Excerpt from An Essay Towards a Natural History of the Corallines: And Other Marine Productions of the Like Kind, Commonly Found on the Coasts of Great Britain and Ireland; To Which Is Added the Description of a Large Marine Polype Taken Near the North Pole, by the Whale-Fishers, in the Summer 1753 Thefe were regularly difpofed in four Pic'tures, which I had the Honour to produce before the Royal Society, about jane I7 5 2, with a Defcription of their Contents, as they then appeared to me. 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.