THE TRANSLATORS PREFACE. 
The following selection was originally designed for 
the accommodation of friends, whose leisure was too 
much engrossed by kindred and social claims, to 
study a history which, though interesting in the ex- 
treme, was written in a foreign language, and replete 
with scientific terms. 
The Translator had fewer ties, and anxious that her 
friends should share the increasing pleasure she felt 
in perusing M. Lamouroux’s “ Histoire des Polypiers 
Corallig&nes Flexibles,” she consulted among scienti- 
