Smith, Hamilton Lanphere, 1819-1903. [from old catalog] · Cleveland, M. C. Younglove and company · leaf 285
rt vege-tates while the lower portion is entering into a mineral mass, inwhich the traces of organization remain, when life has entirelyceased. In corals, in like manner, the more durable mate-rials of the generation that has passed away, serve as the founda-*tion on which living animals are… … contain a bright green polypus. The Astrea, is another verycommon and extensive species of coral, fig. 1, represents the *Mt*
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