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This shell is stated to occur on the coasts of Fuh-kien and iseo-62. 

 Kwantung. Messrs. Cuming and Lovell Eeeve, who have 

 examined it, concur in referring it to Haliotis funebris, a New 

 Holland species, figured by the latter gentleman in his beautiful 

 Conchologia Iconica, sect. Haliotis, pi. xii. 38. 



^pff JSL 



Wl ft Lung-lcwtih ; literally, Dragon's Bones; Lftm cti, Lung-kw&h. 

 Cleyer, Med. Simp., No. 252 ; Pun-tsaou, Fig. 888. 



This commodity is sold in the Chinese shops in irregular pieces 

 of a few ounces weight, curiously covered with paper and marked 

 with a stamp. Upon placing a thin slice of it under the micro- 

 scope its true nature is revealed, and it is proved to be fossil 

 ivory. Many imaginary virtues are attributed to it, as well as 

 to the following. y 



j||f ^ Lung-che; literally, Dragon's Teeth. These also Lung-che. 

 are fossil, and obtained, according to the Chinese, in the north- 

 western provinces of Shen-si and Shan-si. Mr. G. R. Waterhouse, 

 of the British Museum, who has, at my request, been good enough 

 to examine a considerable number of specimens, is able to dis- 

 tinguish among them the following : molars of the lower jaw of 

 Rhinoceros tichorhinus, Cuv.; fragment of tooth of Mastodon; of 

 Eleplias, near E. insignis, F. et C.; many molars of Eqiius, teeth 

 of Hippotherium, comprising molars of both jaws, agreeing 

 perfectly with those of the Hippotherium of Germany and 

 France; an upper molar of a Hippotherium probably distinct 

 from the preceding; portion of an upper jaw, with the four 

 posterior molars, of a ruminant allied to the sheep, but of 

 smaller size : molar teeth of two species of stag ; molar tooth 

 of bear. 1 



;g gpp Shto heae ; Fossil Crabs of the Post- Tertiary Period. SMh heae. 

 Pun-tsaou, Fig. 66. 



A celebrated Chinese medicine mentioned by Kircher, Grosier, 

 Du Halde, Cleyer and others, and supposed to be an antidote to all 

 kinds of poison, as well as to possess innumerable other virtues. 



1 Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins, of Owens College, Manchester, has ascertained 

 that there are caves in Borneo which are extensively worked for teeth for the 

 Chinese market. (Note from H. Woodward, 9, viij., 1870.) 



