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MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY, 



[SECOND SERIES.] 



" per litora spargite museum, 



Kaiades, et circOm vitreos considite foiites : 

 PoUice virgineo teneros h'lc carpite flores : 

 Floribus et pictum, divae, replete canistrum. 

 At vos, o Nymphae Craterides, ite sub undas ; 

 Ite, recurvato variata corallia trunoo 

 Veilite muscosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas 

 Ferte, Ites pelagi, et pingui conchylia succo." 



S.Parthenii Giantiftiasii Fcl. 1. 



No. 43. JULY 1S51, 



1. — Report upon the Researches of ^voi. Muller into the Anatomy 

 and Development of the Echinoderms. By Thomas H. Hux- 

 ley, F.R.S. 



[With a Plate.] 



1. Mlller, Johaxx. Ueber (lie Lanen and die Metamoiphose der 



Ophiuren. Transactions of the Berlin Academy, 1846. 



2. Mt'LLER, Johaxx. Ueljer die Larven und die Metamorphose 



der Echinodermen. Ibid. 1848. 

 .i Mlller, Johaxx. Ueber die Lanen und die Metamorphose der 



Holothurien und Asterien. Ibid. 1849-50. 

 A. Muller, Johaxx. Anatomische Studien iiber die Echinodermen. 



Mailer's Arcfiir, 1850, Heft ii. 

 5. Muller, Johaxx. Berichtigung un<l Xachtrag zu den aiiatomis- 



chen Studien iiber die Echinodermen. Ibid. Heft iii. 

 (>. Muller, Johaxx. Fortsetzung der Untersuchimgen iiber die 



Metamorphose der Echinodennen. Ibid. Heft v. 

 /. Muller, Johaxx. Ueber die Ophiuren-larven des Adriatisehep 



Meeres. Ibid. 1851. Heft i. 



W E purpose in the present article to give some account of the 

 results at which the illustrious author of the works whose titles 

 are pretixed has arrived, in the course of a series of elaborate 

 and patiently conducted researches in one of the most remark- 

 able and most obscure provinces of zoological and physiological 

 science. It is a province too in which Professor Miiller is at 

 Aim. 6; Mac/. N. Hist. Ser. 2. To/, viii. 1 



