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MR. BUDDEN is perfectly right in querying the locality of the specimens of sharks' teeth which I mentioned as having seen from a South American digging. In consequence of a slight deafness, I misunderstood my friend's account of them; and knowing them to be American, assigned the word “South” to “America,” instead of to “Carolina,” in the coprolite pits of which they were found.

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CARPENTER, W. Vignettes from Nature. Nature 25, 554 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/025554b0

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