 | 1825 - 452 pages
...covered each other with feculent matter. I placed one of them in a shallow vessel, and just cpvered its surface and highest orifice with water. On strewing...the surface of the water the currents were visible at a great distance, and on placing some small pieces of cork or of dry paper over the apertures, I... | |
 | 1825 - 440 pages
...naked eye like two living batteries, ami soon covered each other with feculent matter. I placed one of them in a shallow vessel, and just covered its surface...the surface of the water the .currents were visible at a great distance, j j.iPUU"."'' ... „ . „ j and on placing some small pieces ot cprk or ot dry... | |
 | 1825 - 448 pages
....ejfe, like two Jiving. batteries, and soon covered each other with feculent matter. I placed on* of them, in a shallow vessel, and just covered its surface :and,, highest pnfic«,wjth water. On strewing some powdered chalk on the surface of the water the currents were visible... | |
 | 1826 - 628 pages
...on the surface of the water the currents were visible at a great distance, and on placing some small pieces of cork or of dry paper over the apertures,...feet from the table on which the specimen rested. A portion of soft bread, pressed between the fingers into a globular form, with a diameter larger than... | |
 | Robert Bentley Todd - 1849 - 924 pages
...two living batteries, and soon covered each other with feculent mutter. Dr. (irant then placed one of them in a shallow vessel, and just covered its surface and highest orifice with water. ( >n strewing some powdered chalk on the surface of the water, the currents were visible at a great... | |
 | Anne Pratt - 1850 - 372 pages
...like two living batteries, and soon covered each other with the material they ejected. I placed one of them in a shallow vessel, and just covered its surface...the distance of ten feet from the table on which the specimens rested." And thus the wondrous operations of nature, till lately unsuspected, have been continually... | |
 | David Landsborough - 1852 - 206 pages
...naked eye like two living batteries, and soon covered each other with feculent matter. I placed one of them in a shallow vessel, and just covered its surface...the surface of the water, the currents were visible at a great distance ; and on placing some small pieces of cork, or of dry paper, over the apertures,... | |
 | Robert Bentley Todd - 1852 - 836 pages
...two living batteries, and soon covered each other with feculent matter. Dr. Grunt then placed one of them in a shallow vessel, and just covered its surface...the surface of the water, the currents were visible at a great distance, and on placing some small pieces of cork or of dry paper over the apertures, he... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - 1854 - 516 pages
...two living batteries, and soon covered each other with the materials they ejected. I placed one of them in a shallow vessel, and just covered its surface...feet from the table on which the specimen rested." AlcyoneHa. — This term distinguishes a sponge-genus found in masses inhabiting stagnant waters, and... | |
 | 1854 - 394 pages
...naked eye like two living batteries, and soon covered each other with feculent matter. I placed one of them in a shallow vessel, and just covered its surface...the surface of the water, the currents were visible at a great distance ; and on placing some small pieces of cork or a dry paper over the apertureB, I... | |
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Two entire round portions of this sponge were placed together in a glass of seawater with their orifices opposite to each other at the distance of two inches ; they appeared to the naked eye like two living batteries, and soon covered each other with... 
