170 



IIKPOUT - 1H84. 



Im 



■were well preserved: dtlierwlso the bciiutifiilly croiiiilutod wall surroiiiid- 

 iiig tlio orilice was siillicieiitly iiidicativo ol' tlie iioriiial type. 



In tlio ' Cataldj^iie of 'lY'rliai-y Fossils in tlio Scliool of Mines ' (1*^"^), 

 tilt' only species iiKlicated iVom diflbreiit horizons are as follows :-— 



4. Fmstua ckassa, IJesni., Thanofc Sands, p. 7. 



., sp., ., Woolwieli and [{eaditi;^ iJeds, [>. 10. 



('•. ,, CKAS.-A, ,, Jjondou Clay, lliylij^ate, p. 14. 



7. Poi.V/'.DON, ,, „ Sydeninim, p. li. 



In Mori'is' ' ('atalorrne of British Fossils,' and also in the Pala,'on- 

 tologieal i)ajt, of flukes' 'Students' Manual of (leology,' the following 

 species are indieated : — 



ft. EsciiAifA BKUNiiXiAKii, Lonsd., London Clay, Ih-aeklcsham Bay. 



!•. Fr.rSTKA (.'RAs>a, Dcsm., ,, „ Primrose Hill. 



10. CKi.lii;i'Ol!A ri'.TiuMS, Lcnisd., ^lid-Foccne, ]>racklesliatn. 



11. LuNi;i,rn:s ii;ci:or,Aii's, Lam , ,, ,, 



= Cdiicluiijiun's jiilfulns, Phill. and Wixxl. 



12. Iij.moni;a cukonui'I s, IJefr., ]\Iid-Eoeene, IJraeklesliani Bay. 



Besides the aI)ove I have no further record, but I have some few 

 fragments by mo of undescribed forms from the j\Iidd!(< Moeene, British 

 series. It may be jxissiblo that there are still in the rabincts of collectors 

 specimens of Poly/.oa that are awaiting deserijjtion ; if so, I shall bo glad 

 to hoar of such. 



' Terliarv, Koceno and Pliocene Polvzoa,' Professor A. E. Rcuss. 



I. In dealing with the following throe works of Dr. Reuss I have 

 been careful to present his text with his own indications of synonymy. 

 In the earlier work, published in 1847, the author described and figured 

 no fewer than 120 species of Cheilostomata and 4',l species of Cyclosto- 

 mata. This work of course was published bolore Mr. (jeorge Busk issued 

 his * British Museum Catalogue,' and also before Professor Smitt gave 

 to the scientitic world his principal writings on ' Classification,' ttc. ; yet 

 in it we are surprised to hnd how this careful investigator was working 

 towards a natural classification. 



II. In the second work, published in 18G9, Professor Reuss had the 

 advantage of correcting much of his previous labours, and in the ' Pahe- 

 ontological Studies ' many of the species of ' Fossil Polyparia ' were re- 

 duced to synonyms. In this work, too, Reuss evidently had carefully 

 studied both the classification formulated in the ' British Museum Cata- 

 logue ' and also the ' Crag Polyzoa ' of Mr. Busk. Nearly every species 

 described in this work I have carefully studied from the material supplied 

 by Professor Roemer. 



III. In the third work — ' ^Miocene Fossil Bryozoa of Austria and 

 Hungary,' 1884-5, which the author did not live to complete — we have 

 such a piece of work of which no author who has taken up the study of 

 Fossil Polyzoa need to be ashamed. In this we have full revisions of former 

 identifications — more species are reduced to synonyms — but, what I regret 

 most, the Cyclostomata are not touched. Dr. Manzoni completed the 

 second part of this grand work, but, as would be expected, he did not 

 give so many synonyms as Reuss would have done, had the work left his 

 bands in a complete form. 



