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THIS revision of the British sea anemones by Prof. Haddon, will be welcomed by all students of this interesting group. We know a good deal already of our native species, thanks to the writings of Sir J. Dalzell, Dr. George Johnston, and P. H. Gosse; and the last-mentioned author, in his well-known “History of the British Sea Anemones and Corals” (1858), succeeded, by the aid of chromo-lithography, in giving very fair representations in colours of the living forms. But the “Report on the Actiniaria of the Challenger,” by Richard Hertwig, in which he sought by anatomical investigations to establish a scientific classification of the group, opened up a new standpoint for the study of these forms, of which Prof. Haddon has most wisely and energetically availed himself; and in this first part of his revision we have a most excellent monograph of the Chondractininæ, and studies of several genera, which may be regarded as more or less representing the various stages in the evolution of the typical hexamerous Actiniæ. These latter belong to the families Edwardsidæ and Halcampidæ. There is also a description of the remarkable Gonactinia prolifera, Sars, some notes on Zoantheæ and on the development of Actiniæ.
Revision of the British Actiniæ.
By Prof. A. C. Haddon. Part 1. (London: Williams and Norgate, 1889.)
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Revision of the British Actiniæ. Nature 40, 390 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040390c0
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