THE ANNALS 
ANT> 
MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY, 
[FIFTH SERIES.] 
No. 18. JUNE 1879. 
XLIV .—Remarks upo?i the Memoirs on Loxosoma. 
By Oscar Schmidt *. 
When I was working in Naples in the winter of 1874-75, 
the good opportunity led me to what I may call a thorough in¬ 
vestigation of Loxosoma . The points in which I had failed were 
most thoroughly brought home to me, immediately after the 
publication of my memoir, by Nitsche, the monarch of the 
Bryozoa. As a matter of course, I was convinced by him, in 
the first place, that Loxosoma belongs to Pediceliina , and, se¬ 
condly, that my attempt to conceive of the gemmation as egg- 
development was not successful. My full acceptance of these 
main points is contained in the last edition of the 1 Handbuch 
der vergleichende Anatomie ’ and in the new r edition of the 
1 Thierleben,’ Band x. p. 181. On the other hand, I have 
to refute a series of special statements of Nitsche’s, some 
of them not unimportant. This appears to me the more neces¬ 
sary, as in the meanwhile the two detailed investigations of 
Vogt and Salensky have appeared, and Hatschek, in his me¬ 
moir on the embryonic development and gemmation of Pedicel¬ 
iina echinata (Zeitschr. fur wiss. Zool. Bd. xxix. 1877), has 
also referred to the developmental processes of Loxosoma. 
My remarks will therefore extend from Nitsche’s preliminary 
communication on the structure and gemmation of Loxosoma 
* Translated by W. S. Dallas, F.L.S., from the ‘Zeitschrift fiir wis- 
senschaftliche Zoologie,’ Band xxxi. (1878] p. 68. 
Ann . & Map. N. Hist. Ser. 5. Yol. iii. 
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