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Excerpt from Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia, Vol. 13
Measurements are rendered difficult from the various angles at which the corallums are naturally cut by the fracture or weather ing of the matrix. Taking the Specimens irrespective of genus, an imperfect corallum from Wirrialpa is one and three - quarter inches long, and another seen in section from Ardrossan measures one and a half inches in its longest diameter, slightly obliquely. An imperfect calyx from the former locality is one and a quarter inches in diameter, but others from the latter are much larger, al mh some which appear in transverse section in the limestone possess a diameter of half an inch or slightly more, and this is a common measurement. An example from Wirrialpa differs from most of the others in having a markedly oval section, the longest diameter being one inch and the shorter three quarters of an inch. A more perfect fragment from Kanyka, three quarters of an inch in length, has a diameter at one end of half an inch, and at the other measures three-eighths. A well - preserved little corallum in Prof. Tate's collection, three quarters of an inch in length, pos sesses a diameter of a quarter of an inch, and, judging from the number of the septa is the most rudimentary form I have seen. 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.
