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I was not content with examining the typical 

 specimens of Eozoon, but had slices prepared of 



Fig. 2%.— Group of Canals in the Supplemental Skeleton of Eozoon. 

 Taken from the specimen in which they were first recognised. (Magnified.) 



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Fig. 2g.— Canals of Eozoon, from same specimen, 



(Highly magnified.) 



every variety of Laurentian Hmestone, of altered 

 limestones from the Cambrian and Silurian, and of 



