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UMBKLLULARIA. 



modem zoological works have been taken from Ellis's description and 

 figure ; there are some details in the previous account of Mvlius whicli 

 have been overlooked. He also gave a liistory of the discovery and 

 the means by which the Coral came into his hands, which is entirely 

 omitted by EUis. — Gray, Ann. <^ Mag. Nat. Hist. ISGO, v. p. 25. 



This conduct of Ellis is the more remarkable, as we are told that 

 M. Duuze, who gave the specimen to Mr. Collinson, and was in 

 England at the time, lent M. Mylius's specimen to EUis to examine 

 the internal structure, as he did not like to open his own. Mylius 

 proposed to call it Asierias zoophytes composita (?. c. p. 24). The 

 tract is illustrated with a plate by " T. Kiihler, ad viv. del, Lond." 



De BlaimiUe (^Man. d'Act. p. 513), overlooking the fact that 

 Mylius and EUis examined two specimens, states that only a single 

 sj)ecimen is known, and does not know where the specimen described 

 by Ellis (whose description and figure has been copied by every one) 

 came from. 



See "An Account of a Xew Zoophyte or Animal Plant from Green- 

 land, in a letter to Dr. Albert Haller, President of the Koyal Society 

 of Sciences at Gottingen, written in high German by Christlob 

 MyUus, now translated into English. Priore tempore priore jure, 

 London, 1754," Svo,with a foUo plate. (Dated London, Nov. 16,1 753.) 



In hopes that it may induce naturalists to look for the animal, 

 I have added (fig. 2, p. 39) a copy of the smaU figure given by Ellis. 



27. CRINILLUM. 



CrinUlum, Van der Soeven, Kojiiiik. Akad. van ll'itoischapjHii., 18G1, 

 p. 280. 

 " Body elongate, slender ; the axis long, cjuadrangulur, four- 

 grooved ; polype -hearing branches five, limceolate, terminal." 



68. Crinillum Siedenbnrgii. 

 Crinillum Siedenburgii, Van der Hoecen, 1. c. 

 Hah. Molucca Islands. 



60. Osteocella Cliftoni. 

 Mr. G. Clifton sent, many years ago, to the British Museum 

 an elongate fusiform subcyUndrical, white, smooth bone or axis, 

 which is 10| inches long, attenuated to a point at each end ; but 

 the attenuation is much more gradual and longer at one end than at 

 the other ; the thickest part is at about one-third of the entire length 

 from the least attenuated end ; the points are honiUke or semitrans- 

 parent. It is labeUed "The backbone taken out of the marine 

 animal in bottie marked ' No. 1.' I caught him or it swimming with 

 great rapidity in shaUow water {G. Clifton)" (the bottie never 

 reached the Museum). It has much the appearance of being the bone 

 or axis of a Pennatula ; but they hardly swim with great rapidity. It 

 is probably from Australia, as there is an intelligent naturalist of the 

 name of G. Clifton there who has sent to the Museum many interest- 

 ing specimens, and coUected many alga) for Dr. Harvey. 



