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in the present specimen. In the lily encrinite, as figured by 

 Parkinson (Jig. 15.) 9 the vertebral column is of the same 



bulk throughout, without any alteration in its size as it ap- 

 proaches the point of attachment to the pelvis ; but in the 

 pear encrinite (fgs. 16 and 17.)> the vertebrae are seen gra- 



dually increasing in diameter, until they are finally attached 

 to the bones of the pelvis. In these specimens, however (as 

 figured by Parkinson, and in several specimens in my own 



