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Excerpt from Zoophytes: With Special Reference to the Buchan Coast This treatment of Peysonnel was probably due to the fact that, some time before this, Count Marsigli, an Italian, had written on the subject, and, though he had described the animals he had seen in the corals, he had represented them as the flowers of the corals. A wordy warfare was carried on for a long time; but, in 1741, the tide fairly turned in favour of Pcysonncl's theory, chiefly owing to the research work done by Trembley and Bernard de Jussieu. In 1752, Peysonnel sent a treatise on coral and other marine productions, the result of his own observations for thirty years, to the Royal Society of London. Dr Parsons, a naturalist of some reputation and of great influence in the Royal Society, undertook to refute the statements made.by Peysonnel, and for a time seems to have carried all before him. Parsons considered the animals in the corals as mere accidental settlers, totally inadequate to carry out the great works ascribed to them. About the same time Henry Baker discharged his last arrow in defence of the mineral theory. In using the microscope he had doubtless observed the beautiful and regular crystallizations which salts, earths, and metals assume, and he stoutly argued that the seeming sea plants were nothing more than crystallizations. But all the members of the Royal Society were not satisfied. John Ellis, a London merchant, from seeing the polypes in some of our British zoophytes caught a convincing glimpse of the true state of the matter, and prosecuted the study with such ardent zeal that in 1755 he published a work entitled : "An Essay towards a Natural History of Corallines and other Marine productions of the same kind commonly found on the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland." This was the standard English text-book till about 1838. Though the doctrine taught by Ellis was the same that had been maintained by Peysonnel, Trembley, and latterly by Reaumur, he so fully illustrated that matter that he may be said to have established its truth, effecting a revolution in the opinions of the generality of scientific men. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works
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