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GEOLOGY OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT. 



In Hint, such specimens are by no means rare, 

 and from the semi-transparency of that mineral 

 are easily detected. The annexed figure (lign. 12) 

 represents the body of a rotalia in its shell (highly 

 magnified) imbedded in an atom of flint, in which 

 there is another example, and some other organ- 

 isms. The shells of Rotaliee in the chalk also 



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THE SHKll OF A ROTALIA; 



Containing the fossilized remains of the body of the animal ; in 

 flint; highly magnified,'' 



contain the body of the animal ; and by dissolving 

 the chalk and the shell in weak hydrochloric acid, 



* Specimens of the Rotaliae, Xanthidia, and other minute fossil organisms 

 ef the chalk and flint may he obtained of Mr. Topping, the well-known 

 microscopic artist. No. I, York Place, Pentouville Hill, London. See "Medals 

 of Creation," vol. i. pp. 78, 244, lor instructions how to prepare fossils for the 

 microscope. 



