56 Mr. Parkinson’s Remarks on Fossils 
Fossils of the Bed of Organic remains without Flints. 
Solen ensis ? Traces of a shell resembling it. 
Fossils of the Grey Chalk without Flints. 
Nautilus . Length 9, depth 6, width 5 inches: whorls oblique. 
On the back are small, closely set, transverse, undu- 
lating striae, which agree in their direction with the 
contour of the shell. Fossils of this description fre- 
quently occur in this bed. In a quarry of building 
stone near to Maidstone, specimens of this fossil are 
found, which display innumerable variations of this 
oblique distortion. 
? A large, transversely striated, excentric nautilus. 
Not knowing whether the forms of this and of the foregoing specimen pro- 
ceeded from accident, or, as I suspect, from the original and natural formation 
of the animals, I have not ventured to give them specific designations. 
. , . . ? ? A hooked multilocular shell, in form like a hamite, 
marked like a scaphite. Outer border rounded, inner 
flat. The radii arising from the outer part are ter- 
minated by the union of two or three on the middle 
of the side, which there form a faint tubercle. One 
extremity is broken ; the other becomes smooth, 
contracts into a groove, and terminates in a mouth 
resembling that of ammonites bilabiatus. Sowerby, 
Min. Con. No. 32. The flat inner border seems to 
render this fossil generically different from the 
hamites ; but this cannot be determined by this im- 
perfect specimen. 
Many of the multilocular shells belonging to the chalk, 
the blue marl and the green sand, such as the nauti- 
lus above described, the hamite, &c. are remarkable 
for the deviations from the symmetry observed in 
the shells of the same order that are found in the 
older beds. 
Teredo annularis. 
