Catalogue of the organic remains : which, with other geological and some mineral articles, were presented to the New York Lyceum of Natural History, in August 1826, by their associate, Samuel L. Mitchill.

  • Mitchill, Samuel L. (Samuel Latham), 1764-1831.
Date:
1826
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Credit: Catalogue of the organic remains : which, with other geological and some mineral articles, were presented to the New York Lyceum of Natural History, in August 1826, by their associate, Samuel L. Mitchill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and five species of bivalve shells, dug from a depth of sixty feet and more; with fragments of the crumbling and de- composing gneiss-rock, lying in boulders sixty feet below the surface : with N. Comstock's letter on the appearances, on digging Obed Mitchell's well. 16. Venuses, buccinums, and other molluscous remains, from the maritime border of Virginia. N° II. Second Shelf from the bottom. An extensive and characteristic collection of the fossils belonging to the region south of the Raritan river, and extending from the base of the Neversink Hills to Borden- town, near the Delaware, in a direction from N. E. to S. W. From this singular tract have been derived the following articles, to wit: 1. Enormous gryphites, thick and ponderous beyond example, weighing from six to seven pounds, and of great variety, filled with marl formed from the ruins of other testaceous creatures. 2. Belemnites, four or five inches long; or, more pro- perly speaking, their crystallized nuclei, or cores. 3. Joints of the vertebrae, appertaining to cetaceous animals. 4. A cervical joint belonging to a horse. 5. Part of the leg (tibia) of a mastodon. 6. Broad elliptical substance, evidently the interverte- bral material, or epiphysis of a whale. 7. Several choice and instructive specimens of the jaw- bone, and its excrescences, in the form of teeth ; derived from a reptile of he same kind with that wonder of Europe, called the Animal of Maestricht, or An ediluvial Crocodile. 8. The sandy and marly mass that once filled up the cavity in a shell formerly inhabited by a huge nautilus.