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abundant allied Ammonites Ananchytes ancient animals annelid appearance arms beautiful beds bivalves Brachiopods British called Cambrian Carboniferous limestone Cidarids cloth extra cloth limp common commonest Coralline Crag Cretaceous Crinoids Crown 8vo crustaceans Demy 8vo deposits Devonian Edited Encrinites Eocene extinct flint foraminifera formation forms fossil fossil corals fossil mollusca fossil star-fishes fossiliferous frequently Gault genera genus geological student geologist gilt Graptolites Greensand Hill Hydrozoa Illus illustrated boards kinds large number latter Lias lime limy living localities London Clay Lower Silurian Ludlow magnified marine modern mollusca naturalists nearly neighbourhood Norwich Novels obtained occur Oolitic Ostrea Paleozoic peculiar perhaps places plates plentiful Polyzoa Post 8vo quarries recent Red Crag sea-mats sea-urchins seas seen shales shells showing Silurian Silurian rocks species specimens spicules spines stems strata structure surface tabulate corals Three Vols tion Trigonia Trilobites tubes univalves Upper Silurian usually Wenlock whilst White Chalk worms zoophytes
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