88 A MANUAL 



CHAPTEK VI. 



SUPPLEMENTAKY AND CPJTICAL. 

 ON THE DISTINCTIONS OF GENERA AND SPECIES. 



In the tliird chapter of this 'Manual' I have en- 

 deavoured to popularise a new arrangement of the 

 ActinicE. 



Whether the scheme be correct or no may well be 

 an open question, and one which can only be solved 

 by repeated and accurate observation. There can 

 be, however, no doubt that some such a system is 

 greatly needed. Naturalists in bygone days greatly 

 overlooked the lower orders of creation, and though, 

 in the present day, many beautiful monographs 

 exist to confute a similar charge of ignorance or 

 neglect, it is still true that no complete account of 

 the family of the Actinice has ever been compiled. 

 Perhaps it is not too much to assert that no natu- 

 ralist has ever yet paid sufficient attention to the 

 subject to warrant him in giving a monograph of the 

 Actinice to the world. There are many points of 



