This was done; the collodion pellicles measuring about ten centimeters (four inches) square and containing about three thousand average messages.
Eighteen of these pellicles weighed less than one gramme (fifteen grains) and were easily carried by a single pigeon.
All of us have seen wine when exposed to air gradually sour, and become converted into vinegar, and we know that in this case the surface of the liquid is covered with white pellicles called "mother of vinegar.
These pellicles are made up of myriads of globules of Mycoderma aceti.
Bacterium roseopersicina forms, in pools, rosy or red pellicles that cover vegetable debris and disengage gases of an offensive odor.
Female insects constructing for themselves shields composed partly of secretion, partly of the pellicles discarded from earlier stages; abdomen not cleft; legs lost at full growth.
Female puparium varying in colour; circular in outline, usually flat, sometimes rather convex; pellicles usually in the centre.
Female puparium more or less circular, pellicles near the centre; male puparium elongated, carinated, pellicle at one end.
Female puparium circular, pelliclesusually in the centre; male puparium slightly elongated, not carinated, pellicle at one end.
Female puparium elongated, pellicles at one end; male puparium narrower, pellicle at one end.
Female puparium more or less, but never quite, circular; sometimes flat, but more usually convex; pellicles more or less marginal.
Puparia elongated, generally more or less mussel-shaped or pyriform, usually convex, more or less curved; pelliclesat one end.
An examination of the second pellicles of the two species will, of course, at once distinguish them.
Female puparium elongated, pellicles at one end; male puparium nearly similar but smaller and narrower, not carinated, pellicle at one end.
The pellicles of lime, the surface of stagnant water, especially if impregnated with iron, and again pellicles of oil on water, especially of varnish on aqua fortis.
Very delicate pellicles may be formed in various ways: on these films we discover a very lively play of colours, either in the usual order, or more confusedly passing through each other.
Very fine pellicles and lamellæ, produced by the decomposition of minerals and metals.
At the same time, the centre of the pellicles becomes opaque, and of the colour of the yolk of an egg; they enlarge as if by the prolongation of divergent fibres.
The pelliclesdeposited by the milk of hevea, in contact with the atmospheric oxygen, become brown on exposure to the sun.
This gas restored from the red pellicles was much better fitted than the air of the atmosphere for combustion and respiration.
Then it was in the pellicles that he must seek for the air which had disappeared.
So the red pellicles were taken up and heated in a little retort, furnished with a tube which could gather the gas; under the action of heat the pellicles were decomposed.
The mercury became covered with red pellicles, whose number increased towards the seventh and eighth days; at the end of the twelfth day, as the pellicles did not increase, Lavoisier discontinued the heat.
The candle had gone out when all the oxygen in the globe had been absorbed; the red pellicles had ceased to form when they found no more oxygen.
I should wish also that such persons were carefully shown the eleven pellicles which, like so many small valves, open and shut the four orifices that are in these two cavities, viz.
The corolla-petals are of necessity arrested in plants such as these, where no true leaf is as yet developed; frequently two only are left persistent as pellicles or lodiculæ.
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