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XIX. Remarks on some parts of the Ani- 

 mal that was cast ashore on the Island 

 of Stroma, September 1808. 



By Dr Barclay. 



(Accompanied by several Affidavits, relating to the' 



Animal.) 



J Had formerly the honour of reading to this 

 Society a description of four of the vertebrae ta- 

 ken from the animal that was cast ashore on the 

 island of Stronsa, one of the Orkneys. The sub- 

 stance of that description was as follows. — These 

 vertebrae, on a cursory view, present a number of 

 the striking characters which are Common to the 

 vertebrae of most fishes. They exhibit, each, 

 two hollow cones, joined at the apex * ; these hol- 

 low cones, formed of concentric circles f ; and these 

 circles the terminations of concentric cylinders, 

 extending between one cone and the other J. 



A number of the outermost of these cylinders 

 are divided longitudinally, by 40 or 50 sulci or 



* Plate x. fig. 4* h. f Id. fig. 3. a* % Id, fig. 4. c* 



