"The apparent function of the Diatomacae in the economy nature, viz. to vivify, as it were, the immensity of the ocean, as well as all fresh and brackish waters, decomposing, as they do, carbonic acid under the influence of light, and consequently giving off oxygen, is sufficient to show that organisms of such excessive minuteness must be endowed with an extraordinary reproductive capacity in order to supply, by their number, the vast scope of the office they are destined to fulfil."
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On the Multiplication and Reproduction of the Diatomaceae (1890)
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Francesco Castracane degli Antelminelli
Francesco Castracane degli Antelminelli (19 July 1817 – 27 March 1899) was an Italian naturalist.
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