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 - Página 18por James Dwight Dana - 1872 - 398 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1851 - 510 páginas
...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... | |
| 1852 - 446 páginas
...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... | |
| 1852 - 460 páginas
...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... | |
| 1852 - 450 páginas
...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... | |
| 1852 - 422 páginas
...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... | |
| 1852 - 386 páginas
...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 - 1853 - 152 páginas
...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 - 1889 - 408 páginas
...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 - 1899 - 456 páginas
...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 páginas
...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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