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spotted, as from a partial stagnation of the blood in them. 

 There are two rows of papulous feet on each side, armed 

 with a few short unequal bristles, and, at least in a great 

 measure, retractile. The ventral surface is flattened, marked 

 in the middle, from the deeper colour apparently of a large 

 vessel or intestine, which runs from one extremity to the other ; 

 anus terminal. 



In the 13th volume of Professor Jameson's Edinburgh 

 Philosophical Journal, p. 2 L 9., I have made two species of this 

 worm ; but the characters on which their distinction rests are 

 obviously too slight even to constitute well marked varieties. 

 I have therefore dropped the name of Cirratulus fuscescens 

 and flavescens, and have here adopted one which, it has been 

 suggested, is more significant and more characteristic of an 

 admirer of Linnaeus. 



Berwick upon Tweed, Sept. 18. 1832. 



Art. VII. Notice of a Lily Encrinite lately found in Mountain 

 Limestone, brought from the Neighbourhood of Cork, Ireland, 

 By C. Conway, Esq. 



Sir, 

 A few days back, a vessel brought into the port of New- 

 port, from Cork, a quantity of limestone (mountain) as ballast; 

 and, presuming there might be some fossils in it, I requested 

 a mineral dealer, then in the neighbourhood, to cast his eye 

 upon it as it was discharged, to see if there was not something 

 in it worth preserving. In a day or two I had my attention 

 amply rewarded by being furnished with a specimen of the 

 lily encrinite ; a drawing of which I herewith forward you, of 

 the natural size. (fg. 14.) I am not certain whether I am 

 right or wrong in my conjecture, when I fancy this to be a 

 new acquisition. Perhaps you will have the goodness to 

 inform me whether or not the lily encrinite has before been 

 discovered in the British strata. Parkinson says (Organic 

 Remains? vol. ii. p. 189.), " There is no part of the world in 

 which this species has hitherto been known decidedly to exist, 

 but in some of the states of Germany;" and in his Outlines of 

 Oryctology, published ten years later than the former work 

 (1830), he says, p. 96., " No remains of this species have 

 been found in this island." In Conybeare and Phillips's 

 Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales, I can find 

 nothing satisfactory upon the subject. Not being in the 

 neighbourhood of any scientific institution or public library, 



