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ON FOSSIL rOLYZOA. 



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given, where I could, the modern find, to nie, more ficcpptablc n.ainos ; 

 otherwise the work is practically that of the author named. 



At first I only intended to give tlie history and classificulion of 

 Cyclostomatons Polyzoa, leaving for future work, or for others, tlie 

 history, &c., of Cheilostomatous forms ; not because I had no desire for 

 the complete task, but because of the limited time for the continuous 

 application necessary for the success of the Report. In making my 

 wants known to my ever constant friend — ^liss E. C. Jell}' — her answer 

 was prompt and welcome : 'The Cheilostonuita linnet be done, an 1 you 

 can command my services to any extent in the work.* Of her labours I 

 have gladly availed myself, and I owe to iier the coiupilation of many of 

 the elaborate lists given below; the arrangement, however, is m_v own. 



Tt must not be supposed that what follows aro mere barren names, 

 which are ea.sily wrjtten and as easily passed over. 1 have a line suite 

 of the Faxoo Limestone Polyzoa — almost equivalent to those of the !Maes- 

 tricht beds — and also of the Cretaceous rocks of America, and whenever 

 1 have made remarks on an authoi^'s work, I have only done so alter a 

 study of the species in my possession. The same remark will apply to 

 the Australian forms described by Mr. Waters, and numy of the .species 

 described in the works of llocmer, Keuas, and ^lanzoni. Of the Ciag 

 Poly/oa and Post-Tertiary species, 1 may .say that it was the study of 

 these forms that gave to nie my first and longing desire to make myself 

 as fully acquainted as possible with the whole of our Fossil, as with our 

 Kecent Poly/.oa, and, thanks to Miss JO. C. Jelly and to Miss Gatty, my 

 desire to a lary-e extent has been fjratitied for llccent and Fossil forms. 

 I am greatly indebt'xl to Profoisor KoeiDor of Breslau, and to ^iv. J. ]\1. 

 Xickles of Cincinnati, for material irom Cretaceous and Tertiary horizons 

 which have been of great advantage to me in my vaiied labours on these 

 Keports. 



For reasons that may bo easily umlerstood, I jilace Smitt'.s list as a 

 preface to this part of my Iveport, ratlier than in the first part, where it 

 ought to be placed. In it the student will iiiul the fullest synonym}- that 

 I have yet met with from D'Orbigny, and this in itself is a iittiiig intro- 

 duetiim to the works of lloemor and the ^lessrs. Ciibb and Horn. 



[•'. A. Smitt, 'Floridan Bryozoa,' \^7-l--i (Cheilostomata).— F. A. 

 Smitt, 'Scandinavian Bryozoa,' lH(J4-(i<'^ (Cheilostomata), and Cyclo- 

 stoniata. 



In the above works of Professor Smitt, we have not only tlu> a\ithor's 

 systematic arrangement of genera and species, but a most I'luborate 

 synonymy, and the two works aro evidently amongst the finest of original 

 memoirs ever offered to the scientific public on this special group of 

 animals. I have not thought it in any way necessary to alter or 

 ditarrancre th.etext of the author. 



Scandinavian C ii i: i io<y< i.\! ata. 



C'lIKll.'KSTOMATA. 



Sub-order C':r.nt.Ai:iN \. 



1. Ai:ti:a angiina, Linn. ; ibid , D'Orl). • Pal. Fr. Terr. Cret.' v. p. II. 



-. ,, ,, (a) i'ovniii sjid/liiilatc 



/. c. p. 836. 



ri'clu — Sloi}ui/i)j^>ortr /jiHiat, (?) D'Orb. 



