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3. Vertel:)rae of Cetacea, some of v/iiich are re- 
ferred iDv Prof. Owen to the Y/liale"bone whales, and others 
to the Bottle-nosed ( Hype r oo don ) . 
Pisces.-- Teeth of sharks rasemhling species from 
the paluns of Touraine, viz. Carc^naria^s me£aaad.on_, O^g/- 
rhina xiphodon, 0. ha stul is , and Lajmia .cuspi clata . Yfith 
these were lare-e teeth of two suecies of Carcharias, one 
resemhlinff C. -oroductus . a Ilaltese fossil. ¥ith the 
exceotion of the tv/o last. '"r. Lyell found the same 
species in nieiocene strata near Ivergreen, on the right 
hank of James River in Virginia. 
Crustacea."- A species considered hy Mr. Adam 
IhitQ as probably belonging to the genus Gyclograpsus , 
or the closely allied Sesarma of Say 5 and another, de- 
cidedlv a Gegarcimus^ 
Mollusca. — 1. Casts of a Tellina allied to T. hip- 
licata, a meiocene fossil, and of another near T. lusoria. 
2. Cast of a Cvtherea resembling C. Say ana , Conrad. 
3. I'hree casts of a llya , one of ;^iich bears close resem- 
blance to l^ya truncata. 
nr. Lyell concludes, from the various evidence here 
c'iven, that the strata of Ilartha'B Vineyard are meiocene. 
The numerous remains of Cotacaa of the genera Balaena and 
