 Coral is never, therefore, the handiwork of the manyarmed polyps; for it is no more a result 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...  Corals and Coral Islands - Page 18by James Dwight Dana - 1872 - 398 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 - Science - 1899 - 456 pages
...bee, orthe hillock of a colony of ants. " Science, while it penetrates deeply the system of > z 8 i things about us, sees everywhere, in the dim limits...polyp, where it was formed by the secreting process." In 1853 Dana wrote the following letter to Norton's Literary Gazette: LIFE OF JAMES DWIGHT DANA FROM... | |
 | James D. Dana - 1899 - 474 pages
...different organs according to their end or function, it is all one process, both in its nature arid cause, whether in the Animalcule or Man. It belongs...a polyp, in most reef-making species, is enclosed more or less completely within the polyp, where it was formed by the secreting process. It is not,... | |
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