represented. Girls and Women These obstacles in the path undoubtedly serve as landmarks to the wandering myriads of microscopic animalcules. The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals Born of electricity and albumen, the simple monad is the first living atom; the microscopic animalcules, the snail, the worm, the reptile, the fish, the bird, and the quadruped, all spring from its invisible loins. Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws The same attraction holds together the animalcule, the sponge, the system, and the Universe. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry They are subject to the depredations of certain animalcules, which excavate the tubers so that they soon become riddled with worms. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure Experience teaches me that I must; else shall I have that annoying animalcule, the microscopic critic, coming down upon me in print with his petty objection that "Mr. Crawford is an American." Post-Prandial Philosophy I soon discovered the cause in the presence of a water-louse, an animal which feeds on these animalcules. The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals Because there were no plankton, no animalcules, no tiny, gluey, organic beings in it to give the water the property of making foam which endured. Operation: Outer Space The little eels in vinegar, and the animalcules in pepper-water, I believe, are quarrelsome. Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States But with the animalcules of the sea I obtained most gratifying relations. Tales of the Chesapeake That these noxious animalcules and insects mentioned above are hatched from eggs which have been carried to the spot, or which have lain hidden everywhere in the ground since creation, is opposed to all observation. Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom Even the very lowest animalcules give this evidence as to the kinship of nerve and ganglionic or brain elements in man and the lower animals. The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals These movements are termed amoebiform, because they quite resemble the movements of a small animalcule which is named amoeba. Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky We find the same admirable economy of resources amongst the lower animalcules. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 423 Volume 17, New Series, February 7, 1852 Metschnikoff's first observations were made on the daphnea, a small animalcule just visible to the naked eye which lives in fresh water. Disease and Its Causes And the poor infinitesimal porters and guards, how pathetically small seems their share in the great monosyllable Man, animalcules in that great social system which, again, is but an animalcule in the blood of Time. Prose Fancies He that eats a particular animalcule found in stagnant water, receives four times forty stripes save one. Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Every living creature from a man to a mushroom, or even to the smallest animalcule or unicellular plant is always partly fluid, but never entirely so. Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky After passing through certain changes here, the egg issues from the maternal pouch as an oval body, clothed with cilia—an animalcule in external aspect, and as unlike its parent as can well be imagined. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 423 Volume 17, New Series, February 7, 1852 These animalcules raise their habitation gradually from a small base, always spreading more and more, in proportion as the structure grows higher. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 Future races of these animalcules erect their habitations upon the rising bank, and die in their turn to increase, but principally to elevate, this monument of their wonderful labours. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 More surely than the eagle escapes the arrow, the animalcule escapes being crushed. The Man Who Laughs Some of them are formless, and, as to shape, ever-altering masses, resembling that familiar animalcule of our pools we know as the Amoeba. Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky He sees a whole universe which is ridiculous, from the animalcule, with a head too big for its body, up to the comet, with a tail too big for its head. The Defendant The reef, or the first origin of these cells, is formed by the animalcules inhabiting the lithophytes. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 The jubarte was all this time swimming in the middle of the vast red field of crustaceans, opening its large mouth automatically, and absorbing at each draught myriads of animalcules. Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen Besides these young oysters, the liquor contains a great variety of animalcules, five hundred times less in size, which emit a phosphoric light. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 331, September 13, 1828 They exist by thousands in many parts of the world, varying in size from the huge skeleton of the elephant to the tiny shell of the microscopic animalcule. Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky Many are microscopic, and belong to the class of animalcules called Infusoria. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Flowers and trees, birds and fishes, locusts and mastodons, all things, from the tiniest animalcule to man, were there, unmodelled, not even in embryo,—their separate existences then only in the mind of God. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 The red earth, like that of the Pampas, in which these remains were embedded, contains, according to Professor Ehrenberg, eight fresh-water and one salt-water infusorial animalcule; therefore, probably, it was an estuary deposit. The Voyage of the Beagle The infusorial animalcules do so, reversing the functions of animal life, and instead of evolving carbonic acid gas, as other animals do, evolve pure oxygen. Glaucus, or the Wonders of the Shore The animalcule that the marine polypus secretes live by millions at the bottom of their cells. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea This aptitude of revivification is found to a high degree in animalcules of low order. Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 But did the animalcule and she crawl over the rubric together, or did they not? The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 But while, in harmony with your intimation, I must regard you one of the animalcules, rearing the coral reef of public opinion, I cannot admit your disclaimer of "special influence" among them in their work. Slavery Ordained of God There is not a fly that floats, nor a fish that swims, nor an animalcule that navigates its little drop of sea-spray, but bears a burden of hope to despairing humanity. Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays The true social peril, hardly discovered before we became aware how to conjure it, lies in those legions of animalcules or microbes that surround us and in the middle of which we live. Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 In savage lands warfare rages on, ceaseless, ignoble, unrecorded, and seemingly purposeless as that of animalcules in a drop of water. