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which are no longer in existence. This subject is one abound- 

 ing with materials for speculation, but, as I have treated of 

 it at some length in other quarters, I will not enter further 

 upon it on the present occasion. 



The Voluta Lamberti is found in the coral rocks of Aldbo- 

 rough and Orford, and in the red crag along the southern 

 coast of Suffolk and Essex, but it has not yet been discovered 

 in that part of the upper deposit which extends from Thorp 

 (near Aldborough) into the county of Norfolk, and in which 

 are deposited the remains of mammiferous animals. The 

 woodcut at p. 37. is engraved from a drawing made by Mr. 

 James de C. Sowerby, of a particularly fine specimen in my 

 possession, and which was procured from the beach at Felixtow. 

 This individual, in common with several others from the same 

 locality, exhibits, upon those portions of the shell not exposed 

 to attrition, numerous well defined sharp transverse stria?, a 

 character which has not hitherto been noticed, and which I 

 have been unable to detect in those specimens which occur 

 in the crag, although I have examined them in all stages of 

 growth. 



I know of only one fossil species which in its general aspect 

 resembles this volute, and that is a shell found at Touraine, 

 and in some other Continental tertiary deposits, and which is 

 probably the one figured by Brocchi. This latter may be 

 readily distinguished from Lamberti, by the thickness of its 

 shell, and the different position of the folds of the columella, 

 and from the outer lip being slightly everted. 



Mr. Gray is of opinion that there are some characters about 

 Voluta Lamberti so nearly allied to the genus Fasciolaria as 

 to induce him to separate it from the true volutes. The oc- 

 currence of a tropical form among so many species of cold or 

 temperate climates had led Dr. Beck to doubt the existence 

 of the fact, until he saw the specimens of this fossil in my 

 collection ; and, therefore, Mr. Gray's, conjecture is one of 

 considerable importance ; for, if correct, we are consequently 

 unacquainted with its inhabitant. 



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