Staffordshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Westmoreland, and Cumber- 

 land. 



The avowal which I have now to make, cannot but appear extraor- 

 dinary to you : although I have examined several portions of the 

 remains of this animal, from most of the counties which I have enu- 

 merated, I am unable to speak, from my own knowledge, of any other 

 part of its skeleton, than merely its vertebral column, with its lateral 

 appendices ; and, consequently, am unable to speak of the charac- 

 teristic differences of the animals whose remains are found thus widely 

 scattered. A part of a vertebral column of this species of pentacri- 

 nus, found in the mill-stream of Samuel Holbrow, Esq. of Leonard 

 Stanley, in Gloucestershire, is represented, Plate XVII. Figure 8. 

 At the upper part of this column, the terminating vertebra is rather 

 enlarged, and has on each of its sides a considerable depression., 

 which, with that of the adjoining vertebra, forms a pit, evidently fit- 

 ted for the reception of one of its vertebral appendices. One of these 

 vertebral appendices, obtained from this same stream, is shewn, Plate 

 XVII. Fig. 7. 



In the Briaraean Pentacrinite it was seen that the vertebral appen- 

 dices issued from every vertebra, and were as closely set as possible. 

 In this species, on the contrary, they must have been very thinly dis- 

 posed ; since one series only of these lateral processes appears to have 

 belonged to this fragment, which consists of twenty vertebrae. 



That the pentacrini which existed in these parts differed materially 

 from the recent pentacrinus, as well as from the Briaraean pentacri- 

 nite, is rendered almost certain by the fortunate discovery of the fos- 

 sil, Plate XIX. Fig. 3, the representation of which is taken from the 

 Fifty-second volume of the Philosophical Transactions. This fossil 

 is described by Mr. Ellis, as the head of an encrinus, with the rami- 

 fied arms drawn up together. It is said to be in the cabinet of Mr. 

 Francombe, and to have been found at Pyrton-Passage, Gloucester- 



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