A history of British star-fishes, and other animals of the class Echinodermata . 71 THE TRUE asteriam:, OR CIRRIJIGRADE ECHINODERMATA. The beauty and symmetry of the true Starfishes at-tracted the attention of such observers of nature as dweltby the sea-side from a very early period, and several kindsare noticed by ancient authors. No separate treatise,however, was devoted to their history until the year 1733,when a splendid folio volume, containing- figures of a greatmany species and varieties, with short descriptions attached,was published by John Henry Link, an apothecary atLei
A history of British star-fishes, and other animals of the class Echinodermata . 71 THE TRUE asteriam:, OR CIRRIJIGRADE ECHINODERMATA. The beauty and symmetry of the true Starfishes at-tracted the attention of such observers of nature as dweltby the sea-side from a very early period, and several kindsare noticed by ancient authors. No separate treatise,however, was devoted to their history until the year 1733,when a splendid folio volume, containing- figures of a greatmany species and varieties, with short descriptions attached,was published by John Henry Link, an apothecary atLeipsic. Link was a fellow of the Royal Society, andstudied botany as well as zoology. He wrote an accountof the coffee-tree; and Micheli dedicated a genus of plantsto him in honour of his botanical acquirements. He died 72 ASTERIAD^E. in 1734, in the sixty-sixth year of his age. His work isa very valuable one, chiefly on account of the figures itcontains, which have been often copied, and which havein fact supplied most of the representations of Starfishesextant. Link distributed the Starfishes under m
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