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The aggregate form of Salpa always gives rise to the solitary salps, and the solitary salps always give rise to chains of the aggregate salps.
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Huxley made an elaborate investigation of the structure of Salpa.
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Then as to Salpa, whose mode of generation has always been so great a bone of contention, I have a long series of observations and drawings which I have verified over and over again, and which, if correct, must give rise to quite a new view of the matter.
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900
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The aggregate form of Salpa always gives rise to the solitary salps, and the solitary salps always give rise to chains of the aggregate salps.
Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work Mitchell, P Chalmers 1900
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Huxley made an elaborate investigation of the structure of Salpa.
Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work Mitchell, P Chalmers 1900
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"In your second paper 'On the Anatomy of Salpa and Pyrosoma,' the phenomena, etc., have received the most ingenious and elaborate elucidation, and have given rise to a process of reasoning, the results of which can scarcely yet be anticipated, but must bear in a very important degree upon some of the most abstruse points of what may be called transcendental physiology."
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900
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In a letter to him Huxley described the investigations which he desired to continue as being chiefly those on “the anatomy of certain Gasteropod and Pteropod Mollusca, of Firola and Atlantis, of Salpa and Pyrosoma, of two new Ascidians, namely, Appendicularia and Doliolum, of Sagitta and certain Annelids, of the auditory and circulatory organs of certain transparent Crustacea, and of the Medusae and Polyps.”
Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work Mitchell, P Chalmers 1900
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"Observations upon the Anatomy and Physiology of Salpa and Pyrosoma,"
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896
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This is in fact a true virgin reproduction, and directly comparable to the alternation of generations observed in the jelly fishes, in Salpa, and certain intestinal worms.
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872
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Then as to Salpa, whose mode of generation has always been so great a bone of contention, I have
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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