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regarding them as nearly related to the Sea-firs 

 In support of this it is said that Mr. Hopkinson 

 discovered egg-bearing capsules (Gonothecae) in 

 Graptolites. Nicholson figures what he calls 

 capsules in his monograph of the Graptolitidse 



FIG. 13. Double Graptolite (Diployraptus pristis). 



which he found on some of his specimens. Fossil 

 Graptolites are of course destitute of all traces of 

 the animals which inhabited them, and we possess 

 very little more than the mere stems upon which 

 the polypes were seated. Professor Allman, how- 

 ever, doubts if these objects figured by Nicholson 

 really are egg-cases. He supposes that Graptolites 



