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BKITISH TUNIUATA. 



with some Observations on it communicated to Mr. 

 Collinson l)v Mr. John Ellis, F.R.S." The letter was 



FIG. ] 18. Botryllus Schlosseri incrnstiny Fiicus vesicnlosus. Natural 

 size. (After Ellis, loc. cit., pi. xiv, f. A.) "Fleshy Alcyonin.ni full 

 of Stars with blunt Kays surrounding a Fucus found in the Sea 

 near Lizard Point " (Ellis). 



read before the Royal Society 22nd January, 1756, 

 and is of sufficient interest to reproduce here. 



Schlosser says : " I hir'd some fishermen to drudge 

 for me in this harbour, in order to examine the small 

 English coral, or cantlliinn iwstrfin of ttcnfs Synopsis, 



