nature o f your difcoveries, and the confequences that flow from
them; because it is not in my power, nor perhaps in any one’s, to explain
them with as much clearnefs and diftin&nefs as you yourfelf
have done. Therefore, inftead o f making any weak efforts to do fo,
I will only refer Gentlemen to the perufal -of your own accounts of
them, in thofe communications which the Committee o f Papers
have judged moft defervedly worthy o f a place amongft the Tranfac-
tions o f this Society.
It only remains, therefore, to put the Medal into your hands, as
the moft public mark that the Council çan give o f their high fenfe
o f the great accefiion which natural knowledge has received from
your moft ingenious and accurate inveftigations.
A N
A R R A N G E M E N T
<3 F
Z O O P H Y T E S .
I. A C T I N I A.
Animal Je affigens baß-,
cdrnofvm, oblongum, te-
res, contraBile, vivipa-
rum.
Os terminale, dilata-
bile, tentaculis cincium.
Apertura^r<«/<?r os nulla.
Obf. E x bafi tubulofa
repente interdum proliféra
.
I
called AElinia fociata,
A N I M A L F L O W E R .
This animal fixes itfelf by
itsbafej it is of a flefhy fub-
ftance, and a roundifh oblong
form, capable of extending
or contracting itfe lf;
it produces its young alive
through its mouth.
The mouth, which is in
the middle of the upper part,
is capable of great extenfion,
and is furrounded by rows of
claws, or tentacles.
It has no other opening but
that.
Obf. It fometimes produces
its young from a creepinOg
tubulous bafe.
I have fome doubt, whether the animal, which I have
or Clufter’d animal flower, pro-
B perly