OK FOSSIL POLYZOA. . 153 



given, where I could, the modern and, to me, more acceptable names ; 

 otherwise the work is practically that of the author named. 



At first I only intended to give the history and classification of 

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

 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 — Miss E. C. Jell}' — her answer 

 was prompt and welcome : 'The Cheilostomata must be done, and you 

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

 have gladly availed myself, and I owe to her the compilation of many of 

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



It must not be supposed that what follows are mere barren names, 

 which are easily written and as easily passed over. I have a fine suite 

 of the Faxoe Limestone Polyzoa — almost equivalent to those of the Maes- 

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

 I have made remarks on an author's work, I have onlj^ done so after a 

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

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

 described in the works of Roemer, Reuas, and Manzoni. Of the Crag 

 Polyzoa and Post-Tertiary species, I may say that it was the study of 

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

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

 Recent Polyzoa, and, thanks to Miss E. C. Jelly and to Miss Gatty, my 

 desire to a large extent has been gratified for Recent and Fossil forms. 

 I am greatly indebted to Professor Roemer of Breslau, and to Mr. J. M. 

 Nlckles of Cincinnati, for material from Cretaceous and Tertiaiy horizons 

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

 Reports. 



For reasons that may be easily understood, I place Smitt's list as a 

 preface to this part of my Report, rather than in the first part, where it 

 ought to be placed. In it the student will find the fullest synonymy that 

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

 duction to the works of Roemer and the Messrs. Gabb and Horn. 



F. A. Smitt, 'Floridan Bryozoa,' 1872-3 (Cheilostomata).— F. A. 

 Smitt, 'Scandinavian Bryozoa,' 1864-68 (Cheilostomata), and Cyclo- 

 stomata. 



In the above works of Professor Smitt, we have not only the author's 

 systematic arrangement of genera and species, but a most elaborate 

 synonymy, and the two works are 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 

 disarrange the text of the author. 



Scandinavian Cheilostomata. 



Cheilostomata. 



Sub-order Cellcxarina. 



1. Aetea anguina, Linn. ; ibid , D'Orb. ' Pal. Fr. Terr. Cret.' v. p. 41. 

 -• ,, ,, (a) forma spathulata 



3. „ „ (/3) ,, recta = Stomatopora gallica, (?) D'Orb. 



I c. p. 836. 