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV Future races of these animalcules erect their habitations upon the rising bank, and die in their turn, to increase, but principally to elevate, this monument of their wonderful labours. The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders "The opinion of each individual," you remark, "contributes to form public sentiment, as the labor of the animalcule in the ocean contributes to the coral reefs that rise above the waves." Slavery Ordained of God His first form is that which is permanent in the animalcule. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation But even those contagious diseases that are caused by skin germs or animalcules will not be wholly cured by any applications whatever. Dogs and All about Them An animalcule in my blood Rose up against me as I dreamed, He was so tiny as he stood, You had not heard him, though he screamed. Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy; and Other Poems The abundance of fish is also due to the presence of masses of glutinous matter, apparently living protoplasm, which furnishes nutriment for millions of animalcules which again become food for the herring and other fish. Norwegian Life I write as one of the animalcules contributing to the coral reef of public opinion. Slavery Ordained of God It has even been found that both are alike provided with those cilia, which, producing a revolving motion, or its appearance, is partly the cause of the name given to this animalcule. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation The question of the generation of the infusory animalcules thus passed into a new phase. Discourses Biological and Geological Essays This holds good throughout the whole range of living things except the lower forms of plant and animal life, such as fungi and animalcule. Men Women and God He is the author of very detailed and interesting researches upon the microscopic animalcules of America. Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence Cases may probably be found, in tropical seas, where rivers have prevented the working of the coral animalcules in straits separating islands from each other or from the mainland. The Earth as Modified by Human Action The nature of the animalcule, or vegetable production, bears a constant relation to the state of the infusion, so that, in similar circumstances, the same are always produced without this being influenced by the atmosphere. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation He said to himself, If these infusorial animalcules come from germs, their germs must exist either in the substance infused, or in the water with which the infusion is made, or in the superjacent air. Discourses Biological and Geological Essays Thus the coral animalcule rears its polypidom or rocky structure in warm latitudes, and constructs reefs or barriers round islands. The Fairy-Land of Science Animalcule The plural of this word is animalcules. Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking Whether any animalcule will breed in it, and in how long time ? The Natural History of Wiltshire When the quantity of water is very small, and the organic matter abundant, the production is usually of a vegetable nature; when there is much water, animalcules are more frequently produced.” Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Needham found that, under the circumstances in which he made his experiments, animalcules always did arise in the infusions, when a sufficient time had elapsed to allow for their development. Discourses Biological and Geological Essays And the lower forms of animalcules have a singular tenacity of life; they can pass unharmed through processes which would be fatal to creatures of higher organization. Story of Creation as Told By Theology and By Science Of voluntary capacities and powers the newborn infant possesses little more than the simplest unicellular animalcule, that is, about all it can do is to scent and swallow food. Nature Cure Who can these laggards be but animalcules that have roamed too long in the walls of the nest? The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography The microscope cannot find the animalcule which is less perfect for being little. Essays — First Series And if this were not sufficient evidence of the animality of Colpoda, there comes the fact that it is even more similar to another well-known animalcule, Paramoecium, than it is to a monad. Discourses Biological and Geological Essays But man contemplates the universe as an animalcule would an elephant. Zanoni Thus, different infectious disorders might proceed from peculiar species of animalcules, which, at given periods, are wafted into certain countries, carrying pestilence and death in their invisible course. Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon The animalcule explores its dish, now here, now elsewhere; it runs all over it with looper strides; it pries into the neighborhood by lifting and shaking its head. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography And it may be asked what advantage, as far as we can see, would it be to an infusorian animalcule—to an intestinal worm—or even to an earth-worm, to be highly organised. The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition I apprehended that it clearly belongs to the tiger species, since the parasite animalcule found in its paw, like that in the Asiatic tiger, is a miniature image of itself. The Coming Race Each one of ourselves has sprung from minute animalcules whose entity was entirely distinct from our own, and which acted after their kind with no thought or heed of what we might think about it. Erewhon Unclean sewers, filthy hovels, unswept streets, unwashed clothes, are therefore breeders of animalcules, many of which are perfectly visible without microscopic aid. Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon And so I am ready to allow that the animalcule wandering in search of its cell has the whole area of the dome at its disposal when selecting an entrance. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography INFUSORIA.—A class of microscopic animalcules, so called from their having originally been observed in infusions of vegetable matters. The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition My patient, frightened by the cries of his animalcules, wanted to stop the operation; but I went on regardless of his remonstrances; telling him that those evil animals were already gnawing at his bones. Catherine De Medici These animalcules, it must be recollected, are bits of almost pure plasm, and, as they live in crowds, dividing and subdividing, but never dying, make excellent mouthfuls for a small feeder. The Story of Evolution It is well known that different mixtures, which are at first pure and apparently free from all insect life, will, in the course of their fermentation and subsequent impurity, generate peculiar species of animalcules. Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon Shall physical or chemical forces explain why the animalcule digs into the hard clay? The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Before taking leave of the animalcule, let us devote a few lines to its instinct. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography "Your animalcules must be dead," said his wife. Catherine De Medici It will be remembered that the Cretaceous ocean over Southern Europe had swarmed with the animalcules whose dead skeletons largely compose our chalk-beds. The Story of Evolution |
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