184 ON SOME AUSTRALIAN TERTIARY CORALS. 
a which yielded many of oo aa perce ten and Prof. 
Duncan was enabled to add tw tirely new species of genera 
not itharto found, sical. ‘Dendvophyltas and Thambenedie 
at gave especial interest to these forms were, that they were 
reef-builders, whereas all the other species described were small 
icellate solitary corals (with the exception os ny si aot 
iving at comamiriaat depths at the bottom of the oce 
learned Professor Duncan all my collections. in this Pouce 
he ugh fully a 
my own deficiencies for-s such a task, fo undertake their iaveutienl 
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tion and description. Acink’ it due to science to state that I 
feel my nmeffclency, and the _ help I shall receive from 
what my predecessor in this matter has done, without which I 
would not undertake it at t all. 
y worked out of late dete os eat standard authori _g 
tographical eciety 0 on British Fossil Corals. ere is also a most 
complete “ie on the stony ponial: : Pro . Duncan, in a 
ings and definitions of the various organs an se 
These leave but little to be desired, and with ‘the ot of them 
determination of era and ies becomes a comparative 
speci 
easy task. The literature of the Corals is very rich neta ding? as it 
does the valuable reséarches of Peysson el, Pallas, Savigny, 
La , and Lamouroux, and our own cou , whose 
work ardsa Natural History of Corallines, London, 1754) 
may still be cons advantage. Ta that 
is was panne by lire ‘Milne Edwards and Audouin. 
ion 
the actine or jelly-fish and the corals. Of late years, * rest 
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