Paper, 'Anatomical description of a species of asteroid polypes, probably forming the type of a new genus of Alcyonidae' by John Denis Macdonald Macdonald shares observations from Conway Reef [Fiji] of a 'beautiful branched asteroid zoophyte'. Includes one page of figures of the species identified by Macdonald. Subject: Marine organisms Received 13 January 1857. Read 12 March 1857. Communicated by Captain [Henry Mangles] Denham. A version of this paper was published in volume 8 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Anatomical description of a species of asteroid polypes, probably forming the type of a new genus of alcyonidæ'. A version of this paper was published by Macdonald in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Macdonald, John Denis. 'Anatomical description of a species of asteroid polypes, probably forming the type of a new genus of Alcyonidœ.' The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, volume 19, number 113 (1857), p. 391. April 1856