Word: animalcula
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Assembled Animalcula. Dr. Charles Manning Child of the University of Chicago spent last summer at the Scripps Biological Institute? at Miramar, Calif. There he collected some tiny animals of the sponge family (corymorpha, helmet-shaped bodies) ; ground them in a mortar until they were shapeless pulp; bolted the mess through fine silk. In the strained liquid were living corymorpha cells, single or in groups of small number. After the liquid stood a while, the cells collected into small spheres. Many of the spheres?assembled from originally different animals?developed into complete & healthy corymorphae...
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