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REPORT on the POLYZOA of PUFFIN ISLAND. 
By JosrpH Lomas, Assoc. N\S.S., 
SPECIAL LECTURER ON GEOLOGY IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LIVERPOOL. 
[Read 12th November, 1887. ] 
THE shores of Anglesey have long been famous for their 
zoophytal Fauna. LEllis, in his “ Essay towards a Natural 
History of the Corallines” (1755), speaks of receiving 
‘“Zoophytes”’ from Anglesey in 1751, and it was most 
probable that their animal nature was discovered by him 
whilst examining these specimens. 
Professor E. Forbes, F.R.S., in the British Association 
Reports for 1850, gives the following ten species of 
Polyzoa as occurring on the Anglesey coasts :— 
Diastopora obelia. 
Crisia sp. 
Hippothoa sp. 
Cellepora pumieosa. 
Lepralia sp. 
Flustra foliacea. 
Flustra coriacea, Johnst., 
(= Membrampora hexagona, Busk.) 
Salicornaria farciminoides. 
Alcyonidium sp. 
Sertularia lendigera. 
It is worthy of remark that Forbes, in his reports, 
always gives the depths at which the specimens were 
found, and also the character of the bottom. The latter 
point is often omitted in reports, though it is of great 
importance in explaining peculiarities of distribution. 
The L.M.R.C. have made several visits to the Island 
