 Yet this is exactly what these jellyspecks do on a most minute scale; the tests they construct when highly magnified, bearing comparison with the most skilful masonry of man. From the same sandy bottom one species picks up the coarser quartz grains, cements...  The Abdominal Brain - Page 23by Leila G. Bedell - 1885 - 45 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1874 - 774 pages
...skilful masonry of Man. From the same sandy bottom, one species picks up the coarser quartz-grains, cements them together with phosphate of iron secreted from its own substance, and thus constructs a flask-shaped "test " having a short neck and a single large orifice. Another picks up the finest grains,... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter, Henry James Slack - 1875 - 942 pages
...skilful masonry of Man. From tlie game sandy bottom, one species picks up the coarser quartz-grains, cements them together with phosphate of iron secreted from its own substance, and thus constructs a flask-shaped ' test' having a short neck and a single large orifice. Another picks up the finer grains,... | |
 | 1878 - 802 pages
...skilful masonry of man. From the same sandy bottom one species picks up the coarser quartz grainsj cements them together with phosphate of iron secreted from its own substance " [should not this rather be (says Mr. Butler), " which it has contrived in some way or other to manufacture... | |
 | Joseph John Murphy - 1879 - 636 pages
...magnified, bearing comparison with the most skilful masonry of man. From the same sandy bottom one species picks up the coarser quartz grains, cements them together...secreted from its own substance, and thus constructs a flask-shaped test having a short neck and a single large orifice. Another picks up the finest grains,... | |
 | Joseph John Murphy - 1879 - 650 pages
...magnified, bearing comparison with the most skilful masonry of man. From the same sandy bottom one species picks up the coarser quartz grains, cements them together...secreted from its own substance, and thus constructs a flask-shaped test having a short neck and a single large orifice. Another picks up the finest grains,... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1883 - 816 pages
...skilful masonry of Man. From the same sandy bottom, one species picks up the coarser quartz-grains, cements them together with phosphate of iron secreted from its own substance, and thus constructs a flask-shaped " test " having a short neck and a single large orifice. Another picks up the finest grains,... | |
 | Arthur John Bell - 1890 - 498 pages
...geometrical symmetry, and of the most artificial construction. . . . From the same sandy bottom, one species picks up the coarser quartz grains, cements them together with phosphate of iron — which must be secreted from their own substance —and thus constructs a flask-shaped "test" having... | |
 | Francis Asbury Shoup - 1891 - 380 pages
...skilful masonry of man. From the same sandy bottom, one species picks up the coarser quartz-grains, cements them together with phosphate of iron secreted from its own substance, and thus constructs a flask-shaped ' test ' having a short neck and a single large orifice. Another picks up the finest grains... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1892 - 398 pages
...symmetry of form and of the most artificial construction. . . . From the same sandy bottom one species picks up the coarser quartz grains, cements them together with phosphate of iron (?) which must be secreted from their own substance, and thus constructs a flaskshaped ' test ' having... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1894 - 824 pages
...skilful masonry of Man. From the tame tandy bottom, one species picks up the coarser quartz-grains, cements them together with phosphate of iron secreted from its own substance, and thus constructs a flask-shaped " test " having a short neck and a single large orifice. Another picks up the finest grains,... | |
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