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fissure, which, in the recent stella, is always observable. He thinks, 
therefore, that these bodies must either belong to a species of stellae 
entirely unknown to us, or must be merely the casts of minute stellae. 
Plate I. Fig. 16, is a sketch of a fossil stella figured by Baier, Moni- 
ment. Her. Petrif. Tab. vii. Fig. 6, which he considers as referable 
to small coriaceous pentapetalous sea-stars. 
I am happy in being able to communicate the observations of the 
late Mr. Strange, on a minute species of stellse found at Verona, being 
in possession not only of an engraving of two species of this fossil 
which was executed for that gentleman by Antonius Gregori, and 
which are here copied, Plate I. Fig. 1 7 and 18, but of the manu- 
script account of the fossils drawn up by Mr. Strange himself. 
Plate I. Fig. 18. “ Stella marina fossilis minima, pentagona, stella 
pentaradiata in superficie posita, more echinanthi, et echino-spatagi, 
centro stellae perfecte rotundato ; radiis ferme ovalibus : superficie 
corporis sublaevigata ; colorem praebens, qui ex albo in flavescentem 
leviter vergit. Substantia gaudet calcarea. Invenitur frequens ad 
Castrum Divi Faelicis intra urbem Veronae: naturalem autem in- 
venimus in littore Neapolitano ad Cumas Baiarum.” 
Plate I. Fig. 1/. “ Stella marina fossilis, minima, pentagona, stella 
pentaradiata in superficie posita, centro stellae perfecte rotundo ; 
radiis autem ovato-acuminatis ; superficie corporis laevigata, colorem 
exhibens alboflavum. Eadem substantia gaudet calcarea, et in eodem 
loco invenitur cum altera specie supra descripta.” 
“ Species hasce stellae marinae fossilis pentagonae saepius vidi Romae, 
Florentiae, Bononiae, Veronae, Augustas Taurinorum, et alioquin in 
quam plurimis Italorum musaeis : nihilominus a nemine, quod sciam, 
hucusque descriptae sunt. Inveniuntur tantummodo ad Castrum Divi 
Faelicis, intra urbem Veronae, ut supradixi, in caeteris Italiae provinciis 
conchy liferis nondum vidi.” 
It is with much pleasure I am also able to place before you another 
species of these minute stellites. The specimen from which the 
