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ler’s work, was in the highest degree vague and indeterminate. His 
researches, however, have established in the most complete manner, 
and have placed in every respect in the fullest and clearest: light, 
the whole. history and relations of this curious family. He has de- 
monstrated i its arrangement into four divisions, including nine genera, 
and more than’ twenty species. Of each species he has developed 
the whole anatomy with the same exactness as if they"had been re- 
cent objects easily preserved, overcoming the many and great obsta- 
cles which, as it has been always noticed, the fossilized state presents 
tosuch inquiries. Persons who are at all aware of the complicated 
structure of the Crinoidea, and the numerous articulations which 
enter into the composition of each individual, must feel call the ar- 
duousness of such a task; but those only can fully appreciate the 
extreme care with which it has been performed, who have had an 
opportunity of examining Mr. Millér’s collection of original speci- 
mens now deposited in the Museum of the Bristol Institution, and 
of comparing these with the illustrations published in his work. 
‘The great merit of this treatise secured its immediate reception as 
the standard work on the subject, by all the scientific writers inter- 
‘ested in similar pursuits on the continent as well as in this country ; 
and reference is now uniformly made to it as such. The author had 
- intended to follow up this work, as before mentioned, by; a similar 
examination of our coralline’ remains; but it is feared that he has 
sity left no papers on this branch at all: prepared for publication. A pa- 
= of his, published in the Transactions of the Geological Society, 
Contains very valuable contributions towards the history of our fossil 
belemnites, and has been most favorably referred to by the French _ 
. author who lias subsequently published the’ standard maolinge phy of . 
that department. ; 
- Miller’s talents have been’ highly estimated by the ablest of 
our naturalists and geological writers. . Professor Blumenbach, Ba- 
pct Cuvier, MM. Laitreille and D’ Aubigné, have expressed in letters 
to him hi gh. commendation of his works. - Professor Buckland ob- 
tained his assistance in -arranging the valuable collection. of organic 
remains belonging to the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. The same 
Professor, in his very interesting paper on the recent discovery in 
this country of fossil remains belonging to the flying reptile the Pter- 
odactylus, mentions that Mr.’ Miller first su ggested to him the possi- 
bility, thus confirmed, that the fossil bones commonly supposed to 
belong to birds really appertained to that animal.. And Mr. Con ny- 
