PREFACE. 
IV 
vious ; students generally confine their attention 
to one or more divisions, each thereby become* 
more thoroughly investigated and the whole 
better understood. Some departments, however 
either from their brilliancy or easiness of access* 
have always been greater favourites and ha' e 
had more cultivators than others. In tln s 
country, Birds and Insects have had, with the 
exception of Botany, more followers than aU 
the others together, while the Zoophytes hav e 
suffered a very general neglect. In the ftd' 
lowing pages an attempt is made to rescue 
them from this obscurity, or such of them a5 
are found upon the Cornish coast ; they are, d 
is true, very unobtrusive, and compared vvid 1 
similar productions from warmer seas, insign 1 ' 
ficant ; yet they are interesting, as being ou* 
representatives of creatures which have acted 
and are still acting, an important part in th e 
mutations of the earth’s surface. 
The species here described are ascertained 
to be Cornish from personal inspection and 
researches both in deep water and near tb 6 
shores. The list will be found very exteU' 
sive, and to embrace nearly all that ha' 6 
hitherto been recognized as British, beside many 
others quite new and described here for tb 6 
first time. 
In these researches I have been greatly a ^, 
sisted by my indefatigable friend Mr. Peach 
Goran, w ho has spared neither time nor trouu 
