68 Scientific Intelligence. 
upon the same subject, investigated with his impartial judgment, 
under the new light which was just dawning when that compre- 
hensive treatise was published. 
Si ese remarks were written we aie received an interest- 
hlet, separately issued from the Archives des Sciences 
of “the Bibliotheque Universelle for oveuilier entitled, Seats ° 
the time it must needs require, even with all the pstmt ono- 
graphers of the day enlisted in the service. The increased 1 diffi 
culties, or at least the augmented labor, of systematic y Botknield 
work, under the present demands of the science, are indicated. 
It appears that, afer in his father’s time one could elaborate at 
under the ibaa requirements, can seldom exceed three or four 
hundred species per annum, that is, about a species a mee Poy: 
sd gi that the case on the whole is not overstated. 
2. Description of anew Genus and Species of ih eaten Potyp; ; 
Rosert EK. C. Stearns. (From the Proceedings of t 
Academy of Sciences, Ehlers 18, 1873.)—At a mete of a Cal 
ifornia Academy of Scien neces, held on the third day of February, 
1873, a paper was read by me, entitled “‘ Remarks on a New Al- 
eyonoid Polyp, from Burrard’s Inlet ;” * in which I gave a resumé 
oe pce notices, ete., in this cou ry and in England, 
ing from the examination “by several naturalists of certain 
egwitch” like forms, which had been received by different parties 
from the Gulf of Georgia (more particularly from Burrard’s Inlet, 
in said gulf), several ion of said “switches” being in the 
Museum of the California Aca 
my: 
ese “switches,” or rods, were referred by Dr. Gray, of th 
British Museum, to his genus “ perineiras ei by Mr. Sclater’s 8 
correspondent stated to belon ng to f fish ;” but by the 
majority of scientific gentlemen who hag seen these “switches ” 
they were regarded as belonging to a species of Alcyonoid Aes 
I expressed the belief that they belonged to a species of 
be 
aria. 
At a meeting of the See eranante , held on the evening of 
August 4, 1873, Dr. James B ‘a specimen of the polyp 
of which these so-called Atm da te ae axes, which had been 
sent to him pte the Gulf of Georgia by his friend, C ne. 
This specimen was one of six or seven sent at the same time, all 
of which were in a tolerable state of ation, eg Te as 
* Vide Proisk Gal hoch Wubshieds sek @ Gas oy 4h. 
