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TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The reports upon the sponges of our district have 

 been written by Dr. R. Hanitsch, formerly Demonstrator 

 of Zoology at Liverpool University, now Curator of the 

 Museum at Singapore. 



CCELENTEEATA (Zoophytes and Anemones). 



(Figs. III. to VI.) 



This important group of animals includes the plant- 

 like Zoophytes, the Medusae or jelly-fishes, and our 

 familiar Sea-anemones, as well as many animals, such as 



Fig. III., Zoophytes (1 and 2 magnified about 40 times, 3 natural size). 



the reef-building corals, which are not found in our seas. 

 Fig. III. shows pieces of several of our commonest British 

 Zoophytes. They are all colonies or assemblages of small 

 animals united together and fixed to one spot so as to 



