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annual or occasional »W he denominates Annals 
of Nature, or Annual S aopels Zot new Genera, and species 
of animals, plants, &c. discovered in North America. This 
work is established Aa Tr for his own discoveries and 
for those of his friends. His first number contains sixteen 
ages, and is occupied upon animals under the classes suck- 
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9. Fossil Fish. 
On page 222 of this volume mention is made of the fossil 
fish, found at Sunderland, Mass. rahe — Edward Hitchcock. 
; gentleman at our request, has cat d this agree 2 
to state, on the authority of a letter from him, dated . 
9, 1821, that age or sixty specimens of fossil fish have hece 
discovered a underland, by those 
Hiicheock,» we subjoin the catalogue pe oer with the letter, 
as this will impart some valuable information. —Ep. 
