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Cambridge, and to have been therefore obliged to omit representing in this work a 

 certain number of species that we have not seen in any of the numerous collections so 

 generously placed at our disposal by the great majority of the English Geologists. But 

 the omission that we here allude to is now of less importance than it appeared to us, 

 when our application to the Cambridge Museum was rejected, for, since that time, a 

 young Palaeontologist belonging to that scientific establishment, Professor M'Coy, has 

 published very good figures of almost all the Corals that we were desirous of obtaining 

 communication of from the above-mentioned Museum. His recent work 1 will enable us, 

 at least, to complete our Catalogue of the Corals found in the Carboniferous Formation 

 of Great Britain ; and having gone to Cambridge in order to see the fossils described 

 by that gentleman, we have easily recognised those species which we had already met 

 with elsewhere, and can without hesitation refer most of the others to generical divisions 

 here adopted. 



Family MILLEPORID^E, (p. lviii.) 



1. Genus Fistulipora, (p. lix.) 

 1. Fistulipora minor. 



Fistulipoka minok, M'Coy, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., 2d Series, vol. iii, p. 130, 

 figs, a, b, 1849. 



— — Milne Edwards and Jules Haime, Pol. Foss. des Terr. Palseoz., p. 220, 



1851. 



— _ M'Coy, Brit. Palseoz. Foss., p. 79, pi. iii b, fig. 12, 1851. 



" Cell-tubes with slightly prominent margins at the surface, about four in the space of 

 one line, rather less than their own diameter apart, the intervening space composed of 

 from one to three rows of the minute vesicular cells. The diaphragms in the main tubes 

 slightly irregular, about half their diameter apart ; the tubes are from half a line to nearly 

 an inch in length, according to the age of the example, but not altering, materially, their 

 diameter or relative distances. 



"Not uncommon in the Carboniferous Limestone of Derbyshire." {M'Coy, Brit. 

 Palseoz. Foss., loc. cit.) 



1 Description of the British Palaeozoic Fossils in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge, 

 by F. M'Coy. This work was published in May, 1851, some months after the first part of our ■ Monographic 

 des Polypiers des Terrains Palceozoiques,' and at least a year after the distribution of the first part of our 

 ' Description of the British Fossil Corals ' to all the members of the Palaeontographical Society. In the 

 beginning of his book (p. 17), Professor M'Coy expresses his regret at not having become acquainted 

 with the latter publication early enough to be able to refer to it ; and we feel much gratified in seeing, 

 that the results which Professor M'Coy appears therefore to have obtained solely from his own observation, 

 are often so very similar to those published by ourselves a year before ; even by a singular coincidence, he 

 often makes use of the same names for the divisions previously established in the first part of this Monograph. 



