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CATALOGUE. 

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Lowermost Shelf, beginning on the right. 
1. Perrirtep occiput, and clints of horns, from New 
Madrid, on the Mississippi ; cast up by one of the earth- 
quakes in 1811-12; supposed to belong to the North 
American bison, or buffalo.—Captain Hill. 
2. Left side of the lower jaw, with the symphysis of the 
chin, and two grinders, belonging to a fossil mammoth, 
found at Southhold, on the north side of Long-Island, be- 
tween high and low water mark, though they have been 
satisfactorily traced to Kentucky.—My own purchase. — 
_ 3. Joint of a whale’s back-bone, with fragments of ribs, 
covered in part by a ferruginous incrustation, containing 
scallops, oysters, and other organic remains of the salt 
water: from the bank of York River, Virginia, where it is 
reported there are many other relics of a similar kind.— 
Captain Mix and E. J. Townsend. 
(a) Impression of a huge scallop, and other shells, in 
clay. Nottaway River, Virginia. 
4. Considerable portion of the tibia of a mastodon, from 
Louisiana, below New-Orleans.—Jaspar Lynch. 
5. Vertebral joint of some cetaceous animal from the 
bank of James’ River, Virginia.—Captain Prior. 
6. A collection of silicious fossils, from the Honourable 
Captain Redwood of Antigua ; consisting of 
(a) Consummate red jaspers, varied with pale agate. 
(6) Wood and bark of the tamarind and other trees, 
- completely agatized and converted to flint: one of the 
specimens more than a foot in diameter. 
