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Obnervations on a paragraph in the last Number of The Edin- 

 burgh New Philosophical Journal. By VV. J. Brodeuip, 

 Esq. F. R. S. (Communicated by the Author.) 



In a paper which has for its title " Additional Remarks on 

 the Climate of the Arctic Regions, in answer to Mr Conybeare," 

 published in the last number of the Edinburgh New Philoso- 

 phical Journal, there is, at page 70, the following passage : " In 

 a note to this paragraph, he (Mr Conybeare) adds, that an Eng- 

 lish Caryophyllea had been described, by Mr Broderip, in the 

 Zoological Journal for April 1828. Mr Broderip, it is true, 

 imagined that ' the hard parts of this indigenous sjjecies do 

 not appear to have been any where described ;' but had Mr 

 Conybeare been acquainted with the history of British Zoophytes, 

 he might have corrected this mistake, by pointing out that I 

 myself had published (in the 2d volume of the Wernerian So- 

 ciety's Memoirs), a description of the same species, fourteen 

 years previous to 1828 ; and I may add, that Dr Leach saw my 

 specimens so early as 1812." 



It is by no means my intention to follow Dr Fleming through 

 his " Additional Remarks;"" but he has charged me with amis- 

 take, and I, most reluctantly, trouble you with my defence, to 

 which I shall strictly confine myself, and which will not long 

 detain your readers from subjects much more worthy of their 

 attention. 



My respect for Dr Fleming did not permit me, when I pub- 

 lished the passage to which he alludes, to suppose that he could 

 have intended to record, under the name of Caryophyllia Cya- 

 thus, the indigenous species described by me. When I first 

 saw " Caryophyllia Cyathus (Lamark), *"" so common in the 

 Mediterranean, announced in the Memoirs of the Wernerian 

 Society as an inhabitant of the sea which washes Zetland, 

 I was somewhat surprised ; but the opinion which I enter- 

 tained of Dr Fleming prevented me from supposing that he 

 had not there found two small individuals of that species, and 

 from concluding that the hard parts of Caryophyllia Smithii 

 (the Caryophyllia described by me) differing so strongly as they 



* Memoirs of the Wernerian Society, vol. ii. Part i. ji. 249. 



