Title: Actinologia britannica : a history of the British sea-anemones and corals
Abstract: and notwithstanding the value of this work in many points, the almost utter worthless- ness of their specific characters has been often confessed.That excellent zoologist lived on a coast where the Anemones are feebly represented ; and hence his personal acquaintance with species was very small, or the result woidd doubtless have been different