... 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 47by James Dwight Dana - 1853 - 143 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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