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modern zoological works have been taken from Ellis's description and 

 figure ; there are some details in the jjrevious account of Mylius which 

 have been overlooked. He also gave a history of the discovery and 

 the means by which the Coral came into his hands, which is entirely 

 omitted by Ellis. — Gray, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. 1860, v. p. 25. 



This conduct of Ellis is the more remarkable, as we are told that 

 M. Dunze, who gave the specimen to Mr. Collinson, and was in 

 England at the time, lent M. Mylius's specimen to EUis to examine 

 the internal structure, as he did not like to open his own. Mylius 

 proposed to caU it Asterias zoophytes composita (I. c. p. 24). The 

 tract is illustrated with a plate by " T. Kohler, ad viv. del. Lond." 



De Blainville (Man. d'Act. p. 513), overlooking the fact that 

 Mylius and Ellis examined two specimens, states that only a single 

 specimen is known, and does not know where the specimen described 

 by Ellis (whose description and figure has been copied by every one) 

 came from. 



See "An Account of a New Zoophyte or Animal Plant from Green- 

 land, in a letter to Dr. Albert Haller, President of the Royal Society 

 of Sciences at Gottingen, written in high German by Christlob 

 Mylius, now translated into English. Priore tempore priore jure, 

 London, 1 754, "8vo,with a folio plate. (Dated London, Nov.l6, 1753.) 



In hopes that it may induce naturalists to look for the animal, 

 I have added (fig. 2, p. 39) a copy of the small figure given by Ellis. 



27. CRINILLUM. 



Crinillum, Van der Iloeven, Konink. Akad. van WetenschappeUj 1861, 

 p. 280. 

 " 15ody elongate, slender ; the axis long, quadrangular, four- 

 grooved ; polype-hearing branches five, lanceolate, terminal." 



68. Crinillum Siedenbnrgii. 

 Crinillum Siedenburgii, Van der Iloeven, I. c. 

 Hah. Molucca Islands. 



69. Osteocella Cliftoni. 

 Mr. G. Clifton sent, many years ago, to the British Museum 

 an elongate fusiform subcylindrieal, white, smooth bone or axis, 

 which is 10\ inches long, attenuated to a point at each end ; but 

 the attenuation is much more gradual and longer at one end than at 

 the other ; the thickest part is at about one-third of the entire length 

 from the least attenuated end ; the points are hornlike or scmitrans- 

 parent. It is labelled " The backbone taken out of the marine 

 animal in bottle marked ' No. 1.' I caught him or it swimming with 

 great rapidity in shallow water {G. Clifton)''^ (the bottle never 

 reached the Museum). It has much the appearance of being the bone 

 or axis of a Pennatula ; but they hardly swim with great rapidity. It 

 is probably from Australia, as there is an intelligent naturalist of the 

 name of G. Clifton there who has sent to the Museum many interest- 

 ing spcciracus, and collected many algfe for Dr. Harvej". 



