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of adequate figuring, is a pebble, perhaps entirely natural, 
perhaps slightly artificially rubbed, exhibiting partially 
embedded within it, a fossil of considerable size, (possibly, 
though I do not feel competent to make more than a 
guess at this, of some Nematoid or other worm form.) 
The stone was sent from St. Vincent by Mr. F. B. GRIF- 
FITH, under the impression, the grounds for which I unfor- 
tunately do not know, that it had been a possession of the 
old inhabitants of the island. It was also suggested that 
what seems to me clearly a fossil in it might be some 
kind of inscription. For my own part I am quite pre- 
pared to decide against the latter suggestion. As to the 
former, it is quite possible that even if the stone is 
not at all artificially shaped it may yet have been 
a valued possession of some Red-man of St. Vin- 
cent, cherished, on account of its peculiar marking, 
as an ornament or amulet, If the stone was found 
among other, undoubted, relics of Red-men, it might 
safely be supposed to be itself one of these relics. If, as 
is the case as far as I am concerned, nothing is known 
of any accompanying relics, it should, I think, only be 
regarded as an interesting geological specimen. The 
case is a good illustration of the very great increase in 
the value of a specimen by a record of its place and mode 
of occurrence. 
Last in the collection we come to the twenty one 
specimens of implements made not of stone, but of the 
conchshell. Of these ten are figured (Plate XIII Nos. 
26-32 from Barbados and Nos. 33-35 from Nevis). 
The larger number of these shell implements (see figs. 
26, 27, 28) are fragments of shell just sufficiently shaped 
to make them available as adzes, which was probably 
