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EVERYONE who is concerned in the teaching of elementary zoology knows the great difficulty of so controlling the movements of Paramœcium that students can distinguish the essential features of its structure. Of all the methods adopted for this purpose of which I have hitherto heard, none has ever given me such successful results as one which I tried recently in this department as an experiment, and the advantages of which combine simplicity with very great control over the animals.
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ROW, R. Simple Device for Controlling the Movements of Paramécia. Nature 96, 286 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/096286a0
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