Excerpt from Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom: Figures and Descriptions Illustrative of British Organic Remains The author infers that the animal from which these fossil ink-bags are derived, was some unknown cephalopod, nearly allied in its internal structure to the inhabitant of the belemnite; the circular form of the septa showing that they cannot be referred to the molluscous inhabitant of any nautilus or coma-ammonia This is, so far as I am aware, the first notice of the existence of a pro-ostracum in a Belemnite. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.