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NATURAL HISTORY. (FoSsils.) 
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fishes contained in the remaining Cases, 27 to 35 inclusive ; com¬ 
mencing with the Scomheroids, which occupy Cases 27 and 28, and 
the upper shelves of Case 29. 
Among the most ancient of the family of Scomheroids, Cuv., are 
the species of the genera Palceorhynchum.^ Palimphyes, Archceus, 
Isurus, and Anenchelum, in the slate of Claris, of which a suite of 
characteristic specimens is here deposited; the chalk of Lewes has 
furnished instructive specimens exhibiting the dentition of Enchodus 
halocyon.* Among those from Monte Bolca, the more prominent 
are the Carangopsis dorsalis, the Gasteronemus rhombus, &c. ; 
the heads, &c., of a species of Cyhium, from Sheppey, from which 
latter locality are also some species of Tetrapterus, a genus of the 
family of Xiphoids. ( Case 29, lower shelves. ) 
The family of Pleuronects ( Case 29, upper shelves) is represented by 
one genus only, namely Rhombus, having one fossil species, the elegant 
R. minimus, smaller than any of the recent species, from Monte Bolca: 
the specimen here preserved was presented, together with specimens of 
the Semiophorus, by Chambers Hall, Esq. 
In Case 30 (lower shelves) will be found the few remains of Siluroid 
fishes. They consist of some portions of a species referred to the genus 
Pimelodus, from the Sewalik Hills, presented by Major Cautley. and 
the specimens upon w'hich Mr. Dixon founded his species, Silurus 
Egertoni, from the Eocene of Bracklesham. 
Of the family of Sphyroenoids (Case 32, upper shelves), the genera 
deposited are mostly known only by portions of the jaws and teeth, 
such as those of the different species of Saurocephalus described and 
figured in M. Agassiz' great work, where also are to be found several 
delineations from specimens forming part of the series of Hypsodon 
Lewesiensis; these latter placed on the lower shelves. 
All species belonging to the family of the Cyprinoids or Carps 
(Cases 33) are fresh-water fishes. The most interesting of those 
here deposited are the large and most perfect specimens of Tinea 
furcata and T, leptosoma, from Oeninsren—the locality from 
which one of the smaller species of Leuciscus derives its name ; 
the largest species of the latter genus, L. Hartmanni, is from the 
tertiary formation of Steinheim, in Wiirtemberg; the small L. papy- 
raceus, from the lignite called paper coal, of Bonn and Bareuth, 
to which species also the impressions in semiopal, from Bohemia, 
appear to beloncr. 
Among the Esocids or pikes (Case 34), the fine suite of speci¬ 
mens of Esox lepidota from Oeningen deserve particular notice, as 
likewise the large Sphenolepis squamosseus, from Aix, in Provence, 
and the Sphenolepis Cuvieri, of very rare occurrence in the gypsum 
of Montmartre, and named after its illustrious discoverer, by whom it 
was first noticed in his Recherches sur les Ossemens fossiles. 
The Halecoids (Cases 35 and 36), or Herrings, begin with the chalk, 
and are frequent in more recent formations: of those from the chalk, 
may be mentioned the Clupea Scheuchzeru megaptera. Sec., from the 
so-called slate of Claris; and, above all, the considerable suite of spe¬ 
cimens (many of them figured in Agassiz’ work) of Osmeroides, first 
described as Salmo Lewesiensis by Dr. Mantell, by whom they were 
obtained from the quarries in the immediate vicinity of Lew’es, and most 
successfully extricated from the chalk;—from the same localityj and 
