A history of the British sea-anemones and corals . 4> IN COLOURS Br BOLOCERA TUEDI/E. 3 AIPTASIA COUCHII ANTHEA CEREUS A 3ACARTIA COCCINEA 5 . S . T R 0 0 L 0 D Y T E S. (r / c ACTINOLOGIA BRITANNICA. A HISTORY OF THE BKITISH SEA-ANEMONES AND C O E A L S. WITH COLOUEED FIGURES OF THE P^ECIESAND PRINCIPAL VARIETIES. BY PHILIP HENRY GOSSE, LONDON:VAN VOORST, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1860. PREFACE. In writing the following pages, I hare laboured to producesuch a History of the British Sea-Anemones and Corals, as astudent can work with. Having often painfully felt in studyingworks sim
A history of the British sea-anemones and corals . 4> IN COLOURS Br BOLOCERA TUEDI/E. 3 AIPTASIA COUCHII ANTHEA CEREUS A 3ACARTIA COCCINEA 5 . S . T R 0 0 L 0 D Y T E S. (r / c ACTINOLOGIA BRITANNICA. A HISTORY OF THE BKITISH SEA-ANEMONES AND C O E A L S. WITH COLOUEED FIGURES OF THE P^ECIESAND PRINCIPAL VARIETIES. BY PHILIP HENRY GOSSE, LONDON:VAN VOORST, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1860. PREFACE. In writing the following pages, I hare laboured to producesuch a History of the British Sea-Anemones and Corals, as astudent can work with. Having often painfully felt in studyingworks similar to the present, the evil of the vagueness and con-fusion that too frequently mark the descriptive portions, I haveendeavoured to draw up the characters of the animals which Idescribe, with distinctive precision, and with order. It is said ofMontagu that, in describing animals, he constantly wrote as if hehad expected that the next day would bring to light some newspecies closely resembling the one before him ; and therefore hisdiagnosis canhistoryofbritish00goss
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