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Page xxxii - Mémoires de la Société des lettres, des sciences, des Arts, de l'Agriculture et de l'Industrie de Saint-Dizier, tome LX, troisième fascicule.
Page 109 - Beaks moderately elevated above the hinge-line, slightly incurved, situated about one-third the length of the shell from the anterior extremity, connected with the posterior basal extremity by a slightly arcuate, subangular, umbonal ridge.
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Page xliii - County of a museum and library for the illustration and study of its various branches, their associates :ind successors, are hereby declared and created a body corporate by the name and style aforesaid; and by that name they shall have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded in all courts of competent jurisdiction, may acquire by purchase, gift or devise...
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Page 66 - Chemung Group. 5. Oolitic bed (often absent) its greatest thickness 4 feet. 4. Argillaceous sandstone with fossils as below, of Chemung species.... 6 feet. 3. Limestone, irregularly-bedded, concretionary and rarely brecciated, with shaly interlaminations; compact, brittle, ash-colored, apparently siliceous. Higher beds more regular and arenaceous; near the base, a thin band of limestone charged with Chonetes 10 feet.