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Pointes d'Oursins
Trans.: Spikes of a sea urchin

cornu

A fragment of cornua ammonia, finely striated in the voluta of a very hard shining Stone

Une petite branche de Corail rouge, avec très petites térebratules marines
Trans.: A small branch of red coral, with very small marine terebratulae

belemnite

Belemnites, ou pierre de tonnerre, il y en a 2 Trans.: Belemnites, or thunder stone, there are two

Two flat pieces of rock stone with impressions of [entrochi?] and other marine bodies petrified

Entroques pentagonales où étoilées, la bleue est de Thionville
Trans.: Pentagonal star-shaped entrochites, the blue one is from Thionville [France]

A curious petrification representing a kind of Naked Snail divided lengthwise in three ridges & channelled transversally, in a flint

Madrépore marin avec des branches de corail, de l'Isle de Corse
Trans.: Marine madrepore with coral branches, from Corsica

madreporite

Madréporite étoilé. C. de Basle Trans.: Madreporite of a starfish, city of Basle

Entroques cilindriques, Ev[êché] De Basle
Trans.: Cylindrical entrochites, bishopric of Basle

cornua

Cornu ammonis in his matrix Sent from Charleston

corne

Différentes Cornes d'Ammon dont plusieurs metalliséesTrans.: Different Cornua ammonis including several metallic

Several fragments of Stones with impressions of Shells

walkill

Bones of a large animal excavated in Walkill, N.Y.

A small collection of Fossils from the environs of the river des lievres or des outawais in canada