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("A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia," by Charles Darwin, page 447.

London, 1854.) A fossil species of this genus of Upper Cretaceous age was named by Bosquet Chthamalus Darwini.

See "Origin," Edition VI., page 284; also Zittel, "Traite de Paleontologie," Traduit par Dr.C.Barrois, Volume II., page 540, figure 748.

Paris, 1887.) Indeed, it is stretching a point to make it specifically distinct from our living British species.

It is a genus not hitherto found in any Tertiary bed.
LETTER 52.


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