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The fossil was purloined from the State Collection in the year 

 1844 ; and the above cut is given, in order to enable scientific 

 individuals, and the curators of public collections and museums, 

 to know and identify it, should it come under their observation. 



The three original fossils from which the following woodcuts 

 were delineated, were also purloined from the State Collection, at 

 the same time (1844) with the Isotelus gigas above described : 



No. 1. BUMASTUS TRENTONENSIS. Emmons, Geol. Rep. N.Y. p. 390. 

 ILLiENUS TRENTONENSIS. Hall, Pal. N.York, Vol.i, p. 230, 



The following description of this fossil is copied from Professor 

 Emmons's Geology of New- York, page 390 : 



No. 1 has not been found in place : the fine specimen from which the drawing 

 was made, was found by a laborer in Hogansburgh, in a boulder of bituminous 

 limestone. The boulder is identical with the black limestone of Montreal, which 

 contains the Trenton fossils. Upon the fragment containing the specimen is dis- 

 coverable a portion of a Strophomena, known also to belong to this rock. There 

 can be no doubt, therefore, of the position it occupies ; but usually where a fossil 

 has been obtained from a boulder, no account has been taken of it. No. 1 is 

 allied both to Bumastus and Isotelus, or seems to be an intermediate genus. It 

 is probably a rare fossil. 



