250 Notices of Ancient and Modern Greece. 



PLATE 8. 



Pig. 1. Gryphcea romer^ natural size. 



2. Lateral view of a smaller specimen. 



3. Ammonites Vanuxemi. Natural size. 



4. Back view of the same specimen. 



5. Pecfen qtdnque costaius. Figured from a cast. Fragments of shells are 



abundant, but too imperfect to figure. 



6. Scalaria annnlata. Vide page 281, Vol. XVII. I venture to give thia 



shell a specific designation. (Jour. Acad. Vol. VI.) 



7. AnancTiytes cincius. Vide first species of this synopsis, p. 287. 



8. Ananchyies cruciferus. 



9. Ananchytesfirnbriatus- , . 



10. Spatangus cor marinum? Parkinson. Vide first species of the synopsis. 



11. Spatangus stclla. 



12. Plateof amammilated -£JcAintis. 



13. Spine of an Ediinus. 



,-■ > Terehratula Sayi, 



16. Terehratula Harlani. 



17. Terehratula fragilis. 



18. Vermetus rotula, (vide Spirorbis ? page 282.) I have now no hesitation in 



considering this fossil a Vermetus as defined by Sowerby. 



20* \ Ostrea fulcata : a very variable species. 



21. CucuUcE a vulgaris. A cast only is figured, on account of the imperfec- 



tion of the shells. 



22. Ostrea crista-galii ? 



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The Scaphites Cuvieri, Exogyra costata, Grypliea convexa and 

 G. mutabills, are so accurately figured in the sixth Vol. of the Jour- 

 nal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, that I have thought it un- 

 necessary to add them to the annexed plates. 



Art. V. — JVotices of 



Editor^ from Dr. I 

 Dec. 20, 1S29. 



REMARKS. 



Dr. Howe is so well known to all lovers and admirers of ancient 

 and 'modern Greece, that any communication from him is sure of 

 being eagerly read. In the hospital and in the field, he has proved 

 himself, in her darkest hours, the devoted friend of Greece ; and his 

 letters have justly commanded entire confidence, especially on the part 

 of those who have watched with intense solicitude, the vicissitudes 

 of a struggle, to w^hich even Grecian warfare presents no parallel- 



