﻿INFERIOR 
  OOLITE 
  OP 
  SHIPTON 
  GORGE, 
  DORSET. 
  563 
  

  

  Pergens 
  and 
  Meunier, 
  in 
  their 
  description 
  of 
  the 
  Faxoe 
  Bryozoa 
  *, 
  

   point 
  out 
  the 
  deficiencies 
  in 
  d'Orbigny's 
  system, 
  and 
  add 
  that 
  in 
  

   their 
  opinion 
  the 
  time 
  for 
  a 
  new 
  classification 
  has 
  not 
  yet 
  arrived. 
  

   They 
  base 
  their 
  work 
  upon 
  the 
  Smitt-PIincksian 
  system, 
  without, 
  

   however, 
  as 
  rhey 
  state, 
  acknowledging 
  the 
  pretended 
  constancy 
  of 
  

   the 
  zocecial 
  orifice, 
  which 
  presents 
  remarkable 
  differences 
  in 
  many 
  of 
  

   the 
  species. 
  We 
  must 
  acknowledge 
  the 
  keenness 
  of 
  their 
  criticism 
  

   when 
  they 
  go 
  on 
  to 
  say 
  that 
  to 
  substitute 
  one 
  classification 
  based 
  

   principally 
  upon 
  a 
  single 
  character, 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  mouth 
  of 
  a 
  cell, 
  for 
  

   that 
  which 
  has 
  in 
  view 
  the 
  form 
  of 
  a 
  colony, 
  is 
  to 
  replace 
  one 
  arti- 
  

   ficial 
  classification 
  by 
  another 
  almost 
  further 
  removed 
  from 
  the 
  

   reality, 
  and 
  leads 
  to 
  ignoring 
  what 
  are 
  really 
  the 
  staple 
  characters 
  

   in 
  one 
  division 
  when 
  applied 
  to 
  the 
  other. 
  

  

  Suborder 
  CYCLOSTOMATA. 
  

  

  Division 
  Parallelata. 
  

  

  Family 
  Tubuliporid^. 
  

  

  Genus 
  Stomatopora. 
  

   Stomatopora, 
  Bronn, 
  Pflanzenth. 
  p. 
  27 
  (1825). 
  

  

  1. 
  Stomatopora 
  pichotoma, 
  Lamx. 
  

  

  Alecto 
  dichotoma, 
  Lamouroux, 
  Exp. 
  meth. 
  des 
  genres 
  des 
  Pol. 
  

   p. 
  84, 
  pi. 
  81. 
  figs. 
  12, 
  13, 
  14 
  (1821). 
  

  

  Aulopora 
  dichotoma, 
  Goldfuss, 
  Petref. 
  Germ. 
  t. 
  i. 
  p. 
  218, 
  pi. 
  65. 
  

   fig. 
  2 
  (1833). 
  

  

  Alecto 
  dichotoma, 
  Morris, 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  Brit. 
  Fossils, 
  p. 
  30 
  

   (1843) 
  ; 
  Michelin, 
  Icon. 
  Zoophyt. 
  p. 
  238 
  (1846), 
  non 
  pi. 
  2. 
  fig. 
  10, 
  

   p. 
  10. 
  

  

  Stomatopora 
  dichotoma, 
  Haime, 
  Descr. 
  cles 
  Bryozoaires 
  Foss. 
  de 
  

   la 
  Form. 
  Jurass. 
  p. 
  160, 
  pi. 
  6. 
  fig. 
  1, 
  Mem. 
  Soc. 
  Geol. 
  de 
  France, 
  

   1854 
  ; 
  Beuss, 
  Bryozoen, 
  Anthoz. 
  u. 
  Spong. 
  d. 
  braun. 
  Jura 
  v. 
  Balin 
  bei 
  

   Krakau,p.2, 
  pl.Lfig.4,Abhandl.Akad.d.Wissensch.Wien,mathem.- 
  

   naturw. 
  CI. 
  xxvii. 
  Bd. 
  (1867) 
  ; 
  Brauns, 
  Die 
  Bryozoen 
  des 
  mittl. 
  Jura 
  

   der 
  Gegend 
  v. 
  Metz, 
  p. 
  320, 
  Zeitschr. 
  d. 
  deutsch. 
  geolog. 
  Gesellschaft, 
  

   Jahrg. 
  1879 
  ; 
  Vine, 
  Polyzoa 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  Boring 
  at 
  Richmond, 
  

   Surrey, 
  p. 
  786, 
  fig. 
  1, 
  Quart. 
  Journ. 
  Geol. 
  Soc. 
  vol. 
  xl. 
  (1884); 
  

   Vine, 
  Notes 
  on 
  the 
  Polyzoa 
  of 
  Caen 
  and 
  Ranville, 
  p. 
  12, 
  Journ. 
  

   Northampton. 
  Nat. 
  Hist. 
  Soc. 
  & 
  Field 
  Club 
  (1888). 
  

  

  Zocecial 
  length 
  0*6 
  millim., 
  width 
  0*3; 
  aperture 
  0-07. 
  

  

  I 
  find 
  two 
  slightly 
  diverging 
  forms 
  — 
  the 
  typical 
  one 
  with 
  measure- 
  

   ments 
  as 
  quoted, 
  and 
  agreeing 
  well 
  with 
  Haime's 
  figures 
  f 
  ; 
  the 
  

   other, 
  as 
  figured 
  by 
  Eeuss 
  %, 
  with 
  rather 
  shorter 
  and 
  more 
  puffed- 
  

  

  * 
  " 
  Bryoz. 
  Garumn. 
  de 
  Faxe," 
  Ann. 
  de 
  la 
  Soc. 
  Malacolog. 
  de 
  Belg. 
  t. 
  xxi. 
  

  

  t 
  "Descr. 
  des 
  Bryozoaires 
  Foss." 
  par 
  Jules 
  Haiuie, 
  Mem. 
  Soc. 
  Geol. 
  de 
  

   France, 
  2e 
  serie, 
  t. 
  v. 
  pi. 
  1. 
  fig. 
  1 
  (1854). 
  

  

  | 
  "Bryozoen, 
  Anthoz. 
  u. 
  Spong. 
  d. 
  braun. 
  Jura 
  v. 
  Balin 
  bei 
  Krakau," 
  Abh. 
  

   Akad. 
  d. 
  Wissensch. 
  Wien, 
  matbem.-naturw. 
  CI. 
  xxvii. 
  Bd. 
  1867, 
  Taf. 
  1. 
  fig. 
  3 
  b. 
  

  

  