 | Frances Osborne - 1851 - 332 pages
...wash over it, the coral worms protrude themselves from holes that were before invisibla These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and, in...appears to be alive and in motion. The most common worm is in the form of a star, with arms from four to six inches long, which are moved about with a... | |
 | A. R. Phippen - Education - 1854 - 472 pages
...worms protrude themselves from holes on the surface which were before quite invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in...alive and in motion. "The most common of the worms at Loo-Choo (an island in the Pacific, east of China) was in the form of a star, with arms from four... | |
 | Fanny Osborne - Geography - 1852 - 394 pages
...wash over it, the coral worms protrude themselves from holes that were before invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and, in...appears to be alive and in motion. The most common worm is in the form of a star, with arms from four to six inches long, which are moved about with a... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - Microscope and microscopy - 1854 - 516 pages
...wash over it, the polypes protrude themselves from holes which were before invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in...appears to be alive and in motion. The most common form is that of a star, with arms, or tentacula, which are moved about with a rapid motion in all directions,... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - 1856 - 530 pages
...wash over it, the polyps protrude themselves from holes which were before invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in...appears to be alive and in motion. The most common form is that of a star, with arms, or tentacles, which are moved about with a rapid motion in all directions,... | |
 | George William Fitch - History - 1856 - 276 pages
...worms protrude themselves from holes on the surface which were before quite invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes', and in...surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. C2. " The most common of the worms at Loo-Choo (an island in the Pacific cast of China), was in the... | |
 | George William Fitch - History - 1856 - 274 pages
...worms protrude themselves from holes on the surface which were before quite invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes', and in...surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. 62. " The most common of the worms at Loo-Choo (an island in the Pacific east of China), was in the... | |
 | George William Fitch - History - 1856 - 280 pages
...surface which were before quite invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes1, and in such prodigious numbers, that in a short time...surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. 62. " The most common of the worms at Loo-Choo (on Island in the Pacific east of China), was in the... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - 1858 - 644 pages
...wash over it, the polypes protrude themselves from holes which were before invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in...appears to be alive and in motion. The most common form is that of a star, with arms or tentacles, which are moved about with a rapid motion in all directions,... | |
 | William Chambers - 1859 - 234 pages
...wash over it, the polypi protrude themselves from holes which were before invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in...appears to be alive and in motion. The most common form is that of a star, with arms or tentacula, which are moved about with a rapid motion in all directions,... | |
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... invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that, in a short time, the whole surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common worm is in the form of... 
