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XI. Description of some Fossil Shells found in Hampshire. 

 By William Pilkington, Esq. F.A.S. # L.S. 



Read May 3, 1803. 



On looking over the excellent collection of Hampshire Fossil 

 Shells made by the indefatigable hand of my friend Mr. J. T. 

 Swainson, Fellow of this Society, in his frequent visits to Hord- 

 well Cliff, and observing several, which from accurate examination 

 of the plates published by Mr. Brander, and of the descriptions 

 on this subject made by our most celebrated naturalists, appeared 

 never to have been either figured or described, it occurred to me 

 that it might not be thought unacceptable to the Linnean Society 

 if I attempted to lay before them sketches of a few of such of 

 these Fossils (with a specific character of each shell) as presented 

 themselves to be most strikingly different from those heretofore 

 made public. Intelligence, however insignificant in itself, may 

 be of some utility to natural history under the patronage of an 

 institution professedly formed for bringing to light objects the 

 most trifling, as well as those which nature has appeared to be 

 more particularly proud of distinguishing as works of admiration. 



Tab. XL Fig. 1. 

 Voluta (Anglica) testa oblongo-ovata, oblique striata, columella 

 biplicata. 



Testa ^ poll, longa, i- poll. lata. 



Anfractus tres. 



Fig. 2. 



