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the most important specimens. The locality being several miles 
distant from any station or landing, it was necessary after crating 
Fig. 57.—Slab filled with remains of the very large Crinoid Scyphocrinus 
elegans. Found near Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Photograph by Springer. 
the slabs to construct a chute by which they were lowered to the 
river's level from a rock levee about 35 feet in height. This was 
