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getable life, the Phanerogamic, or flowering- 

 plants, the whole analogy in their method of 

 increase with that of the larger part of the ani- 

 mal creation has been so long known, and so 

 much insisted on, that it is superfluous to dwell 

 on it. Enough has been said to show how the 

 same analogy holds good in the lower tribes . 

 to multiply instances would swell these pages 

 unduly and unnecessarily. The paper* recently 

 read by Professor Forbes, at the meeting of the 

 British Association at York, contains, as far as 

 can be gathered from the abstract given of it in 

 the Literary Gazette, for October 19th, 1844, 

 some very curious information bearing on this 

 branch of the subject. From that abstract the 

 analogy between " the formation of the parts of 

 the flower out of transformed leaves," and a cor- 

 responding phenomenon in " one tribe at least of 

 composite animals," seems to be manifested 



* " On the Mosychology of the Reproductive Sys- 

 tem of the Sutularian Zoophytes, and its analogy with 

 the Reproductive System of the Flowering Plants." 

 Prof. Forbes has a paper with a similar title in the 93rd 

 No. of the " Annals and Mag. of Nat. History" for Dec. 

 1844, and there are some curious observations on the 

 same subject also contained in a paper by Mr. Couch, 

 in the " Annals" for March, 1845. 



