THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[THIRD SERIES.] 



** perlitora spargite museum, 



Naiades, et circum vitreos eonsidite fontes : 

 Pollice virgineo teneros hie carpite flores : 

 Floribus et pictum, diva?, replete canistrum. 

 At vos, o Nymphae Craterides, ite sub undas ; 

 Ite, recurvato variata corallia trunco 

 Vellite muscosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas 

 Ferte, Dea? pelagi, et pingui conchylia succo." 



N.Parthenii Giannettasii Eel. 1. 



No. 31. JULY 1860, 



I. — Note on the Structure and Terminology of the Reproductive 

 System in the Corynidse and Sertulariada?. By Prof. Allman. 



IN Professor Huxley's Monograph of the Oceanic Hydrozoa, 

 lately published by the Ray Society — a work which, in accuracy 

 of description, copiousness of illustration, and philosophic treat- 

 ment of its subject, must take its place in the first rank in the 

 literature of the lower groups of the animal kingdom, — the author 

 proposes a terminology, partly special, for the particular groups 

 which form the subject of his memoir, and partly intended to 

 apply to the Hydrozoa in general. 



The greater part of Prof. Huxley's terminology is, I think, 

 very valuable, and supplies a want long felt in the descriptive 

 phraseology of this section of the animal kingdom; but I am 

 nevertheless unable to coincide with him in that part of his 

 work where he objects to my use of certain terms in the descrip- 

 tion of those parts of the Corynidse and Sertulariadae which are 

 concerned in the function of reproduction. 



I have given to Prof. Huxley's remarks on this matter that 

 careful consideration to which they are entitled, not only from 

 the authority with which their author's sanction must invest 

 them, but from the excellent spirit in which they have been 

 made ; and it is not because I have any particular affection for 

 my own terms, or would wish to insist on their priority as a 



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