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kind I could not think of making without the consent of the authors, who, 

 although thej would undoubtedly fully sanction them, are not sufficiently 

 accessible to me just now, as these pages are going to press. So, however 

 much the present classification may ofiend the eye of the Zoologist, yet the 

 Anatomist will find under each head the proper details. Thus, he will find 

 as full a description of the anatomical structures of the Bryozoa and 

 Hydroid Polypi, as though they were referred to the Mollusca and Acal- 

 ephae, where truly they respectively belong. Editor. 



