1. The term “interseptal fossa” is applied by
Mr Gosse to the intermesenteric chamber -
inconveniently, because the term septum
is properly applied in the Actinozoa only
to the radiating plates of a Corallite
2. At p.14. Cyathina smithii is termed a madrepore
- the genus Cyathina belonging to a group
perfectly distinct from the Madreporidae
3. At p.15. Mr. Gosse in endeavouring to prove
that the emission of the thread of the thread-cell or capsule
is the “result of a vital force” affirms that his
<s>the <\s> compression does not “exert the least
direct force upon the walls of the capsule itself”
- nevertheless he goes on to say that
the irritability which he supposes to reside
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- Author
- Philip Henry Gosse
- Reference
- RR/3/119
- Series
- RR
- Date
- 1858
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Referee report by T. H. Huxley on 'Researches on the Poison-Apparatus in the Actiniadae' by Gosse, 1858. From The Royal Society, RR/3/119
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