THE ANNALS 
AND 
MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
[THIRD SERIES.] 
Of cv caneshastvunnente 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 Nymph Craterides, ite sub undas ; 
Ite, recurvato variata corallia trunco 
Vellite a e rupibus, ct _— — ; 
erte, Dez pelagi, et pingui conchylia succo.”’ 
= N. Parthenii Giannettasii Ecl.1. 
"Saaz 
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No. 31. JULY 1860. 
I.—Note on the Structure and Terminology of the Reproductive 
System in the Corynide and Sertulariade. By Prof. ALLman. 
IN Professor Huxley’s Monograph of the Oceanic Hydrozoa, 
lately published by the Ray Society—a work which, in accuracy 
of description, copiousness of illustration, and philosophic treat- 
ment of its subject, must take its place in the first rank in the 
literature of the lower groups of the animal kingdom,—the author 
proposes a terminology, partly special, for the particular groups 
_ which form the subject of his memoir, and partly intended to 
apply to the Hydrozoa in general. 
The greater part of Prof. Huxley’s terminology is, I think, 
very valuable, and supplies a want long felt in the descriptive 
phraseology of this section of the animal kingdom; but I am 
nevertheless unable to coincide with him in that part of his 
work where he objects to my use of certain terms in the deserip- 
tion of those parts of the Corynidz and Sertulariadz which are 
concerned in the function of reproduction. 
I have given to Prof. Huxley’s remarks on this matter that 
careful consideration to which they are entitled, not only from 
the authority with which their author’s sanction must invest 
them, but from the excellent spirit in which they have been 
made; and it is not because I have any particular affection for 
my own terms, or would wish to insist on their priority as a 
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