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Foflils, and but very imperfectly defcrib’d by foreign 
Lithographifts *. 
I difeover’d a fingle Specimen of it {fee Tab. I. 
Fig. 3, 4, and 5.) laft Year in the Limdtone Pits 
at ‘ Dudley in JVorceJterfh;re ; and very lately a large 
Mafs of Limeftonc {fee Tab. II.) full of them in 
the fame Place ; both which are now fubmitted 
to the Infpcdtion of this Learned Body, who are 
heft able to determine to what Clafs of the Animal 
Kingdom it properly belongs. I am. Sir, with great 
Regard, 
Hili-jireet , Dec. 20. Tour mofl obedient Servant , 
1750. 
C. Lyttelton. 
* I fuppofe the Dean means Dr. Bruckmann , and the late Mr. 
Linck , an eminent Apothecary at Lipfick : For Dr. Bruckmam , 
in his Centnria Epift. Itlnerar. IVoljfenbuttl. 1742. 4 0 , Epift. 
XXIII. has given feveral Figures of PetrefafUons, very much re- 
fembling thefe Dudley Foffils ; the firft was found at Sterne , a 
Village in the Neighbourhood of Paderborn , given him by Dr. 
Koenig , which he took for a fort of Polypus marinus ; he fays it is 
an Animal unknown to him, but he gives thofe Figures of it, in 
hopes that fome curious Perfons, who live near the Sea, may light 
upon fome Animal refembling this. The Body of this Stone, he 
fays, has, on each Side three ftriated 'Lobes, and three pointed 
appendices beneath ; its inner Subfiance is white, being Selenites, or 
white Spar ; Its Colour on the Outfide is every-where brown, flis 
Friend Linck had fent him Specimens of thefe Stones 6 Years be- 
fore, fome modell’d in W ax, others engraved upon Copper. 
C. M. 
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