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was called the hammer. Naturally the objects on the membrane 

 changed places on the skin, and by their incidence upon the 

 respective figures, the future «as foretold. The figures on the 

 drum are thus identified : — 



1. The sun with its beams in four directions, 2. Eeindeer 

 paddock (?), 3. Lapp tent, 4. Reindeer, 5-8. Deities, 9. The 

 sacrifice, 10. Boat, 11. Reindeer, 12. Road to peasant's cottage, 

 13-15. Lapp divinities or uorns. 16. Road with 4 human 

 figures, 17. Reindeer enclosure (?), 18. The kingdom of the 

 dead, 19. Magician with drum. 



The remainder of the picture shows other Lapps hunting, 

 boating, driving in reindeer sleighs, with the sun in its course 

 visible throughout the entire twenty-four hours, and apparently 

 about 3 A.M. judging from its ])osition, a Lapp storehouse on poles, 

 and sundry other indications of their wandering life. 



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March 2, 16, and May 4, 1911. 



The terms Poltzoa and Bryozoa. 



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The Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing made the following remarks : — 

 Like tlie suit of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, the conti-oversy between 

 the terms Polyzoa and Bryozoa seems almost interminable. An 

 attempt to settle it ought to be welcome. For this purpose it is 

 desirable to confront the arguments on each side. 



Tlie late Mr. Busk, in his monograph of the Crag Polyzoa, 1859, 

 after mentioning that Milue-Edwards had proposed to distinguieh 

 this group from the hydroid polyps by the name of ' Polypes 

 tuuiciers,' goes on to say: — "Another independent observer, how- 

 ever, Dr. John Y. Thompson, of Cork, was also at work on the same 

 vsubject, the results of wliose researches, apparently commenced in 

 1S20, were not published till December 1830, in the first part of his 

 ' Zoological Researches and Illustrations.' He, like M. Milne- 

 Edwards, recognising the close atPinities presented in the structui'o 

 of the animals to that of tlie compound Ascidians, was the first to 

 propose for them an nppellation wholly independent of their former 

 incongruous allies, the hydroid ' Polypes.' The term he emj)l()yed 

 was ' Polyzoa,' it ' being applied,' as he says, ' to a distinct class of 

 Polypes hitherto in great measure confounded with the llvdroida.' 

 But it is to be remarked that he used the word in the singular 

 number, so that the plural term, ' Polyzoa,' as now employed, though 

 etymologically more correct, is not in reality synonymous with that 

 of Dr. J. Y. Thompson. This fact, which appears to have been 

 strangely overlooked till 1852, may fairly enough be used as an 

 argument in their favour by those who are inclined to prefer the 

 Ehrenbergian term 'Bryozoa.' But as this preference, which is still 

 extensively prevalent, more especially on the Continent, is based 

 simply on thesupposed priorily of Profesfor Ehreuberg's appellation, 



