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its limestone columns and helped to build islands and conti- 

 nents untold ages — millions upon millions of years — ^before 

 any flower bloomed, or any bee sipped the precious nectar. 

 In some specimens of this honey-stone coral (Fig. 133), there 



Pig. 133. 



are to be seen banks of cells, much resembling the paper cells 

 of some of our wasps. This might be called wasp-stone 

 coralj except that both styles were wrought by the self-same 

 animals. 



