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Sorte de Rastellum de Canton de Basle
Trans.: A kind of rastellum from the canton of Basle

Vegetable impressions on Slate

Fragment d'un Agaric discoïde à zones concentriques
Trans.: Fragment of a discoid agaric with concentric zones

Madrépore étoilé de Lorraine
Trans.: Stellated madrepore of Lorraine [France]

Sundry Fossels, found in Scotland

Detail of Deux Caryphylloides

Deux Caryphylloides, de la Montagne de Randen près de Schaffouse, meme embarras que pirer les précedentes. Trans.: Two caryophylloides from the Randen Mountains near Schaffhaussen [Switzerland], but worse than the preceding

A Petrified Shell-Fish, found on a mountain, in the county of Down, Ireland, called Slieu [Slieve] Donard, which is supposed to be 1056 yards perpendicular highth

Petite Boucardite de Malthe
Trans.: Boucardite of Malta

madreporite

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

Fossil Clams from near the site of the Earth quake that destroyed old Lisbon

cornua

Cornea Anima [Cornua ammonis], taken out of the middle of a large lime-stone, near Bath, in England

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

Fossil Clam Shells, [p]icked up from the shore of the watering place at Lisbon

Alcyonite a raye concentrique, de l'Evêché de Basle
Trans.: Alcyonite with concentric rays, of the bishopric of Basle