LIST OP ECHINODERMATA. 49 



burghshiro. Mr Selby then favoured the Club with some account of an 

 interesting collection of insects, made in the neighbourhood of the Pease 

 Bridge, by Mr James Hardy, to whom a letter of thanks was unani- 

 mously voted, not only for this communication, but for the cordial in- 

 terest he has taken in the prosperity of the Club. Mr Darling then 

 read a short account of his success in planting potatoes in autumn — 

 a novel practice which some other members had tried with success — 

 and the conversation which this led to continued to engross the Club 

 until the approaching twilight warned the members to bethink of the 

 homeward road, and left me without a theme for further talk. 



A List of Echinodermata found on the coast at Emhletony Northum- 

 berland. By R. Embleton, Surgeon. 



In enumerating the following species, I have followed the arrange- 

 ment and nomenclature of Professor Forbes, in his interesting work on 

 the British Star-Fishes ; a work not less valuable for the faithfulness of 

 the descriptions than for the beauty and correctness of the illustrations, 

 and which must have proved of infinite advantage to every one engaged 

 in the study of this curious and beautiful class of animated beings. 



CRINOIDEiE. 

 Genus Comatula. 

 C. ROSACEA. — Rosy Feather Star. During the summer of 1842 I ob- 

 tained a single specimen of this highly curious and interesting species from 

 deep water in Embleton Bay ; and is, as far as I know, the only speci- 

 men that has been taken on the east coast of our island. I must refer 

 to the above named work for a full account of its curious transforma- 

 tions ; " its history is one of the little romances in which natural history 

 abounds, one of those narrations which, while believing, we almost doubt* 

 and yet which, doubting, must believe." 



OPHIURIDJE. 



Gcnu^ Ophiura. 

 0. TEXURATA. — Common Sand Star. Not unfrequent. 

 O. ALBIDA. — Lesser Sand Star. Not rare. 



Genus. Ophiocoma. 



0. NEGLECTA Grey Brittle Star. Frequent. 



O. GRANULATA. — Chranulated Brittle Star. Common. 



O. BELLis. — Daisy Brittle Star. Frequent. 



O. GooDsiRii. — Goodsir*s Brittle Star. In examining a large piece 



