﻿iv PREFACE. 



to the isolated specimens and chance fragments of which Museum Collections 

 are largely made up. 



For the great increase in the number of specimens just mentioned, the 

 Trustees are indebted mainly to Messrs. Bassett-Smith, R.N., J. J. Lister, 

 W. Saville-Kent, and Prof. A. Haddon. Further, the specimens of the 

 Montipores in the collections recently made by Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner and 

 Dr. Arthur Willey, have been worked out by Mr. Bernard, and the types of 

 seven new species have become the property of the Museum ; the descriptions 

 of these are given in an Appendix. 



In order to facilitate the identification of the earlier types of Lamarck, 

 de Blainville, and Milne-Edwards, Mr. Bernard made a special study of the 

 extensive Collection of Montipores preserved in the Paris Museum. 



Mr. F. Jeffrey Bell, the member of the permanent staff who has charge 

 of the Coral Collection, has rendered Mr. Bernard most valuable and efldcient 

 aid throughout, especially in the preparation of the plates and in editing 

 the text. 



As in Vols. L and IL, photographs of the more important specimens have 

 been reproduced by collotype by Messrs. Morgan and Kidd ; while four 

 plates of enlarged drawings of details have been lithographed by Mr. Percy 

 Highley. No pains have been spared by these artists, who have all shown 

 remarkable interest in their work. 



W. H. FLOWER, 



Director. 

 British Museum (Natural History), 

 November 1897. 



