204 Mr. F. A. Bather on British Fossil Crinoids : 



to Sco2)kiocrinus {^e\ . I. 114, Proc. 1879, p. 337). Miller's 

 fig. 28 probably represents a Sci/talecn'nus, but the anal area is 

 not very clear ; at any rate it does not agree with the diagnosis 

 or diagrams of Cyathocrinus. In his diagnosis of the genus 

 Miller stated that the stem had irregular " side arms " or 

 cirri, and such were represented in his figures 26 and 27 ; but 

 of these the Austins said [op. cit. p. 61), they " are not the 

 side arms of any species of Cyathocrinus, 26, being a small 

 column, and 27, the column and side arms of a Poferiocrinus." 

 No species agreeing in other respects with Miller's diagnosis 

 is known to possess cirri of this nature. 



The foregoing specimens were no doubt placed, as was the 

 rest of J. S. Miller's valuable collection, in the Bristol 

 Museum*, where they were shown to L. Agassiz by the then 

 curator, Mr. S. Stutchbury f- But, to the disgrace of the 

 inhabitants of that town, all these treasures have been 

 gradually allowed to disappear from that, their natural 

 resting-place. 



There was, however, another specimen figured by 3Iiller 

 (figs. 29 and 30), which was said by him (p. 87) to be " in 

 the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford." The drawings agree 

 perfectly with the generic diagnosis and diagram, and this 

 specimen would be the best to take as the type of the species. 

 Unfortunately, in the transfer from the Ashmolean to the new 

 Museum at Oxford, this, with other important specimens, 

 appears to have been mislaid, and all search for it has up till 

 now been fruitless. It were to be wished that those in charge 

 of some of our museums would remember that they are respon- 

 sible, not merely to their immediate employers, not to the 

 town, nor even to the nation, but to the whole world now and 

 to come. 



J. Phillips, in his 'Geology of Yorkshire' (1836), did not 

 rocognize C. lylanus. He figured, however, under the name 

 C. distortus (vol. ii. p. 206, pi. iii. fig. 34), a specimen that 

 was obviously of the same species as Miller's figs. 29 and 30. 

 The Austins appear to have studied Miller's type specimens 

 before they were 'conveyed' from the Museum of the Bristol 

 Insiitution, and they retained the sjiecies C. planus, figuring 

 {op. cit. pi. vii. fig. 4 c, d) a specimen which was in all 

 probability the original of the cup in Miller's fig. 1, as well 

 as a specimen (pi. vii. fig. 4 e) probably the same as that 

 figured by Phillips for C. distortus, which species they con- 



* See ' The West of England Jouru. Sci. and Lit.,' no. 1, pp. 4, 19,98, 

 and 252 : Bristol, Jan. 183o. 



t L. Apassiz, ' Poissons Fossiles,' 4'' livv., fouilleton additionel. p. 52 

 (ia35). 



