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6. Fishes from Dorsetshire, Monte Bolea, Purbeck. A magnifi- 
cent suite of fishes and insects, from Aix, in Provence. Collected by 
Charles Lyell and R. Murchison, Esqrs. in 1828. A beautiful fos- 
sil palm leaf, from Aix, by C. Lyell, Esq. 
7. A series of models, accurately colored from comma of nearly 
seventy of the most interesting fossils in the Museum at Paris. Pre- 
sented by M. le Baron Cuvier. Among them are teeth of the 
Mastodon ; jaws and teeth of the extinct animals found in the quar- 
ries near Paris ; paddles and skull of the Ichthyosaurus, &c. 
The drawers of this case contain fossils, from the diluvial deposits 
near Lewes, Bognor rocks, Bracklesham Bay, Castle Hill, near 
Newhaven ; chalk fossils, from the South Downs, near Lewes ; Galt, 
Shanklin sand, &c. 
Cast IV.—The principal contents are from the chalk strata near 
Lewes. 
Compartment A. Ammonites, Nautili, &c. from the chalk and 
I. 
Remains of fishes and shells of great beauty and interest. 
B. Fossil Zoophytes, allied to the Sponges and Alcyonia. A fine 
series of the Ventriculites, first figured and described by the author 
in the Linnean Transactions, Vol. XI. 
C. Mass of Pectunculi, from the rocks at Bognor ; Nautilus im- 
perialis and Pinna affinis, from ditto ; Plagiostoma gigantea, ostrez, 
&c.; Zoophytes, from Warminster Common; presented by Miss 
Benett, of Norton House : from near Bristol, Dudley, Malta, &e. 
_ Several magnificent specimens of fossil fish, from Lewes. In 
some, the air bladder, dorsal fin, gills, teeth, and even the tongue are 
preserved. 
D. Remains of fishes allied to the Murena; groups of palates of 
an unknown fish ; Teredines; Zoophytes.  / hless collection 
of Turrilites, front Hamsay ae Middleham ; an Ammonite, with the 
Siphunculus beautifully exposed ; Nautilus eleesi's ; Ammonites ca- 
tinus ; Ammonites Lewesiensis. 
E. Crystallized carbonate of lime ; wood in chalk ; breccia, from 
Castle Hill. 
Subsulphate of alumine, from Castle Hill, near Newhaven; chal- 
cedony ; crystallized quartz, &c. from near Lewes. 
A beautiful series of Fishes, allied to the Zeus, from the chalk-pits 
near Lewes ; | one of these is a matchless specimen, the mouth a 
open and entire e . 
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