Glagolitic script alphabets, Cyril decided to invent a new script, Glagolitic, which he based on the local dialect of the Slavic tribes from the Byzantine theme of Thessalonica. After the deaths of Cyril and Methodius, the Glagolitic alphabet ceased to be used in Moravia, but their students continued to propagate it in the First Bulgarian Empire, where it was subsequently also displaced by the Cyrillic alphabet. The Glagolitic alphabet was preserved only by the clergy of Croatia to write Church Slavonic until the early 19th century. The name was not created until many centuries after the script's creation, and comes from the
Cyril Crossland papers result from his stay on the Sudan Coast; his large manuscript on the biology and cultivation of the pearl oyster never found publication. The World Register of Marine Species lists 67 marine species named by Crossland, many of which have become synonyms. Sixty marine species were named after him with the epithet "crosslandi". Cyril Crossland Cyril Crossland (1878 – 1943) was an English zoologist. He worked as an assistant to Charles Eliot. He studied several groups of marine animals, especially the Protozoa, Corals and Molluscs. Cyril Crossland (1878-1943) was born in Sheffield, the son of landscape painter James Henry