THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY, 



[SECOND SERIES.] 



" ., per litora spargite museum, 



Naiades, et circum vitreos considite fontes : 

 Pollice virgineo teneros hie carpite flores : 

 Floribus et pictum, diva?, replete canistrum. 

 At vos, o Nymphs Craterides, ite sub undas ; 

 Ite, recurvato variata corallia trunco 

 Vellite muscosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas 

 Ferte, Deae pelagi, et pingui conchylia succo." 



N. Parthenii Giannrttasii Eel. 1. 



No. 43. JULY 1851. 



I. — Report upon the Researches q/Trof. Miller into the Anatomy 

 and Development of the Echinoderms. By Thomas H. Hux- 

 ley, F.R.S. 



[With a Plate.] 



1. Muller, Johann. Ueber die Larven und die Metamorphose der 



Ophiuren. Transactions of the Berlin Academy, 1846. 



2. Muller, Johann. Ueber die Larven und die Metamorphose 



der Echinodermen. Ibid. 1848. 



3. Muller, Johann. Ueber die Larven und die Metamorphose der 



Holothurien und Asterien. Ibid. 1849-50. 



4. Muller, Johann. Anatomische Studien iiber die Echinodermen. 



Muller's Archiv, 1850, Heft ii. 



5. Muller, Johann. Berichtigung und Nachtrag zu den anatomis- 



chen Studien iiber die Echinodermen. Ibid. Heft hi. 

 6*. Muller, Johann. Fortsetzung der Untersuchungen iiber die 



Metamorphose der Echinodermen. Ibid. Heft v. 

 7- Muller, Johann. Ueber die Ophiuren-larven des Adriatischen 



Meeres. Ibid. 1851. Heft i. 



WE purpose in the present article to give some account of the 

 results at which the illustrious author of the works whose titles 

 are prefixed has arrived, in the course of a series of elaborate 

 and patiently conducted researches in one of the most remark- 

 able and most obscure provinces of zoological and physiological 

 science. It is a province too in which Professor Muller is at 

 Ann. $ Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 2. Vol. viii. f 1 



