| Sir Charles Wyville Thomson, William Benjamin Carpenter, John Gwyn Jeffreys - 1873 - 592 páginas
...loveni, and the round soft bodies of the star-fishes hung from them like plump ripe fruit. The Paconariee were resplendent with a pale lilac phosphorescence...tangles or sticking to the ropes distinctly visible. From the number of specimens of Pavonaria brought up at one haul we had evidently passed over a forest... | |
| C. WYVILLE THOMSON - 1873 - 620 páginas
...the round soft bodies of the star-fishes hung from them like plump ripe fruit. The Pavonaria wrere resplendent with a pale lilac phosphorescence like...tangles or sticking to the ropes distinctly visible. Erom the number of specimens of Pavonaria brought up at one haul we had evidently passed over a forest... | |
| 1875 - 806 páginas
...gift. On one occasion the dredge came up tangled with the long pink stems of a kind of sea-pen, which were resplendent with a pale lilac phosphorescence...cyanogen gas ; not scintillating like the green light of the star-fish, but almost constant, sometimes flashing out at one point more brightly, and then dying... | |
| 1882 - 312 páginas
...the third cruise of HMS " Porcupine." Their capture is described thus: "The Pavonariic (Funiculina) were resplendent with a pale lilac phosphorescence...cyanogen gas ; not scintillating like the green light of Ophiacantiia, but almost constant ; sometimes flashing out at one point more brightly, and then dying... | |
| James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1879 - 496 páginas
...hundreds of polypes, to be "resplendent with a pale lilac phosphorescence like the flame of cyanogen gas, almost constant, sometimes flashing out at one point...tangles or sticking to the ropes distinctly visible." Probably the grandest display of light-emitting is by the great cylindrical-looking Pyrosoma, one of... | |
| Charles Frederick Holder - 1887 - 272 páginas
...from them like plump ripe fruit. The Pavonariœ were resplendent with a pale lilac phoshorescence, like the flame of Cyanogen gas ; not scintillating like the green light of some sea-stars,22 but almost constant, sometimes flashing out at one point more brightly, and then... | |
| Edwin J Walter - 1889 - 352 páginas
...resplendent with a pale, lilae phosphorescence, like the flame of cyanogen gas; not scintillating, but almost constant, sometimes flashing out at one...tangles or sticking to the ropes distinctly visible. From the number of specimens of Pavonarice brought up at one haul, we had evidently passed over a forest... | |
| Mordecai Cubitt Cooke - 1889 - 408 páginas
...loveni, and the round soft bodies of the star-fishes hung from them like plump ripe fruit. The Pavonariae were resplendent with a pale lilac phosphorescence,...cyanogen gas ; not scintillating, like the green light of Ophiocantha, but almost constant, sometimes flashing out at one point more brightly, and then dying... | |
| Georg Hartwig - 1892 - 588 páginas
...Ophiacantha shines like a star of the most vivid uranium green, the sea-pen (Pavanaria quadrangularis) is resplendent with a pale lilac phosphorescence like...constant, sometimes flashing out at one point more vividly, and then dying gradually into comparative dimness, but still sufficiently bright to make every... | |
| Edward W. Badger, William Hillhouse - 1882 - 636 páginas
...phosphorescence like the flame of cyanogen gas; not scintillating like the green light of Ophiacaiitha, but almost constant ; sometimes flashing out at one...tangles or sticking to the ropes distinctly visible. From the number of specimens of Pavonaría (Funiculina) brought up at one haul we had evidently passed... | |
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