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" ... talk of electrical forces, the first and last appeal of ignorance. Others call in the fishes of the seas, suggesting that they are the masons, and work with their teeth in the accumulation of the calcareous material. Very many of those who discourse... "
On Coral Reefs and Islands - Page 47
by James Dwight Dana - 1853 - 143 pages
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The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in ..., Volume 3

Industrial arts - 1852 - 446 pages
...they are the masons, and work with their teeth in the accumulation of the calcareous material. Very many of those who discourse quite learnedly on zoophytes...the bee, or. the hillock of a colony of ants." It is not more surprising, nor a matter of more difficult comprehension, that the polyp should form coral,...
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The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in ..., Volume 3

Industrial arts - 1852 - 450 pages
...they are the masons, and work with their teeth in the accumulation of the calcareous material. Very many of those who discourse quite learnedly on zoophytes...the bee, or the hillock of a colony of ants. It is not more surprising, nor a matter of more difficult comprehension, that the polyp should form coral,...
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The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in ..., Volume 3

Industrial arts - 1852 - 460 pages
...zoophytes and reefs, imagine that the polyps are mechanical workers, heaping up these piles of rook by their united labors ; and science still retains...or the hillock of a colony of ants. . • , It is not more surprising, nor a matter of more difficult comprehension, that the polyp should form coral,...
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Corals and Coral Islands

James Dwight Dana - Coral reefs and islands - 1872 - 430 pages
...and science is hardly yet rid of such terms as polypary, polypidom, which imply that each coral is the constructed hive or house of a swarm of polyps,...honey-comb of the bee, or the hillock of a colony of ants. Science, while it penetrates deeply the system of things about us, sees everywhere, in the dim limits...
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Quarterly Journal of Science: 1875, Volume 12

Science - 1875 - 598 pages
...build up islands from out of the profoundest depths of ocean. Each branch of coral is supposed to be " the constructed hive or house of a swarm of polyps, like the comb of the bee or the hillock of a colony of plants." The pores are described as cells into which...
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The Journal of Science, and Annals of Astronomy, Biology, Geology ..., Volume 12

James Samuelson, William Crookes - Science - 1875 - 594 pages
...build up islands from out of the profoundest depths of ocean. Each branch of coral is supposed to be " the constructed hive or house of a swarm of polyps, like the comb of the bee or the hillock of a colony of plants." The pores are described as cells into which...
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Toilers in the Sea

Mordecai Cubitt Cooke - Animals - 1889 - 408 pages
...rock by their united labours; and science is hardly yet rid of terms which imply that each coral is the constructed hive or house of a swarm of polyps,...honeycomb of the bee, or the hillock of a colony of ants." Although we feel a little sympathy with him in his indignation, it is doubtful whether he has not accepted...
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Corals and coral islands

James D. Dana - 1899 - 474 pages
...and science is hardly yet rid of such terms as polypary, polypidom, which imply that each coral is the constructed hive or house of a swarm of polyps,...honey-comb of the bee, or the hillock of a colony of ants. about us, sees everywhere, in the dim limits of vision, the word mystery. Surely there is no reason...
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The Life of James Dwight Dana: Scientific Explorer, Mineralogist, Geologist ...

Daniel Coit Gilman - Science - 1899 - 456 pages
...and science is hardly yet rid of such terms as polypary, polypidom, which imply that each coral is the constructed hive or house of a swarm of polyps, like the honeycomb of the bee, orthe hillock of a colony of ants. " Science, while it penetrates deeply the system of > z 8 i things...
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Journal of the Franklin Institute

Electronic journals - 1875 - 632 pages
...polypary and polypidon sufficiently expresses the popular notion that each coral was the house or hive of a swarm of polyps, like the honeycomb of the bee, or the *From the Saturday Review, London, August 14th, 1875. ^Corals and Coral Islands. By James D. Dana,...
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