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AMMONITES EEOM THE INEERIOE OOLITE. 



much as we have only a single specimen. This, however, is from 

 the Cephalopoda-bed of Bradford Abbas, and in some points it is so 

 much like the A. Moorei, both in its form and the outline of the 

 mouth, that even now we must confess to feeling great difficulty in 

 the matter. 



Note. — Since the above was in type, we have found other species 

 and examples with terminations. These, with the new forms, will 

 described in a paper now preparing for the Society 



Discussion. 



Mr. Chaeleswoeth called attention to the early work in this 

 direction of the late Mr. Chaning Pearse, who studied the Ammo- 

 nites of the Oxford Clay of Christian Malford. That author was 

 led to believe that the peculiar prolongations of the mouth were 

 periodically absorbed and reproduced. 



