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Excerpt from Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, 1887, Vol. 2: Containing Its Transactions and Proceedings, and a Summary of Current Researches Relating to Zoology and Botany (Principally Invertebrata and Cryptogamia), Microscopy, &C
To some it may be a matter of surprise, to others a question of utility, to have gone back amongst the dead of remote ages in search of a subject for microscopical examination, whilst on every side we are surrounded by living organisms whose structure is unknown. Yet let me venture to hope the result which I now have the honour to bring to the notice of the Fellows may justify the selection. Whatever may be the opinion entertained of this record of the examination, it must be admitted there is one point upon which the dead doth not speak, nor can the living offer more than silence, and that is whether a thousand or two thousand or more cycles have slipped away with the years beyond the ?ood since this muscle-structure possessed life. The time, however, has certainly been beyond a period in which we could fairly hope for the preservation and identification of any part of the minute organic tissues of either the muscular, vascular, or nervous systems.
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