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Inferior or attached valve. Pecten Beaveri, Sowerby. Reduced to one-third diameter. Lower white chalk and chalk marl. Lima spinosa, Sowerby. Syn. Spondylus spinosus. Ostrea vesicularis. Syn. Gryphaea convexa. Inoceramus Lamarckii. Syn. Catillus Lamarckii. Radiolites Mortoni. Mantell. Houghton, Sussex. White chalk. Diameter one-seventh natural size. The upper or opercular valve is wanting.

It was found among dead leaves at the roots of trees in Fitzroy Island. Helicina stanleyi. Tab. 3 fig. 4. a, b. Testa lenticularis, superne inferneque convexa, orbicularis, acute carinata, fusco-carnea, spiraliter striata; spira obtusa; anfractus 4 1/2 leviter convexiusculi; basis imperforata, centraliter laevigata, alba; apertura oblique sublunata, angulata; peristoma simplex, tenue.

Opening her master's volume again, she read: Tædet coeli convexa tueri. A few minutes afterwards her father entered the chamber to tell her he had at last found the philosopher's stone, but, perceiving his daughter hanging by her girdle, he forbore to intrude upon her, and returned to his laboratory. It was time.

He is not fashioned, veluti pecora, quae natura prona atque ventri obedientia finxit. He is made coeli convexa tueri. The looks that are given him in his original structure, are "looks commercing with the skies." How surpassingly beautiful are the features of his countenance; the eyes, the nose, the mouth! How noble do they appear in a state of repose!