The sponges are first soaked in hydrochloric acid to remove the lime, they are then washed in water, and afterwards placed for ten minutes in a 2 per cent.
All artificial methods of feeding them by bladders or sponges of blood have been found to fail.
As soon as the sponges appear white they are well washed out in water to remove the acid.
The sponges are said to become perfectly disinfected and deodorised, whilst the tissue is not affected by the treatment.
Men-servants and pages were bustling about to wait upon them, some mixing wine with water in the mixing-bowls, some cleaning down the tables with wet sponges and laying them out again, and some cutting up great quantities of meat.
When they had done this, they cleaned all the tables and seats with sponges and water, while Telemachus and the two others shovelled up the blood and dirt from the ground, and the women carried it all away and put it out of doors.
Irrigators were being emptied, sponges recounted and checked off on written lists.
You remember the packets of gauze sponges we made and used in the operating-room?
He glanced over it, noting accuratelysponges prepared, used, turned in.
From that time on she handled the small gauze sponges almost reverently.
It is just the same with lint and bandages, sponges and splints, all which the Commission supplies freely.
Sea urchins were also abundant, and sponges contributed their spicules to form nodules of flint.
Protozoans and sponges are exceedingly abundant, and all contribute to the making of Mesozoic strata.
Boring mollusks, worms, and sponges perforate and honeycomb this framework even while its surface is covered with myriads of living polyps.
A preacher may be full of fire, but he can not set sponges burning.
To go where a congregation are mostly sponges is to find a few having all to do and to find a dull, insipid meeting.
Meantime East is freshening up Tom with the sponges for next round, and has set two other boys to rub his hands.
East can't help shouting challenges to two or three of the other side, though he never leaves Tom for a moment, and plies the sponges as fast as ever.
In some sponges it also forms a basal membrane in contact with the object to which the sponge is attached, and in some such cases the spongin of the radiating fibres is in direct continuity with that of the basal membrane.
In the lake, the waters of which are free from mud, the sponges were growing on the lower surface of stones near the edge.
Most of them contain few solid objects to which sedentary organisms can fix themselves, and such ponds are of course poor in sponges and polyzoa.
Evidence, however, is rather scanty as regards the occurrence of freshwater sponges in S.
Of the fauna of the swamps extremely little is known, but so far as the sponges and polyzoa of the tanks are concerned the work undertaken by Carter was probably exhaustive.
I know of no animal that devours sponges bodily, so long as they are uninjured.
It is very interesting, therefore, to see that the condition of spongestaken in S.
Tali-Fu in Yunnan; also as regards the species of Spongilla and Ephydatia found in Lake Baikal, many of the sponges of which are said never to produce gemmules.
A fourth cause for the coloration of freshwater sponges may be noted briefly.
A curious phenomenon has been noticed in this species, but only in the case of sponges living in an aquarium, viz.
My embryological and physiological studies on sponges led me to the conclusion that the mesoderm must function in the hypothetically primitive animals as a mass of digestive cells, in all points similar to those of the endoderm.
As he himself has told us, he was led to make these investigations by his precedent researches on the development of sponges and other invertebrates.
Defn: An order of sponges having a skeleton composed of hornlike fibers.
Defn: A division of sponges including those which have independent siliceous spicules.
Defn: Any one of numerous species of siliceous fossil sponges belonging to Ventriculites and allied genera, characteristic of the Cretaceous period.
Grass sponge, any one of several varieties of coarse commercial sponges having the surface irregularly tufted, as Spongia graminea, and S.
In some fresh-water sponges they serve to preserve the species during the dry season.
Sponges produce eggs and spermatozoa, and the egg when fertilized undergoes segmentation to form a ciliated embryo.
To gain by mean arts, by intrusion, or hanging on; as, an idlersponges on his neighbor.
Defn: Any small calcareous or siliceous body found in the tissues of various invertebrate animals, especially in sponges and in most Alcyonaria.
The common sponges contain larger and smaller cavities and canals, and numerous small ampullæ which which are lined with ciliated cells capable of taking in solid food.
Note: Spicules vary exceedingly in size and shape, and some of those found in siliceous sponges are very complex in structure and elegant in form.
The most valuable sponges are found in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, and on the coasts of Florida and the West Indies.
The fly is an intruder, and a common smell-feast, that sponges upon other people's trenchers.
