Coprolite is reduced to powder by powerful mills of peculiar construction, furnished with granite and buhrstones, before being treated with concentrated sulphuric acid.
The following analysis of a saurio-coprolite from Lyme Regis is given by T.
An ichthyo-coprolite from Tenby was found to contain 15.
The Suffolk beds have been worked since 1846; and immense quantities ofcoprolite have also been obtained from Essex, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire.
Mary Anning, to whom we owe many of the discoveries made in the neighbourhood of Lyme Regis, her native place, had in her collection an enormous coprolite of the Ichthyosaurus.
Dawson in a coprolite of a terrestrial reptile occurring in a fossil tree, no specimen of this class has been brought to light in the Joggins.
The so-called coprolite bed, found near Farnham, in Surrey, and near Cambridge, contains nodules of phosphate of lime in such abundance as to be largely worked for the manufacture of artificial manure.
In the midst of the winter's distress, one of the most cheering gifts received was from her praying band of coprolite diggers.
On Christmas Day six of these joined our coprolite party to tea, and from eight to ten solemn prayer seemed laid on every heart for them; and again the following evening nineteen young men met to pray still for this village.
It was in 1863 that I first became an almoner for others, whilst filled with a desire to build a missionhall among the coprolite diggers in Cambridgeshire.
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