426 STRUCTURE OF LILY ENCRINITE 
the hands and fingers (see PI. 47, figs. 1, 2, 3. 
and PI. 50, figs. 1, 2, 3.), the surface of each 
bone articulates with that adjacent to it, with the 
most perfect regularity and nicety of adjustment. 
So exact, and methodical is this arrangement, 
even to the extremity of its minutest tentacula, 
that it is just as improbable, that the metals 
which compose the wheels of a chronometer 
should for themselves have calculated and ar- 
ranged the form and number of the teeth of 
each respective wheel, and that these wheels 
should have placed themselves in the precise 
position, fitted to attain the end resulting from 
the combined action of them all, as for the suc- 
cessive hundreds and thousands of little bones 
that compose an Encrinite, to have arranged 
themselves, in a position subordinate to the end 
produced by the combined effect of their united 
Mechanism; each acting its peculiar part in 
harmonious subordination to the rest, and all 
conjointly producing a result which no single 
series of them acting separately, could possibly 
have effected. 
In PI. 50 I have selected from Goldfuss, 
Parkinson, and Miller, details of the structure 
of the body and upper extremities of Encrinites 
Moniliformis, or Lily Encrinite, in which the 
component parts are indicated by letters, ex- 
plained in the annexed note ; and I must refer 
my readers to these authors for minute descrip- 