These sponges have a fine and compact texture, and contain minute siliceous spicules.
Defn: An order of sponges having a fibrous skeleton, including the commercial sponges.
Some waded out from the rocks, having a long pole with a scythe-like knife at the end of it, with which the spongeswere cut off from the rocks.
The sponges were then cut off with the knife I have just described.
The dangers of gathering sponges are fully described; the chums meet with sharks and alligators; and they are cast away on a desert island.
This story of the boy chums hunting forsponges is filled with many adventures.
The sponges of the Mediterranean swam as soon as they were born, when they were like pin-heads, with vibratory movements.
Sponges were growing in the tranquil waters in the shadow of the great rocks of Mallorca and the Isles of Greece.
And yet with all the alleged vicissitudes of the continents during the millions of years since the Cretaceous age, there is so far as I am aware not a trace of either the chalk or the sponges in any of the "subsequent" rocks.
I am greatly indebted to Mr. Bowerbank for his great kindness, in looking over his immense collection of sponges from all parts of the world, and sending to me all the specimens of Acasta he could find imbedded in them.
Gorgoniae instead of to sponges; yet we shall see that Acasta purpurata lives imbedded in the bark of Isis, so that even the habit of being imbedded in sponges fails.
Distribution mundane; imbedded in spongesand the sponge-like bark of Isis.
These sponges can be exposed to the air current or withdrawn at will, yielding a single perfume or a blending of as many kinds as one may wish.
Along the ventilating tubes, in a series of small compartments, are sponges saturated with different kinds of perfume.
During the Cambrian period there were corallike sponges and possibly simple corals, but from the early Ordovician to the present true corals have been common, especially in the clearer, warmer seas.
Sponges have been more or less common from early Paleozoic time to the present, and they have undergone relatively little change.
Of these the sponges are porous, and the other types (including corals) have tentacles around their mouths.
The precipitation of silica and replacement of the chalk occurs irregularly along the zone of precipitation, forming great irregular masses of flint, which enclose the sponges and other marine organisms that lay in the chalk strata.
We have seen that sponges were very plentiful in that ancient sea.
From this the skeletons of radiolaria and diatoms and the spicules of sponges are formed.
In the agate the forms of fossil sponges can often be beautifully seen.
Sponges usually live in clear water of some depth; so all shows that the sea was becoming deeper when these strata were being formed.
Large sponges require less yeast (in proportion), and raise quicker than small sponges, because they are not as easily chilled as small sponges are.
Yeast added to the sour dough secures a stronger and shorter fermentation, and only one sponge is used in the process, while, with sour dough only, two successive spongesare employed.
Killing the little baby sponges with their iron shoes, an' stripping the bottom clean as a Conch's floor.
They had not come upon a rich bed of sponges as he had suspected but had discovered a treasure such as men for ages have fought, struggled, and died to attain.
Here the sponges grew in abundance and he at once began to fill his basket, an example which Walter immediately followed.
I reckon, thar's all of two hundred dollars' worth of spongesin that heap.
In a short time thereafter, the usual signal was given and two baskets of sponges were hoisted up.
We have got as many sponges this afternoon as we have during any entire day.
Apparently, the divers were still suffering from their faintness, for it was a long time after they descended before the first basket load of sponges appeared, and it was nearly an hour before the second one was hoisted aboard.
She had evidently lain long in her bed amongst the coral and sponges for long tendrils of sea moss streamed out from her barnacle-covered sides.
AFTER the crew had eaten their supper and rested a bit, the captain had them transfer the sponges from the diving boat to the deck of the schooner.
In one corner, a man worked over a big screw-press, pressing the severed fragments of sponges into huge compact bales.
We haven't got the money and we have not gathered up enough sponges yet to make up so large an amount.
By sheer accident, they had chanced upon a spot rich in sponges and the lads watched with satisfaction the steady reappearance of the lowered basket.
We might have known if we had stopped to think, that sponges have to be cleaned and cured before they look like those we saw on shore.
Sponges can be produced from cuttings at a cost much less than that of taking them from the natural beds.
I peered into a garden of white and vari-colored flowers of stone, of fans and vases and grotesque shapes, huge sponges and waving bushes and stunted trees.
The spongeswere oddities hard to recognize as the tender toilet article.
The sea was studded with coral growth, and sponges by the thousand, and we sat on these soft cushions under the surface, and watched the little fishes' antics, and chatted.
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