This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ... retina is a membrane into which the optic nerve penetrates, and in which its terminal filaments are distributed. The outermost is an extremely delicate membrane, followed by a layer of nerve cells, from which the terminal filaments issue, passing through the several granular strata, on which the innermost stratum ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ... retina is a membrane into which the optic nerve penetrates, and in which its terminal filaments are distributed. The outermost is an extremely delicate membrane, followed by a layer of nerve cells, from which the terminal filaments issue, passing through the several granular strata, on which the innermost stratum rests. This stratum is composed of cylindrical rods, vertically arranged, between which twin fusiform corpuscles are intercalated. This last layer is thickly covered by a dark pigment." whole theory and practice of fly-fishing would be subverted. "It so happens that since that time I have had little or no Mayfly fishing, having worked chiefly on the upper Itchen, above where the Mayfly comes. But during the present season I have been fishing in Hertfordshire, and have enjoyed an excellent opportunity of making the experiment suggested above, with results sufficiently remarkable to justify their being recorded in your columns. I had some Mayflies dressed with scarlet and others with blue in various shades on bodies, wings, and hackles. There was some difficulty in getting the dressers to understand that it was important that the shade of these flies should not be uniform; that there should be dark patches at the head and shoulders, and dark markings on the wings. In short, that a red Mayfly, when photographed, should appear exactly like a grey one. At last, however, a satisfactory result was obtained. "On June 3, after the Mayfly had been on for about a fortnight, I went to fish the Gade. Meeting the keeper by appointment about noon, I found the Mayfly abundant, and the trout, which are exceedingly numerous, taking them freely. I had no desire that the keeper should suspect me at once of being a lunatic, so I mounted a fly of the or...
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