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THE ESSEX NATURALIST
Figure production. Specially noteworthy is the pair of all-white
Figures of the Actress, "Kitty Clive", as 'The Fine Lady', and of
the Actor, "Henry Woodward", as 'The Fine Gentleman' in
Garrick's farce, "Lethe". A pair, incised with the date 1750,
may be seen in the Special Exhibition of Bow porcelain which is
now on view in The British Museum.* (Incidentally, several
examples of this famous pair of Bow Figures have passed through
the writer's hands in the past 40-50 years.) If any 'disbelieving
Thomas' doubts the veracity of the assertion that Bow made a
speciality of Figures, he should read Chapter III, "The Old Bow
Figures", in the book Bow Porcelain, by the late Frank Hurlbutt.
The writer desires to make due acknowledgment to the author and
the Publishers of the Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of "Bow
Porcelain" in the British Museum, 1959-60, and to the publishers "Bow
Porcelain" 1926, by the late Frank Hurlbutt; for information he has
gleaned from these publications and which he has incorporated in this
article.
T. L. C. October 1959.
*[1959.]
The Development of. Electra crustulenta (Pallas)
(Polyzoa, Ectoprocta)
By Patricia L. Cook
(British Museum (Natural History))
Contents:
Synopsis
Development of Electra crustulenta (Pallas)
Membranipora seurati (Canu)
Acknowledgments
References
Synopsis. Larvae identified with Cyphonautes barroisi
Lohmann collected from New England Creek, Essex, England, on
17th and 19th March 1959 and 15th March 1960, settled and
developed into ancestrulae recognisable as those of Electra
crustulenta (Pallas). The larvae were fully developed and had
probably been extruded during the preceding week; they settled
readily on glass slides in well aerated water at 11°-15° C. Neither
eggs nor sperm were found in the preserved zooids of adult
colonies of E. crustulenta collected from the Creek, but well
developed intertentacular organs were present in the live material
and in 1960 the final stages of egg extrusion were observed twice.