A first book in organic evolution / by D. Kerfoot Shute.

Date:
1899
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Credit: A first book in organic evolution / by D. Kerfoot Shute. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ar-throp'o-da [Gr. art hr on, joint; pons, foot.] A branch of animals (invertebrates) with jointed legs, as insects, spiders, and crabs. As'ter [Gr. aster, star.] As-ter-oi'de-a [Gr. aster, star; eidos, form.] Echinoderms having radiating arms with ambulacral grooves below, embracing the true star-fishes. At'a-vism [Lat. atavus, grandfather.] Reversion; recur- rence to an ancestral type. At’e-les [Gr. ateles, imperfect.] Au'ri-cles [Lat. auricula, little ear.] A chamber of the heart which receives blood from the veins and transmits it to the ventricle. A'ves [Lat. pi. of avis, bird.] Birds, a class of vertebrata. Ba-cil'lus [Lat. bacillum, a little stick.] A genus of bacteria consisting of rod-like cells. They multiply by transverse division and by the formation of endogenous spores. Unicel- lular plants. Bac-te/ri-a [Gr. bakterion, stick.] Microscopic unicellular plants. A genus of Schizomycetes (fission-fungi). Bal-a-no-glos'sus [Gr. balanos, acorn; glossa, tongue.] Sup- posed by some biologists to belong to the Chordata. Beams [AS. beam, tree.] The main stem of a deer’s antler. Bel-em'nites [Gr. belemnon, dart.] A belemnitoid cuttlefish. Bi'o-phores [Gr. bios, life; phero, bear.] Biological units of hereditary mass. Bi'pes [Lat. bis, twice; pes, foot.] Blas'tid [Gr. blastos, sprout.] Blas-to-ge net'ic [Gr. blastos, a germ; genesis, generation.] Originating in the germ cells. Blas'tu-la [Gr. blastos, sprout.] A stage in the growth of the embryo; a hollow sphere of one layer of cells enclosing a segmentation-cavity. Brach-i-op'o-da [Lat. brachium, arm; Gr. pons, foot.] Mol- luscoid animals with bivalve shells, one of which is dorsal and the other ventral; also with brachial appendages coming from the sides of the mouth. Lamp shells. Brach'i-o-pod [Vid. Brachiopoda ] Lamp shell. Bry-oph’y-ta [Gr. bryott, moss; phyton, plant.] A division of the vegetable kingdom consisting of liverworts and mosses. Bry-o-zo'a [Gr. bryon, moss; soon, animal.] Moss animals.