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MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
[THIRD SERIES. ] 
SSiorasnctesatwesses per litora spargite muscum, 
Naiades, et circdm vitreos considite fontes : 
Pollice virgineo teneros hic carpite flores : 
Floribus et pictum, dive, replete canistrum. 
At vos, 0 Nymphe Craterides, ite sub undas ; 
Ite, recurvato variata corallia trunco 
Vellite muscosis e rupibus, ct mihi conchas 
Ferte, Dez pelagi, et pingui conchylia succo,”” 
N. Parthenii Gianncettasii Ecl.1. 
No. 97. JANUARY 1866. 
].—On the Classification of the Annelides. 
By A. pe Quatreraces*. 
Act naturalists know what Linnzeus and his immediate successors 
understood by the word Vermes; they also know that Cuvier was 
the first to disentangle the chaos in which the want of precise 
knowledge had long left this mass of Invertebrata, and that in 
consequence of the division of the animal kingdom into four 
sections (embranchements), the expression Vermes ceased for a long 
time to be applied to any group of the animals of which it had 
formerly been the common designation. Without enumerating 
here the numerous endeavours made for the purpose of perfection- 
ating the first conceptions of the great reformer of zoology, I 
shall merely remind the reader that M. Milne-Edwards proposed 
to divide the Articulata of Cuvier into two subsections ; that one 
of these divisions has received the name of Vermes, which ap- 
peared to be finally struck out of our scientific catalogues ; and 
that this view has been accepted by a great number of natural- 
ists. For my part, I believe it to be fully justified. 
The subsection Vermes being thus established, it remains to 
*Translated by W. S. Dallas, F.L.S., from the ‘ Annales des Sciences 
Naturelles,’ 1865, Zoologie, p.253. This memoir includes a reply to some 
remarks by M. Claparéde on M. Quatrefages’ system ; of the latter a transla- 
tion will appear in a future Number. 
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 3. Vol. xvii. 1 
