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Coordinates: [569, 319, 0, 0, 0, 0], Details: "text"=>["Fig. 48.-Specimen sent to Moebius by Carpenter. k, calcite, supposed intermediate skeleton; s, serpentine, supposed casts of body chambers; w, band of chryolite fibres, the supposed proper wall. (Moebius, pl. 35, fig. 48.)", "S", "K"]; Coordinates: [266, 858, 0, 0, 0, 0], Details: "text"=>["Fig. 50.-Specimen from Grenville, after King and Rowney. c, calcite; s, serpentine; ww, asbestiform layer or proper, with the fibrous structure completely developed in places (d), but in an incipient stage of development and a and b; the latter shows that the layer is an integral part of the serpentine.", "b", "W", "d", "Fig. 49. - Two asbestiform layers (proper walls) on serpentine granule ; the fibres are in close contact on right hand side of specimen. The asbestiform layers are white, the serpentine green and translucent. From Grenville. (After King and Rowney.)", "S", "c", "Fig. 51. - A supposed \"stolen passage\" from Grenville. Consists of a crystal and probably pyrosclerite, patially fringed by an asbestiform layer, and connecting two granules of serpentine. (After King and Rowney.)"]; Coordinates: [652, 877, 0, 0, 0, 0], Details: "text"=>["Fig. 53.-Dendroid crystal of metaxite, obtained by de-calcincation from a matrix of saccharoidal calcite. Figured comparison with figs. 54 and 55.", "Fig. 52. - A specimen similar to the last, but the crystal being too short to connect the granules, the interspace is filled with a white amorphous mass.", "a", "w"]; Coordinates: [151, 462, 0, 0, 0, 0], Details: "text"=>["Fig. 48.- Specimen sent by Moebius by Carpenter. k, calcite, supposed intermediate skeleton ; s, serpentine, supposed casts of body chambers ; w, band of chrysolite fibres, the supposed proper wall. (Moebius, pl. 35, fig. 48.)", "Fig. 49.-Two asbestiform layers (proper walls) on serpentinue granule; the fibres are in close contact on right hand side of specimen. The asbestiform layers are white, the serpentine green and translucent. From Grenville. (After King and Rowney.)", "W", "S"]