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Excerpt from A Monograph of the British Spongiadae, Vol. 1 The British sponges alone have afforded me a very exten sive series of new and beautiful forms of organization, and as my knowledge of the number of the Species and the peculi arities of their structure became extended, I quickly became aware that the list of our native species contained represent atives of nearly every known genus of these animals, and that such an extension of my investigation as that published in the present volume became absolutely necessary to com plete the terminology not only of the British species already described, but those also which the future researches of naturalists may make known to us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
