Living lights (Registro nro. 116857)
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| control field | 76132 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | UtSlPG |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20260610134748.0 |
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| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | QL |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Holder, Charles Frederick, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1851-1915 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Living lights |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | "Bibliography of works on phosphorescence": p. 179-184. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2025-05-21 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | deaurider, Karin Spence and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Living lights : A popular account of phosphorescent animals and vegetables" by Charles Frederick Holder is a popular natural history book written in the late 19th century. It explores the phenomenon of bioluminescence across the animal and plant kingdoms (and even minerals), with special emphasis on marine life, presenting vivid observations, experiments, and travel reports to engage curious readers and young naturalists. The opening of the book lays out the author’s aim to entice young people into outdoor observation through the marvels of natural light, noting that while luminous organs are well described, the true cause of animal phosphorescence remains unknown. It then surveys bioluminescence at sea: the teeming, star-like glow of Noctiluca at the surface; the “meteors” of jellyfish and ctenophores such as Venus’ girdle; and fixed “lights” like sea anemones, corals, sea-fans, and sea-pens that can illuminate whole underwater “forests.” Next come deep-sea echinoderms—brilliant starfish and ophiuroids dredged from great depths—followed by luminous worms, from earthworms and rotifers to flamboyantly glowing marine polychaetes. The narrative turns to mollusks, from the lamp-like Pholas to wing-footed pteropods (Cleodora) and the striking, transparent Phyllirhoë, with notes on possible glow in squids. It concludes this opening stretch by introducing lightning-bugs, blending field anecdotes (including Jamaican fireflies) with clear descriptions of their light organs and behavior. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1887 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Animals |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Phosphorescence |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Bioluminescence |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Clément, A.-L. |
| Fuller form of name | (Armand-Lucien), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1848-1921 |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t5db7wt2g">https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t5db7wt2g</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76132">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76132</a> |
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