EXTINCT ANIMALS 



arms. It grows up to be a well-kno\Mi star- 

 fish, the feather-star or comatula (Fig. 218). 

 At first this history was not beheved, and the 

 Royal Society of London refused to publish 



Fig. 218. — Drawing by Mr. Berjeau from an actualTspecimen 

 of the Feather Star-fish {Comatula or Antcdon rosacea), 

 sliowing the ten " pinnate " or feather-hke arms rising 

 from the edge of the disc or central body, and the small 

 grasping " cirrhi " by wliich the animal is clinging to a 

 stone. Of the natural size. (Original.) 



Vaughan Thompson's account of what he had 

 seen. But it was soon fully established. The 

 little Pentacrini were bred in glass jars by 

 many observers from the eggs of the feather- 



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