12 NATURAL HISTORY OP 



in wliich he adopted the views of LinnaBus ; but Ellis 

 steadily refused to modify his views, and held out to 

 the last for the complete animality of all Zoophytes. 

 It was the intention of Ellis to write an exhaustive 

 history of the order, but ill-health prevented him, and 

 he got no further than the production of the plates 

 and a number of notes which he compiled with the aid. 

 of his friend, Dr. Solauder, who after Ellis' death 

 arranged them in form for publication. His intention 

 was frustrated by his own death ; but Sir Joseph 

 Banks, the President of the Royal Society, desiring 

 their publication, this was accomplished by Ellis' 

 daughter, Mrs. Watt. In this book the Actiniae are 

 for the first time included amongst the Zoophytes, 

 which term is therein employed in the sense in 

 which it is now generally received, its use as a 

 term of classification having entirely ceased. Ellis' 

 woi"k was the only one which treated of British 

 Zoophytes alone until the year 1828, although in the 

 meantime many writers had dealt with the subject 

 generally. 



In 1780, Otho Fabricius wrote his '' Fauna Green- 

 landica." In 1785, Cavolini published an interesting 

 memoir upon marine polyps. In 1816 appeared 

 the second volume of Lamarck's " Auimaux sans Ver- 

 tebras;" and in the same year Lam ouroux published 

 his " Histoire des Polypiers Coralligenes Flexibles." 

 Lamouroux' work was translated into English in 

 1824, and was the first English work, subsequent 

 to that of Ellis and Solander, dealing with the subject 

 in its entirety. In 1817, Cuvier's ''Regne Animal" 

 appeared. In 1828, Dr. John Fleming published a 

 " History of British Animals," at the close of which 



