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of " funnels " and tubes penetrating the mass (Figs. 33, 

 34), a confluence of the lamin;e, constituting a porous 

 cortex or limiting structure. Specimens of this kind 

 were figured in 1888, and I was enabled to add to the 



Fig. 34. -Section of the Ihue, of a spciiinen of Eozoon. 



This specimen sliovvs an osculiforin, cylindrical funnel, cut in such a manner 

 as to sliow its reticulated 7tuilt ami the dcsceTit of the l.iniina; luwanl it. Two-thirds 

 of natural size. From a phi)U)^ra|ih. Col. ('ai|ii'nter, also iir Rcdpath Museum. 



[This illustration (from Prof, i'rcstwicli's " (lecjo^jy," vol. ii. p. ai) has been 

 courteously lent by the Clarendon Press, Oxford,] 



characters of the species that the original and proper 

 form was " broadly turbinate with a depression or 

 cavity above, and occasionally with oscula or pits 

 penetrating the mass." The great flattened masses 

 thus seemed to rei)resent confluent or overgrown 



