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THE MORPHOLOGY OF THE COMMON CRAYFISfl. 



of the Doay consists of one or more of the following eight 

 histological groups : — 



1. Blood corpuscles ; 2. Epithelium ; 3. Connective 

 tissue; 4. Muscle ; 5. Nerve; 6. Ova; 7. Spermatozoa; 

 8. Cuticle. 



1. A drop of freshly-drawn blood of the crayfish con- 

 tains multitudes of small particles, the hlood coiyuscles, 



Fig. 49. — Astac^is Jlnviatilis.— The corpuscles of tlie blood, Lig-lily 

 mag-nified. 1 — 8, show the changes undergone by a single cor- 

 puscle during a quarter of an hour ; n, the nucleus ; 9 and 10 

 are corpuscles killed by magenta, and having the nucleus deeply 

 stained by the colouring matter. 



which rarety exceed l-700th, and usually are about 

 1- 1000th, of an inch in diameter (fig. 49). They 

 are sometimes pale and delicate, but generally more or 

 less dark, from containing a number of minute strongly S 

 refracting granules, and they are ordinarily exceedingly 

 irregular in form. If one of them is watched continu- 



