LVI. An account of an encrinus, or starfish, with a jointed stem, taken on the coast of Barbadoes, which explains to what kind of animal those fossils belong, called starstones, asteriæ, and astropodia, which have been found in many parts of this Kingdom: In a letter to Mr. Emanuel Mendes da Costa, F. R. S
- 31 December 1761
- journal article
- letter
- Published by The Royal Society in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
- Vol. 52, 357-365
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1761.0057
Abstract
Sir, I Need not inform you, that the writers on natural history have been much at a loss to discover to what kind of animals those petrified bodies have properly belonged, which are known to us by the name of trochites, entrochi, carpophylloides, encrini, asteriæ, &c.Keywords
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