950 THE MEDALS OF OREATION. Cuap. VU. 
ings or cells, for these are so symmetrical, and disposed with 
so much regularity, as to present a closer analogy to the 
polype-cells of a coral, than to the large pores of a sponge. 
The doubts expressed by many eminent observers as to the 
correctness of this view, have induced me to insert this notice 
in the present section; leaving the true affinities of these 
organisms to be determined by future observers. Possibly 
we have in these fossils the relics of a tribe of zoophytes of 
an extinct type, that formed a connecting link between the 
porifera and the polypifera ; however this may be, I will 
venture to affirm that no one who had seen the infinitely 
varied examples of these, fossils that I have, would for a 
moment confound them, as some naturalists have done, with 
the Scyphiee, and other simple amorphozoa. 
Potyre In Fuint. Lign. 84.—I1 will 
here notice an exceedingly minute and 
interesting object, discovered by the 
Rev. J. B. Reade, in a flint containing 
vestiges of a Ventriculite, and which 
may possibly belong to this tribe of 
zoophytes. It must however be re- 
marked, that there was nothing to show 
the collocation was not accidental. The 
drawing with which Mr. Reade favoured 
me, is engraved Lign. 84. This object 
is unmistakeably a polype-cell, with 
some of the integument of the animal 
Lian. 84. protruding, in the form of a shrivelled 
A CORAL-POLYPE IN . m ‘Leds 4 
ale tube. The possibility of soft animal 
x 500 diameters, tissues being preserved in flint, will not 
Seen by transmitted light. :; : 
(Seen by ansmilted HII) vow admit, of question, as we shall show 
when treating of the Foraminifera. The record of this fact 
may lead to the discovery of other fossils of a like nature. 
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