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far, and to be unduly prejudiced by such extreme expressions of 

 opinion as those of Kathorst and his followers. In the present 

 instance I do not wish to make a definite assertion that these two 

 species of Wealden fossils are undoubtedly fragments of Chondrus 

 and Catenella, but merely indicate such points of agreement as 

 appear to exist. 



These pieces of Algites catenelloides, Mr. Murray reminds me, 

 may also be compared to small Laurencias. 



V. 2857. PI. I. Figs. 1 and 2. Several pieces of the branched 

 thallus close to the specimens of Algites valdensis. 



V. 2857i and V. 28570. A few fragments associated with 

 A. valdensis on the same piece of rock. Near Hastings. 



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