Note 291 — Chapter VIII

The researches of J. V. Thompson, Esq. first brought to light these interesting facts in the Natural History of the Comatula; this eminent naturalist first observed pedunculated Comatulæ in the Cove of Cork. When this discovery was first made known to me, I suspected that the Marsupite might have been pedunculated when young; but as very small specimens of this Crinoid are equally free from all traces of a stem as the adult, I was led to relinquish that opinion: still the collector, when searching for Crinoidean remains, should bear in mind the possibility of this having been the case.