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Staffordshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Westmoreland, and Cumber- 
land. 
The avowal which I have now to make cannot but appear extraor- 
dinary to you : — although I have examined several portions of the 
remains of this animal, from most of the counties which I have enu- 
merated, I am unable to speak, from my own knowledge, of any other 
part of its skeleton, than merely its vertebral column, with its lateral 
appendices ; and, consequently, am unable to speak of the charac- 
teristic differences of the animals whose remains are found thus widely 
scattered. A part of a vertebral column of this species of pentacri- 
nus, found in the mill-stream of Samuel Holbrow, Esq. of Leonard 
Stanley, in Gloucestershire, is represented, Plate XVIL Figure 8. 
At the upper part of this column, the terminating vertebra is rather 
enlarged, and has on each of its sides a considerable depression, 
which, with that of the adjoining vertebra, forms a pit, evidently fitted 
for the reception of one of its vertebral appendices. One of these 
vertebral appendices, obtained from this same stream, is shewn, Plate 
XVIL Fig. 7. 
In the Briarsean Pentacrinite it was seen that the vertebral appendices 
issued from every vertebra, and were as closely set as possible. In this 
species, on the contrary, they must have been very thinly disposed ; 
since one series only of these lateral processes appears to have belonged 
to this fragment, which consists of twenty vertebrae. 
That the pentacrini which existed in these parts differed materially 
from the recent pentacrinus, as well as from the Briaraean pentacri- 
nite, is rendered almost certain by the fortunate discovery of the fossil 
Plate XIX. Fig. 3, the representation of which is taken from the 
Fifty-second volume of the Philosophical Transactions. This fossil is 
described, by Mr. Ellis, as the head of an encrlnus, with the rami- 
fied arms drawn up together. It is said to be in the cabinet of Mr. 
Francombe, and to have been found at Pyrton-Passage, Gloucester- 
