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State, and possibly capable of living independently, 

 and of founding new colonies. 



It is only by a somewhat wild poetical licence that 

 ICozoon has been represented as a " kind of enormous 

 composite animal stretching from the shores of La- 



FlG. 4j.~S/iVe of Umesfone (maiini/ied), 

 («) Fragment of Eozooii with canals. (lA Fra<Tm„„tc ^r „ i • . 



organic. (.) Structureless calcite^tiS^.'S ^^iSS^"^:^^^ '^ 



brador to Lake Superior, and then.e northward and 

 southward to an unknown distance, and forming 

 masses 1,500 feet in depth." We may discuss by" 

 and-by the question of the composite nature of 

 masses of Eozoon, and we see in the corals evidence 

 of the great size to which composite animals of a 



