 | Johannes Japetus Sm. Steenstrup - 1845 - 180 Seiten
...alternately solitary and associated, so that a Salpa mother, to use Chamisso's familiar expression, is not like its daughter or its own mother, but resembles...its sister, its granddaughter, and its grandmother. Against this theory of the alternate generations of the Salpa, its intelligent author had many attacks... | |
 | William Henry Harvey - 1849 - 270 Seiten
...animals are found solitary ; at other times SALPA RONOINATA, IN ITS FRES AND ASSOCIATED STATES. linked together in long chains, composed of many similar...ably discussed; and the Author has, I think, clearly established his position that even metamorphoses so unexpected as these, are not at variance with the... | |
 | George Johnston - 1850 - 634 Seiten
...alternately solitary and associated, so that a Salpa mother," to use Chamisso's familiar expression, " is not like its daughter or its own mother, but resembles...its sister, its granddaughter, and its grandmother." — The doctrine has been extended to other classes of the lower animals by Steenstrup, whose attempt... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1854 - 344 Seiten
...produce solitary beings, but chained. Consequently, as Chamisso graphically observes, ' a Salpa mother is not like its daughter or its own mother, but resembles its sister, its grandaughter, and its grandmother.' " * More recent researches have fully confirmed the correctness... | |
 | Thomas Rymer Jones - 1858 - 588 Seiten
...solitary Salpae, which iu their turn give birth, not to solitary beings, but chained ; consequently a Salpa-mother is not like its daughter, or its own...its sister, its granddaughter, and its grandmother. These remarkable animals are most difficult subjects for observation: ORGANIZATION AND HABITS OP SALVM.... | |
 | Henry Adams, Arthur Adams - 1858 - 706 Seiten
...Tunicaries it was, moreover, that Chamisso made the no less extraordinary discovery that " a 6'«//w-mother is not like its daughter or its own mother, but resembles...its sister, its granddaughter, and its grandmother." The Pyrosomes afford a spectacle to the naturalist of unexampled beauty when, seen by myriads from... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1859 - 536 Seiten
...Generations ; in which, as Chamisso, the first discoverer of the strange facts, observed, — " a mother is not like its daughter, or its own mother, but resembles...sister, its grand-daughter, and its grandmother." The Polype gives birth to a generation of Medusae which lay eggs, which develop into Polypes. The Medusa... | |
 | Gilbert Rorison - 1861 - 192 Seiten
...solitary and associated [Salpa-chains], so that a Salpa mother, to use Chamisso's familiar expression, is not like its daughter or its own mother, but resembles...its sister, its grand-daughter, and its grandmother. " (Steenstrup, Alternation, &c., Ray Society, p. 39.) Among Radiates, a rooted or plant-like polype... | |
 | John George Wood - 1863 - 830 Seiten
...becomes the parent of a solitary one. So that, as Mr. Rymer Jones happily remarks, " a Salpa mother is not like its daughter or its own mother, but resembles...its sister, its granddaughter, and its grandmother." When swimming at ease through the water, the Salpa, like many other inhabitants of the ocean, is hardly... | |
 | Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society - 1864 - 332 Seiten
...second and the successive -alternate generations, or, as it has been humerously expressed, " a mother is not like its daughter or its own mother, but resembles...sister, its grand-daughter, and its grand-mother."* Among the Zoophytes, for instance, certain species of Medusce produce the campanularia and the coryne,... | |
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The startling announcement of the poetnaturalist, " that a Salpa mother is not like its daughter or its own mother, but resembles its sister, its granddaughter and its grandmother," was combated at first, but stated to be true by Sars, Krohn and others. 
