V. A XT II o/o. \ 



[A. Officers same as i . . IDEBM8. 



B. Progress and Arrangement of the Collection of 

 Anthozoa. 



No considerable collection of named Corals has ever been 

 obtained. 



Several efforts were made in the latter pari of the century to 

 catalogue the specimens. In 1877, Dr. Bruggemann, a specialist, 

 was employed by the Trustees to prepare a catalogue \ be, 

 however, died in April, 1878. In July, 1878, the collection of 

 Corals was confided to Mr. S. O. Ridley, who entered 

 second-class Assistant. Mr. Ridley did some interesting work 

 on Corals, but resigned his office in 1 S S 7 . In L885, Ml J. J, 

 Quelch, who was not a specialist, also a second-class Assistant, 

 was employed, in his own time, to work out the " dall, 

 collection of Corals, which was deposited in the Museum. In 

 1890, Dr. Gunther succeeded in inducing Mr. G _ Brook, 

 who had distinguished himself by a report on the " ('/<<i ! f, .<, 

 Antipatharia, to undertake to write a catalogue j he produced 

 a complete monograph of the genus Madrepore | Ito, \ii.. 212 

 pp., 35 plates) in 1893, and, unfortunately, died on the 1 2th 

 August of that year. 



Shortly afterwards the work was confided to Ml II. M. 

 Bernard, who, in 1896, produced a monograph of tfa 

 Turbinaria and Astrseopora (4 to, iv., 106 pp., 33 j 

 1897, of Montipora and Anacropora (viii., 192 pp.. 34 p] 

 and in 1903 a volume dealing with G ra riii, I 6 pp., 



16 plates). 



Not much work has been done on the other 

 Anthozoa. Dr. Gray, in 1*70, published a catalogued 5 

 or Pennatulariklr (8vo, K> pp.), and of the LithopI 



