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&c, agree in size or number. The specimen is also described 

 as being embedded in mountain limestone; whereas the lily 

 encrinite belongs to the muschelkalk of the oolitic series, 

 which does not appertain to the British strata. The idea 

 must therefore be abandoned; and we must endeavour to 

 find some other encrinital remain to which Mr. Conway's 

 specimen bears a closer analogy than to that to which it has 

 been referred. On looking to Miller's interesting work 

 on the Crinoidea, we find, in his Cyathocrinites planus, a 

 greater degree of resemblance; and, on reference to Mr. 

 Cumberland's figure, in Vol. V. of the Geological Trans- 

 actions, t, 3. (which, I presume, is synonymous), we see a 

 still closer affinity to Mr. Conway's figure. The localities 

 cited by Miller of the Cyathocrinites planus is the magnesian 

 limestone of Clevedon, Somersetshire; and Humbleton, 

 Northumberland. Mr. Cumberland's specimen is also from 

 Clevedon. I would recommend Mr. Conway to take an early 

 opportunity of comparing his specimens with Mr. Cum- 

 berland's beautiful figures, as here referred to ; and to favour 

 us with a statement of the result. — Samuel Woodward. Nor- 

 wich, March 8. 1833. 



P. S. Is not the scaly portion" an extraneous substance, 

 such as a Caryophyllum ? This can be determined only by 

 a close examination of the specimen. — S. W. 

 



Art. II. Queries and Answers. 



Mr. Waterton solicited to explain the Frontispiece to his 

 Wanderings in South America. — Sir, Having read with great 

 satisfaction and instruction Mr. Waterton's Wanderings in 

 South America, ltake the liberty of addressing myself, shortly, 

 to you respecting them. One or two matters in this delight- 

 fully entertaining work, have, I dare say, puzzled several of its 

 readers to understand. In hopes that, through your widely 

 circulating scientific Magazine of Natural History meeting the 

 eye of the kind-hearted benevolent wanderer, some of these 

 matters may be better explained, I take the liberty of re- 

 questing you to insert the following observations in it. None 

 can peruse the Wanderings, without being sometimes startled 

 at the daring, hairbreadth escapes of the author ; and, when 

 he fancies a miracle to be almost necessary to his safety, he 

 is delighted that the dauntless adventurer escapes scathless 

 from the fang of the serpent, and the jaw of the cayman. 

 Many I have heard disbelieve the detail of some of these ad- 

 ventures ; but from what I have learned from the most intimate 

 friends of Mr Waterton, that, from his earliest youth, he was 



