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1844. — Edward Forbes : " Annals and Magazine of Natural History," 

 vol. xiv., pp. 4l:-5-414. Describes the capture of the first British 

 specimens of Funiculina ; the first indeed recorded from any 

 locality other than Naples. The specimens, which were dredj^ed 

 by Mr. MacAndrew, were obtained, " both dead and alive, in 

 twenty fathoms water, off the island of Kerrera, near (^ban, the 

 bottom being mud, in which it doubtless stands erect, after the 

 manner of Vir<inliiri(i." One of the specimens, jJOins. in 

 length, was exhibited at the Natural History Section of the 

 British Association at the York Meeting in 1844. 



1847. — Edward Forbes, in "Johnston's British Zoophytes," 2nd ed., 

 vol. i., pp. ;l(;4-l()fj, mentions obtaining specimens of Funicvliita, 

 the largest of them 4ft. long, in twelve to fifteen fatlioms of 

 water, " near Oban, but nowhere else :" describes them as rose- 

 coloured, when living, and brilliantly phosphorescent. In vol. ii., 

 Plate XXXI., Figs. 1 — 7, he gives seven figures of FidticiiliiKt 

 from his own drawings. These, which are the only figures yet 

 published of British specimens, give a fair general idea of 

 Funiculina, but are in inany respects exceedingly inaccurate. 



1851. — Kolliker : " Zeitschrift fiir wissenschaftliche Zoologie," Bd. iii., 

 p. 91, in a letter to Siebold, mentions obtaining, while in 

 Scotland, a specimen, 3ft. long, which he took back with him to 

 Wiirzbiirg, and which, he remarks, was probably the first specimen 

 ever seen in Germany. 



1855. — Gosse : " Manual of Marine Zoology," Part I., p. 35, Fig. 55. 

 Copies on a reduced scale two of Forbes' figures given in "Johnston's 

 Zoophytes." 



185(3. _-Sars, Koren, and Danielssen : " Fauna littoralia Norvegiee,^' 

 Andet Hefte, pp. 73 and 92. Mention the capture of a specimen, 

 4ft. long, at Eisvaag, in the P^iord of Bergen, in 100 fathoms of 

 water, and note that this was the first, and up to the date of 

 publication, the only specimen obtained from the Scandinavian 

 shore. 



*1858. — Herklots : " Notices pour servir a I'etude des Pennatulides, 

 Bijdragen, tot de Dierkunde, Amsterdam," p. 8. We have been 

 unable either to consiilt this work or even to obtain any second- 

 hand account of its contents as regards FunicuVnia. As the 

 reference is merely to a single page, it can hardly contain any 

 anatomical account. 



1850. — Gray : Revision of the family Fennatulidcc. " Annals and 

 Magazine of Natural History," p. 20. 



1864. — A. E. Verrill : List of the Polypes and Corals sent by the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology to other institutions in exchange, 

 with Annotations ; published in the " Bulletin of the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology," at Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., 

 p. 30. Describes Scotch specimens obtained from Mr. Stimpson 

 as of a distinct species (F. Furbi'Kii) from the Mediterranean one. 



1869 — Richiardi : " Monografia della Famiglia dei Pennatularii : 

 Bologna," pp. 89-95. Disputes the accuracy of Verrill's distinc- 

 tion, stating that he has obtained from the Mediterranean com- 

 plete series of specimens leading from Verrill's F. Furbesii, which 

 he considers merely a young form, to the typical F. quudramjularis. 

 Gives on Plate XII., Figs. 95 and 96, a very imperfect and greatly 

 reduced figure in two halves of the adult Funiculina. 



