Excerpt from A History of the British Marine Polyzoa, Vol. 1 of 2Our attempts at the Classification of the Polyzoa must still, I fear, be in large measure provisional, but it is certainly time that the purely artificial methods of the past should give place to a system aiming, at least, to represent the natural relation ships.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.