II. ECU [NO DEEM A 



A. List of Officers more ob less connected with the 



ECHINODERM COLLECTIONS IN PAffl X I 



In 1837 Zoology made a separate Department 



Ki i ]■ ECS "i 



Zoology. 



J. E. Gray. 



Dr. A. Gunther. 



Sir W.H. Flower, 

 K.C.B. 



Prof. E. Ray 

 Lankester. 



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L872 I'r LG - 



l-:;. r Smith. 



Ig79 L <:. Butler. 



L895 i:. L Smith, 

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B. Progress and Arrangement of the Collectioi 



ECHINODEEMS. 



In 1855, Dr. J. E. Gray published the first pari of ■ 

 catalogue of " Recent Echinida" in the collectioD of the M 

 (12mo, 63 pp., 6 pis.). No further parts of this work un- 

 issued. 



In 1866, Dr. Gray published, at his own ex] 

 "Synopsis of the Species of Starfish in the British Museum 

 (18 pp., double cols., 16 pis.). 



In 1878 F Jeffrey Bell commenoed to Btudy the Bcnino- 

 derms, and in 1888-90 prepared a MS. catalogue 

 species, in which the Museum spe,imens are duly entered, t h> 

 catalogue is from time to time brought up to date, 

 several parts are arranged by the «OhdU*ng« monograph* 



