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indebted, affirms that of the many hundred fossil specimens submitted 

 to his examination, only one can be identified with any living fish. The 

 ichthyolites which form this remarkable exception are found in nodules 

 of indurated clay, at the Sukkertop, on the West Coast of Greenland, 

 and are identical with the living MaMotus villosus, or Angmarset, a 



small fish allied to the Smelts, of which there is but one species, an inha- 

 bitant of the northern seas. These fossils are supposed to be of very 

 recent formation; there is a specimen in the last division of Case D. 1 



1 See " Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles," tome v. PI. LX. for 

 figures of the skeleton of the recent Mallotus, and the fossil remains. 



