A History of British Starfishes: And Other Animals of the Class Echinodermata (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from A History of British Starfishes: And Other Animals of the Class Echinodermata

The other Memoir to which I must allude is one by Mr. Gray on the Starfishes, which he calls the class Hypostoma.

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Excerpt from A History of British Starfishes: And Other Animals of the Class Echinodermata

This History of the British species of a much neglected but beautiful and interesting class of animals originated in an attempt to revise the characters of such Starfishes as inhabit the Irish Sea, and to introduce the generic arrangements proposed by Professor Agassiz, which I laid before the Wernerian Society, with the approbation of its distinguished president, Professor Jameson, and which was published in 1839 in the eighth volume of its Transactions. Without the kind assistance of my brother naturalists, the materials for the following pages could not, however, have been gathered. To my friend Mr. John Goodsir I am especially indebted for assistance and advice. From Mr. Thompson of Belfast a great portion of my information has been derived; and the materials which he had been collecting for several years, in order to prepare an account of the Irish species, were most liberally, and without reserve, placed in my hands, as were, also, with like kindness, Mr. Robert Ball's collections for an account of the Echinidæ.

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