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At Nanterre, near Paris, a fossil fish was obtained, 

 nearly resembling coryphena chrysurus, Lacepede ; another 

 was found, by Faujas St. Fond, in the mountain on which 

 the castle of Rochesauvre is built, which has been ascer- 

 tained to be idus, pinna ani radiis 13, ventre piano. Among 

 these fossils are fish whose analogues live in the Indian 

 Ocean, and in diiFerent seas of Africa, and of North and 

 South America. M. Bozza, the proprietor of an immense 

 collection of fossil fish collected from Monte Bolca, observes, 

 that he possessed many whose living analogues were not 

 known, and that, among more than a hundred which are 

 known, there were four which are peculiar to the sea of 

 Otaheite ; polynemus plebeius^ or emoi of the Otaheiteans ; 

 gohius striatus, or jaipoa ; gobius occellaris ; and chcefodon 

 triostegus. 



The remains of the following fish have been ascertained 

 to exist in a mineralized state in different parts of Italy, 

 France, and Germany : — the pike, carp, perch, eel, sea- 

 scorpion, mackarel, turbot, sword-fish, lod, scarus, chetodon, 

 batistes, gobius, Jistularia of Japan, and pegasus of Brazil. 

 This list may be expected to be soon considerably extended, 

 since some of the French naturalists, it is understood, are 

 engaged in making the necessary investigations for enabling 

 them to distinguish between those remains of this class of 

 animals which are referrible to known and to unknown genera. 



In the neighbourhood of Naples, in the Vincentine, at 

 Pappenheim and Oeningen, near the lake of Constance, at 

 Aix in Provence, and in numerous other places on the con- 

 tinent, the remains of fishes are found either in limestone, 

 or in a yellowish or fawn-coloured calcareous fissile stone. 

 At Eisleben, and in Mansfeldt, in Upper Saxony, fishes are 

 found in a black schist ; and the metallic appearance which 

 they derive from the pyrites, with which they are imbued, 

 renders them frequently very splendid and beautiful 

 specimens. 



