 | 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
...covered each other with feculent matter. I placed one of them in a shallow vessel, and just covered its surface and highest orifice with water. On strewing...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
...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 at a great distance, and on placing some small pieces of cprk or of dry paper over the apertures, I... | |
 | 1826 - 628 pages
...covered each other with feculent matter. . I placed one of them in a shallow vessel, and just covered 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... | |
 | Robert Bentley Todd - 1849 - 924 pages
...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 distance, and on placing some small pieces of cork or of dry paper over the apertures, he... | |
 | Anne Pratt - 1850 - 372 pages
...other with the material they ejected. I placed one of them in a shallow vessel, and just covered its surface and highest orifice with water. On strewing...currents, at the distance of ten feet from the table on which the specimens rested." And thus the wondrous operations of nature, till lately unsuspected,... | |
 | David Landsborough - 1852 - 206 pages
...covered each other with feculent matter. I placed one of them in a shallow vessel, and just covered 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,... | |
 | Robert Bentley Todd - 1852 - 836 pages
...other with feculent matter. Dr. Grunt then placed one of them in a shallow vessel, and just covered 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, he... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - 1854 - 516 pages
...other with the materials they ejected. I placed one of them in a shallow vessel, and just covered its surface and highest orifice with water. On strewing...currents, at the distance of ten feet from the table on which the specimen rested." AlcyoneHa. — This term distinguishes a sponge-genus found in masses... | |
 | 1854 - 394 pages
...covered each other with feculent matter. I placed one of them in a shallow vessel, and just covered 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 a dry paper over the apertureB, I... | |
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... together in a glass of sea-water, 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 feculent matter. 
