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The world: (1848)

Smith, Hamilton Lanphere, 1819-1903. [from old catalog] · Cleveland, M. C. Younglove and company · leaf 284

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the polypi are retracted or concealed, it is of a reddish or fawncolor. Fig. 2 is the coral as it appears when divested of its gelatin-ous covering. This zoophyte sometimes attains the size of fourfeet in circumference. The base of the Meandrina is firmly at-tached to the rocks with which it soon…

Astronomy · Meteorology · Geology · Paleontology

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