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date of its organization in 1869 until 1892, when she became president. For casting a vote in the presidential election of 1872, as, she asserted, the Fourteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution entitled her to do, she was arrested and fined $100, but she never paid the fine. In collaboration with Mrs Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mrs Matilda Joslyn Gage, and Mrs Ida Husted Harper, she published _The History of Woman Suffrage_ (4 vols., New York, 1884-1887). She died at Rochester, New York, on the 13th of March 1906. See Mrs Ida Husted Harper's _Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony_ (3 vols., Indianapolis, 1898-1908). ANTHOZOA (i.e. "flower-animals"), the zoological name for a class of marine polyps forming "coral" (q.v.). Although corals have been familiar objects since the days of antiquity, and the variety known as the precious red coral has been for a long time an article of commerce in the Mediterranean, it was only in the 18th century that their true nature and structure came to be understood. By the ancients and the earlier naturalists of the Christian era they were regarded either as petrifactions or as plants, and many supposed that they occupied a position midway between minerals and plants. The discovery of the animal nature of red coral is due to J.A. de Peyssonel, a native of Marseilles, who obtained living specimens from the coral fishers on the coast of Barbary and kept them alive in aquaria. He was thus able to see that the so-called "flowers of coral" were in fact nothing else than minute polyps resembling sea-anemones. His discovery, made in 1727, was rejected by the Academy of Sciences of France, but eventually found acceptance at the hands of the Royal Society of London, and was published by that body in 1751. The structure and classification of polyps, however, were at that time very imperfectly understood, and it was fully a century before the true anatomical characters and systematic position of corals were placed on a secure basis. The hard calcareous substance to which the name coral is applied is the supporting skeleton of certain members of the _Anthozoa_, one of the classes of the phylum Coelentera. The most familiar Anthozoan is the common sea-anemone, _Actinia equina_, L., and it will serve, although it does not form a skeleton or _corallum_, as a good example of the structure of a typical Anthozoan polyp or zooid. The individual animal or zooid of _Actinia equina_ has the form
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