ANEMONE LITERATURE. 119 



Avriters. There are some errors in this work ; among them is 

 that of Spix, who imagined he had discovered a vascular 

 system ; but in spite of inaccuracies, Delle Chiaje's account is 

 worth studying. The next, and up to that time the most im- 

 portant publication, was that of Professor Rapp,* which may 

 still be read with profit, and was only displaced by Dr John- 

 ston's elaborate History of British Zoophytes ; and this in 

 turn will have to give way to Mr Gosse's " Monograph on 

 Sea Anemones," when that much-expected work makes its 

 appearance ; meanwhile his Rambles of a Naturalist, and 

 his Tenhy, contain valuable notices. Mr Tugwell's Manual 

 of the Sea Anemones usually found on the English Coast is 

 specially addressed to amateurs, and contains useful infor- 

 mation pleasantly conveyed, and coloured plates of rare 

 excellence. Of a rigorously scientific character are the two 

 memoirs published by M. Hollard, one " On the anatomy of 

 the Actinia, "-f- and the other Etudes Zoologiques siir le genre 

 Actinia.^ Nor, although I have not been able to procure 

 it, should Mr Teale's paper on the Anatomy of the Act. 

 cormcea in the "Leeds Philosophical Transactions" bo for- 

 gotten, since it has formed the authority for subsequent 

 writers. Separate points have been treated by Erdl, Quatre- 



was too costly for an author's purse ; but Mr Triibner, with characteristic gene- 

 rosity, insisted on lending it to me for some weeks ; the offer was too tempting 

 to be refused. It is a book to make a naturalist languish with desire. 



* Ueher die Polypen im AUgemcinen unci die Actinien ins hesoudere, 1829. 

 This work contains three coloured plates, which were thought admirable in 

 those days, but which our progress in the art of illustration throws into 

 the shade. 



+ Aiinales de.s Sciences Nat., 1851, vol. xv. 



J Revise et Alajazin, de Zoologie, 1854. No. 4. 



