Colonial Animals
organisms a good harbor. COLONIAL ANIMALS, organisms ties, but consist of numerous more or less similar individuals united in a common life. Among the usually single-celled simplest animals or protozoa, loose colosimilar individuals united in a common not a little importance as suggestions of the bridge between the single-celled and many-celled animals. Such colonies arise ter-cells in union with itself or with one another, just like the egg-cell of a higher ducing discontinuously, retains its daughthe epoch of reproduction, a higher unity of the most powerful and celebrated arisis formed. In the same way a simple tocratic Roman families. The Colonna cup-shaped sponge, by continuous bud- produced in the Middle Ages many disding, forms a colony of similar forms, which may possess more or less distinct individuality. The common fresh-water Hydra, to mount a step higher, buds off daughter Hydræ, which remain for a while connected with the parent organism and make it temporarily colonial. a
COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA, NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE, women's patriotic organization, founded at Wilmington, Del., in 1892. Each of the original 13 colonies has a State society, as has also the District of Columbia. In many of the non-colonial States sides Pope V. tinguished members, among whom, beside V., were: tinguished members, among whom, be- sides Pope Martin V., were: Charles VIII. of France to conquer Na- Colonna, prince of Salerno. He assisted it for the House of Aragon. He served ples, but subsequently aided in retaking under the great Gonsalvo, and was prisoner to Spain. In 1513 Prospero decharged by him to conduct Cesare Borgia feated the Venetians near Vicenza, was captured by the French two years later, but won several victories over them in 1521 and the following years. He died COLONIAT A COLONY COLOPHONY power, and acquired in Africa the territories of Damaraland and Lüderitzland to the N. of Cape Colony, the Kamerun District, a considerable portion of territory formerly claimed by the Sultan of Zanzibar, the Kilima-Njaro, the greater part of Somaliland, etc.; also in the Pacific a portion of New Guinea, now called Kaiser Wilhelm's Land; the Bismarck Archipelago; and the Caroline, Pelew, and Ladrone (excepting Guam) Islands.
These colonies were all lost by the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles. By the terms of the treaty Great Britain was given a mandate for the former German African colonies, Australia administers the Bismarck Archipelago and Kaiser Wilhelm's Land. Denmark's dependencies, Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands, though of considerable extent, are of small value.
The United States has acquired Porto Rico, the Philippine and Sulu Islands, the Ladrone Island of Guam; and the Virgin Islands (Danish West Indies) by treaty and purchase ($25,000,000) in 1916.