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with the microscope, he was unable to discover the fissure, which, in 

 the recent stella, is always observahle. He thinks, therefore, that 

 these bodies must either belong to a species of stelloe entirely unknown 

 to us, or must be merely the casts of minute stellae. 



Plate I. Fig. 16, is a sketch of a fossil stella figured by Baier, Moni- 

 ment. Rer. Petrif. Tab. vir. Fig. 6, which he considers as referable to 

 small coriaceous pentapetalous sea-stars. 



I am happy in being able to communicate the observations of the 

 late Mr. Strange, on a minute species of stellae found at Verona, being 

 in possession not only of an engraving of two species of this fossil which 

 was executed for that gentleman by Antonius Gregori, and which are 

 here copied, Plate I. Fig. 17 and 18, but of the manuscript account 

 of the fossils drawn up by Mr. Strange himself. 



Plate I. Fig. 18. " Stella marina fossil is minima, pentagona, stella 

 pentaradiata in superficie posita, more echinanthi, et echino-spatagi, 

 centro stellae perfecte rotundato ; radiis ferme ovalibus : superficie cor- 

 poris sublaevlgata ; colorem priebens, qui ex albo in flavescentem leviter 

 vergit. Substantia gaudet calcarea. Invenitur frequens ad Castrum Divi 

 Faelicis intra urbem Veronae : naturalem autem invenimus in littore Nea- 

 politano ad Cumas Baiarum." 



Plate I. Fig. 17. " Stella marina fossil is, minima, pentagona, stella 

 pentaradiata in superficie posita, centro stellse perfecte rotundo ; radiis 

 autem ovato-acuminatis ; superficie corporis laevigata, colorem exhibens 

 alboflavum. Eadem substantia gaudet calcarea, et in eodem loco inve- 

 nitur cum altera specie supra descripta." 



" Species hasce Stellas marinae fossilis pentagonae saepius vidi Romae, Flo- 

 rentise, Bononiae, Veronae, Augustae Taurinorum, et alioquin in quam 

 plurimis Italorum musaeis : nihilominus a nemine, quod sciam, hucus- 

 que descriptae sunt. Inveniuntur tantummodo ad Castrum Divi Faelicis, 

 intra urbem Veronae, ut supradixi, in caeteris Italiae provinciisconchy- 

 liferis nondum vidi." 



It is with much pleasure I am also able to place before you another 



