Sea-stars, jelly-fishes, sea-anemones, and coralsSheldon, 1868 - Animal behavior |
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alive animals aquarium arms Atlantic Ocean Basket-Fish body bottom branches cilia Cladocera clusters of coral colors Comb-Bearers coral polyps coral reefs coral-grove corals and coral Coryne covered crabs crinoid Crustaceans Ctenophora curious delicate Disk Jelly-Fishes echinoderms eggs eyes Feather-Star fishes fixed flint float flowers form coral grow hard holes HOLOTHURIANS Hydra hydroid inch insects island jelly kind of coral kinds of jelly-fishes kinds of polyps larger lassos little animals little book live Luidia Madrepores minute mollusks mouth move Nahant name which means Nummulites PICTURES AND STORIES pieces plates Pleurobrachia pool Porites Pyramid Radiates Red Coral Renilla Rhizopods rocks rows of fringes Sea-Anemones sea-animals Sea-Nettles Sea-Pens sea-snails Sea-Urchin sea-water sea-weeds seen Serpent-Stars shell shrimps side slender soft sometimes soon spines sponges Star-Corals star-fishes stem Strobila suckers surface swim tell tentacles told Trepangs tubes tubular feet tubular organs Urchin Vorticellas warm waves wonderful
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Page 125 - ... forms, Is sporting amid those bowers of stone, And is safe when the wrathful spirit of storms Has made the top of the wave his own; And when the ship from his fury flies. Where the myriad voices of ocean roar, When the wind-god frowns in the murky skies, And demons are waiting the wreck on shore; Then far below in the peaceful sea, The purple mullet and gold-fish rove, Where the waters murmur tranquilly. Through the bending twigs of the coral grove.
Page 124 - Deep in the wave is a Coral Grove, Where the purple mullet and gold-fish rove, Where the sea-flower spreads its leaves of blue, That never are wet with falling dew, But in bright and changeful beauty shine, Far down in the green and glassy brine.
Page 125 - From coral rocks the sea plants lift Their boughs, where the tides and billows flow ; The water is calm and still below, For the winds and waves are absent there, And the sands are bright as the stars that glow In the motionless fields of upper air : There, with its waving blade of green, The sea flag streams through the silent water, And the crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush, like a banner bathed in slaughter...
Page 125 - There with its waving blade of green, The sea-flag streams through the silent water, And the crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush like a banner bathed in slaughter ; There with a light and easy motion, The fan-coral sweeps through the clear deep sea ; And the yellow and scarlet tufts of ocean Are bending like corn on the upland lea ; And life, in rare and beautiful forms, Is sponing amid those bowers of stone, And is safe, when the wrathful spirit of storms, Has made the top of the wave his...
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Page 95 - ... sends a message to them, because the message can go no further than where the nerves are divided, just as when a telegraph wire is broken, the electricity can go only to the point where it is broken. 9. The nerves are white cords. Each nerve is made up of a great number of tubes. These tubes are so small that they can be seen only by the aid of a very powerful microscope. Each tube is altogether by itself. It is never seen to communicate with any of the other tubes that are bound up with it in...
Page 127 - ... lands along the coastal margin of the Point Hope peninsula, which separate Marryat Inlet from the sea, are deposits of the latter type, and consist of two sand and gravel spits which extend seaward from the north and south sides of this delta and converge and meet about 15 miles from the mainland. They vary in width from a few hundred feet to a mile, rise from 10 to 15 feet above sea level, and, except in time of unusually severe storms, are entirely beyond the reach of the waves. A native graveyard...
Page 148 - ... Even thine altars, 0 Jehovah of Hosts My King and my God. This is an interesting verse as showing that the least things of HH creation will then have found an abiding shelter under redemption, which the altar represents. At present it is far otherwise. Creation groans in the bondage of- corruption. Neither the beasts of the field, nor the birds of the air, nor the fishes of the deep are at rest. They are pursued by fear or by hunger, by pain or by death. The sparrow and the swallow quail before...
Page 141 - The pus germs are so small that they cannot be seen with the naked eye, but they are born by the hundreds every minute.
Page 139 - Near the three pyramids are six smaller ones, three of them are near the east side of the great pyramid, and three on the south side of the third pyramid.