_ King and Rowney on Eozoon, 875 
_ X. Summary.—Although zealous advocates at one time for 
the organic origin of “eozoonal” Ophite, we now, after a pro- 
longed investigation, and after, as we believe, leaving no point 
unnoticed, feel ourselves under the necessity of totally relin- 
quishing that opinion. 
It has been seen (1) that the ‘‘ chamber-casts” or granules of 
Serpentine are more or less simulated by chondrodite, coccolite, 
gasite, &c., also by the bytryoidal configurations common in 
ermian Magnesian Limestone; (2) that the “intermediate 
skeleton” is closely represented, both in chemical composition 
and other conditions, by the matrix of the above and other 
Minerals ; (3) that the ‘proper wall” is structurally identical 
With the asbestiform layer which frequently invests the grains 
of chondrodite—that, instead of belonging to the skeleton, as 
must be the case on the eozoonal view, it is altogether inde- 
minerals, also to the coralloids imbedded in Permian Magnesian 
ito consideration, also the arguments and other evidences con- 
tained in the present memoir, we 
