A pictorial atlas of fossil remains, consisting of coloured illustrations selected from Parkinson's "Organic remains of a former world," and Artis's "Antediluvian phytology." . ded by a whiteband, which is probably the remains of the cortical or external tissue of the originalzoophyte. I have seen many transverse sections in which the central mass waseither of a pink or purple colour, and encircled by a white zone, in the squared flintsof the walls of churches and other ancient edifices in Sussex. Medals of Creation, p. 237. 2 Polished specimens of the pebbles of the Isle of Wight, exhibiting


A pictorial atlas of fossil remains, consisting of coloured illustrations selected from Parkinson's "Organic remains of a former world," and Artis's "Antediluvian phytology." . ded by a whiteband, which is probably the remains of the cortical or external tissue of the originalzoophyte. I have seen many transverse sections in which the central mass waseither of a pink or purple colour, and encircled by a white zone, in the squared flintsof the walls of churches and other ancient edifices in Sussex. Medals of Creation, p. 237. 2 Polished specimens of the pebbles of the Isle of Wight, exhibiting sections of the Choanites, Aentriculites, &e., may beobtained of Mr. Fowlestone, Lapidary, i, Aictoria Arcade, Ryde; who also has generally on sale a good series of the fossilsof the Island. The minute organisms that occur in flints, many of which are highly interesting objects when seen by trans-mitted light under a good microscope, can be procured of Mr. Topping, that well-known preparer of microscopic objects,New Winchester Street, Pentonville Hill; and fossil infusorial earths, &o. in great perfection of Jlr. Poulton, MicroscopicArtist, Reading, Berks. ?i5.


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