Xvi PREFACE. 



The Zoological arrangements of the Asterias or Star 

 Fishes at page 279, should have been thus placed, and 

 which the reader is requested to hear in mind when 

 perusing Division IV., Radiata, that the following 

 classification should have been placed as the head to 

 those Astites. " Class I., Echinodermata. Order, Pedi- 

 cellata. Genus, Asterias." This is in conformity with 

 the arrangement of the Animal Kingdom by the late 

 Baron Cuvier. The omission at the proper part of the 

 work arose in consequence of a portion of the manu- 

 script having been mislaid, and its loss was not dis- 

 covered until too late to rectify it. 



