"Subjacent" Quotes from Famous Books
... filtering beds of the basins in the water conduits are soon covered with a thick coating of confervae, and the Limnophysalis hyalina then extends from the deepest portions of the filtering beds into the filtered water subjacent. It is for this reason that it is absolutely necessary to renew so often the filtering beds of the water conduits, and, at all events, before they have become coated with a thick layer of confervae. The disappearance of intermittent ... — Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 • Various |