 ... of labor than bone-making in ourselves. And again, it is not a collection of cells into which the coral animals may withdraw for concealment, any more than the skeleton of a dog is its house or cell : for every part of the coral of a polyp in most...  Corals and Coral Islands - Page 18by James Dwight Dana - 1890 - 440 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Science - 1851 - 510 pages
...an agglutination of grains made by the handywork of the manyarmed polyps: for it is no more an act of labor than bone-making in ourselves. And again,...is its house or cell : for every part of the coral of a polyp in most reef-making species is enclosed within the polyp, where it was formed by the secreting... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1852 - 446 pages
...an agglutination of grains made by the handiwork of the manyarmed polyps ; for it is no more an act of labor than bone-making in ourselves. And, again,...is its house or cell ; for every part of the coral of a polyp in most reef-making species is enclosed within the polyp, where it was formed by the secreting... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1852 - 460 pages
...an agglutination of grains made by the handiwork of the manyarmed polyps ; for it is no more an act of labor than bone-making in ourselves. And, again,...is its house or cell ; for every part of the coral of a polyp in most reef-making species is enclosed within the polyp, where it was formed by the secreting... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1852 - 450 pages
...an agglutination of grains made by the handiwork of the manyarmed polyps ; for it is no more an act of labor than bone-making in ourselves. And, again,...is its house or cell ; for every part of the coral of a polyp in most reef-making species is enclosed within the polyp, where it was formed by the secreting... | |
 | Science - 1852 - 422 pages
...agglutination of grains made by the handiwork of the many armed polyps ; for it is no more an act of labour than bone-making in ourselves. And, again, it is not...is its house or cell ; for every part of the coral of a polyp in most reef-making species is enclosed within the polyp where it was formed by the secreting... | |
 | Science - 1852 - 386 pages
...agglutination of grains made by the handiwork of the many armed polyps ; for it is no more an act of labour than bone-making in ourselves. And, again, it is not...is its house or cell ; for every part of the coral of a polyp in most reef-making species is enclosed within the polyp where it was formed by the secreting... | |
 | James Dwight Dana - Coral reefs and islands - 1853 - 152 pages
...an agglutination of grains made by the handy work of the manyarmed polyps : for it is no more an act of labor than bone-making in ourselves. And again,...is its house or cell : for every part of the coral of a polyp in most reef-making species is enclosed within the polyp, where it was formed by the secreting... | |
 | Mordecai Cubitt Cooke - Animals - 1889 - 408 pages
...is never, therefore, the handiwork of the many-armed polyps ; for it is no more the result of labour than bonemaking in ourselves. And again, it is not...is its house or cell; for every part of the coral of a polyp, in most reef-making species, is enclosed within the polyp, where it was formed by the secreting... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman - United States Exploring Expedition - 1899 - 476 pages
...stone-makers; for in their simplicity of structure they may be almost all stone and still carry on the processes of nutrition and growth. Throughout...of a polyp, in most reefmaking species, is enclosed within the polyp, where it was formed by the secreting process." In 1853 Dana wrote the following letter... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman - Science - 1899 - 450 pages
...Throughout geological time they were the agents appointed to produce the material of limestones, and alscTTo make even the flint and many of the siliceous deposits...a dog is its house or cell; for every part of the coral—or corallum, as it is now called in science—of a polyp, in most reefmaking species, is enclosed... | |
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