...idea that reefs of rocks can be due in any way to " animalcules," talk of electrical forces, the Crst and last appeal of ignorance. Others call in the fishes...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,...

...qualifying adjective mysterious, expressed or understood. Some writers, scouting the idea that reefs of rocks can be due in any way to " animalcules,"...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,...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...