MICROSCOPIST • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Microscopist

... from the multitude of other things which go by the same designation, I must give it a name of its own. I think (though, for reasons which need not be stated at present, I am not quite sure) that it is identical with the species Monas lens as defined by the eminent French microscopist Dujardin, though his magnifying power was probably insufficient to enable him to see that it is curiously like a much larger form of monad which he has named Heteromita. I shall, therefore, call it not Monas, but ...

— Discourses - Biological and Geological Essays • Thomas H. Huxley

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