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A piece of horn petryfied abut 8 inches long & 2 1/2 diameter at the broad end, tapering & bending a little towards the top where it broke also & about 1 1/2 diameter

Three pieces of petrifications of roots of trees

A Stony mould of a Kind of Scaled Snail about 2 inch. Long & 1 broad

A Testaceous petrification in the Shape of a heart having Sharp edges all around except on the upperst thicker part

The mould of a Sea Egg [sea urchin] petrified (No. 48.A. Catal.) [catalogue unlocated]

Several Specimens of Fossil wood, impregnated with Bitumen, black & glossy inside

cornua

Cornu ammonis in his matrix Sent from Charleston

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

A fragment of dark grey marble in two, on which are fine impressions of bivalve Shells, striated and of a whitish colour

Petrified wood N Jersey

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

Petrified Sea worms, found in a rock stone, near the head of Timber creek New-Jersey. described in my memorandums

Three fragments of a whitish Stony incrustation round roots and branches of trees from a Cavern near Col. Isaac Zane's Iron Works at Marlboro' near Winchester Virginia

A variety of moulds of the inside of unicorn shells