. The natural history of Selborne [microform]. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. W^dCTiead LETTER III.' to the same. IHE )ssil-shells of this district, and sorts of stont, such as have fallen within my observation, must not be passed over in silence. And first 1 must mention, as a great curiosity, a specimen that was ploughed up in the chalky fields, near the side of the Down, and given to me for the singularity of its appearance, which, to an incurious eye, seems like a petrified fish of about four inches long, the catdo passing for an head and mouth. It is in reality a bivalve of the Lin
. The natural history of Selborne [microform]. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. W^dCTiead LETTER III.' to the same. IHE )ssil-shells of this district, and sorts of stont, such as have fallen within my observation, must not be passed over in silence. And first 1 must mention, as a great curiosity, a specimen that was ploughed up in the chalky fields, near the side of the Down, and given to me for the singularity of its appearance, which, to an incurious eye, seems like a petrified fish of about four inches long, the catdo passing for an head and mouth. It is in reality a bivalve of the Linnaean genus of Mytilus, and the species of Crista Galli; ^ * This letter on the fossils of Sclborne is clearly a later insertion, and is a sufficiently perfunctory performance.—Ed. ^ White was mistaken in referring this fossil, of which he gives an illustration in the first edition, to the (Mytilus crista-galli of Linnxus. It is in reality Ostraa carinata, a characteristic mollusk of the Greensand.— Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original White, Gilbert, 1720-1793; Allen, Grant, 1848-1899. London; New York : J. Lane
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