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The English termination lite, which directly proceeds from the Latin 
termination lithus, implying a stony nature, appears to be sufficient, 
if added to the name of any substance, to point out its having sus- 
tained the petrifying change : thus, corallite conveys the idea of a 
petrified coral. But, in some instances, it will be found that brevity 
and euphonia will demand a little alteration in this termination, from 
its not being always capable of easy adaption to the last syllable of 
the name of the substance, which is intended to be described, as 
having undergone this particular change. In these cases, both in the 
Latin tongue and the French language, the tennination ite has been 
employed to denote that the substance spoken of has undergone the 
process of lapidification. By the employment, therefore, of one or 
of the other of these terminations, I hope to be almost always capable 
of clearly designating the petrified substance, with the least possible 
change of received terms. 
Proceeding, therefore, to the consideration of the zoophytes, we 
shall, agreeably to the proposed arrangement, take for the first subject 
of our examination, the genus tubipore; (tuhipora, Linn.) being the 
first of the order of zoophytes in the Linnaean classification. 
Tubiporites is the term applicable to the zoophytes which, in a fossil 
state, compose this genus : the generic characters of which are, that they 
consist of cylindric, hollow, erect, parallel, aggregated tubes. 
These tubes, which in the recent coral form the habitation of an animal, 
most probably of the polype kind, are in the fossil filled, in various 
degrees, with calcareous, argillaceous, or silicious matter, separate or 
combined. In some specimens, in a transparent, crystallized, and in 
others in an opaque, amorphous state. 
The organ-pipe coral, ( tuhipora musica, Linnaei,) so well known and so 
much admired by collectors, for its curious form and beautiful red colour, 
is, I suspect, not known in a mineralized state. The contrary having, 
however, been very generally supposed to be the case, I have thought it 
necessary to be rather particular on this head. 
