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REPORTS Third Report of the Committee appointed for the Purpose of Reporting on Fossil Polyzoa (Jurassic Species—British Area only). Drawn up by Mr. Vine (Secretary).—A partial examination of the Jurassic Polyzoa was made by Goldfuss (Petrifacta Germaniæ, 1826-33), but the author is not aware whether he had any English examples of the types described and figured by him. With the exception of the Aitlopora, all the types are foreign, and he does not find any reference to British species in his text. In the “Geological Manual” of De la Beche, published in 1832, a list of species is given, but only two are named as found within the British area—Cellipora orbiailata, Goldfuss (= Berenices, Lamouroux), and Millepora straminea, Phill. In the “Geology of York,” ed. 1835, Phillips gave three species only—M. straminea, Cellarea Smithii (Hippothoa (?), Morris's Catalogue), Scarborough, and an undescribed Retepora (?). When, in 1843, Prof. Morris published his “Catalogue of British Fossils,” there was a large increase of species, but many of these had not been thoroughly worked. In 1854, Jules Haiti e examined critically the whole of the Jurassic Polyzoa then known, and many English naturalists furnished him with material from their own cabinets so as to enable him to correlate British and foreign types. Lamouronx, Defranc, Milne Edwards, Michelen, Blainville, and D'Orbigny have published descriptions of Jurassic species, and a list of these, so far as ossible, will be given at the end of this report. Prof. D. Braun, by the publication of his paper on species found in the neighbourhood of Metz, added materially to our knowledge of French Jurassic types, and later foreign authors, Dumortier Waagen and others, have increased the number of described species. Since the publication of Haime's work, much valuable material has been accumulating in the cabinets of collectors, and Mr. Vine willingly draw up a monograph if desired to do so. In the meantime he offers, in the following report, a rather compact analysis of genera and species known by name or otherwise to the palæontologist.
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The British Association . Nature 26, 486–496 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/026486a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/026486a0