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pierced with numerous minute pores; star irregular, compressed or 
sinuous ; laminz narrow, then cribellated on the surface, and with an 
oblong, elongated, convex, cribellated centre. 
Var. star more or less contracted in the centre, forming two more 
or less distinct roundish stars. 
Hab. Chinese Seas. 
This species is immediately known from the former by the pecu- 
liarity of the surface, which is like that of Caryophyllea ramea, and 
by the convex elongated form of the centre of the star. 
I have described these three species together on account of their 
having the same form and habit, but the structure of the surface and 
the great difference in the form and conformation of the stars induce 
me to believe that they probably belong to three very distinct families 
of corals. 
Since I described these corals I have shown the two latter species 
to M. Milne-Edwards, who states that they had not before come 
under his observation. 
LINNZAN SOCIETY. 
May 24, 1849.—The Lord Bishop of Norwich, President, in the Chair. 
This day, the anniversary of the birth of Linneus, and that ap- 
pointed by the Charter for the Election of Council and Officers, the 
President opened the business of the day, and the Secretary read 
the following notices of those Members of the Society with whose 
decease he had become acquainted during the year. 
Sir John Barrow, Bart. 
George Bennett, Esq. 
Edwin Charles Charlton, Esq. 
Edward Forster, Esq., the late lamented Treasurer of the Society, 
was the third son of Edward Forster, Esq., for fifty-two years 
Governor of the Russia Company of London, and was born at 
Walthamstow in the county of Essex on the 12th of October 1765. 
He passed the greater part of his childhood in the neighbourhood 
of Epping Forest, and from the age of fifteen became particularly 
attached to the study of English botany, which he ardently culti- 
vated through a long and active life. He was a partner in the 
eminent banking-house of Lubbock, Forster and Company, and to 
within a few hours of his death took a leading part in the business 
of the bank. In 1800 he was elected a Fellow of the Linnzan 
Society, of which he became Treasurer in 1816, and one of the 
Vice-Presidents in 1828; and his kindliness of disposition, unre- 
mitting attention to his duties, and zeal for the interests of the 
Society, will long endear his memory to all its members. He was a 
man of very active habits ; rising daily at 6 o’clock, usually spending 
an hour before breakfast in his garden, in which he cultivated many 
of the rarer and more obscure British species, and taking a great 
deal of bodily exercise, which, together with his extreme temperance, 
probably contributed greatly to the prolongation of his life: His 
‘death, which took place in the 84th year of his age, at his residence, 
