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3. Vertebrae of [[underlined]] Cetacea [[/underlined]], some of which are referred by Prof. Owen to the Whalebone whales, and others to the Bottle-nosed ([[underlined]] Hyperoodon [[/underlined]]). 

[[underlined]] Pisces [[/underlined]].-- Teeth of sharks resembling species from the Faluns of Touraine, viz. [[underlined]] Carcharias megaladon, Oxyrhina xiphodon, O. hastulis [[/underlined]], and [[underlined]] Lamna cuspidata [[/underlined]]. With these were large teeth of two species of [[underlined]] Carcharias [[/underlined]], one resembling [[underlined]] C. productus [[/underlined]], a Maltese fossil. With the exception of the two last, Mr. Lyell found the same species in meiocene strata near Evergreen, on the right bank of James River in Virginia. 

[[underlined]] Crustacea [[/underlined]].-- A species considered by Mr. Adam White as probably belonging to the genus [[underlined]] Cyclograpsus [[/underlined]], or the closely allied [[underlined]] Sesarma [[/underlined]] of Say, and another, decidedly a [[underlined]] Gegarcimus [[/underlined]]. 

[[underlined]] Mollusca [[/underlined]].--1. Casts of a [[underlined]] Tellina [[/underlined]] allied to [[underlined]] T. biplicata [[/underlined]], a meiocene fossil, and of another near [[underlined]] T. lusoria [[/underlined]]. 2. Cast of a [[underlined]] Cytherea [[/underlined]] resembling [[underlined]] C. Sayana [[/underlined]], Conrad. 3. Three casts of a [[underlined]] Mya [[/underlined]], one of which bears close resemblance to [[underlined]] Mya truncata [[/underlined]]. 

Mr. Lyell concludes, from the various evidence here given, that the strata of Martha's Vineyard are meiocene. The numerous remains of Cetacea of the genera [[underlined]] Balaena [[/underlined]] and