dicta mente manuque facit."

He died 1556, in his 63rd year: and his trade was carried on honourably in the same city by his son, Anthony Gryphius. One of the most beautiful books of Sebastian Gryphius is a Latin Bible: it was printed 1550, with the largest types that had then been seen, in 2 vols Gryphites folio.

GYPHITES, in natural history, in English crow's stone, an oblong fossile shell, very narrow at the head, and becoming gradually wider to the extremity, where it ends in a circular limb; the head or beak of this is very hooked or bent inward.

They are frequently found in our gravel or clay-pits in many counties. There are three or four distinct species of them; some are extremely rounded and convex on the back, others less so; and the plates of which they are composed, are in some smaller and thinner, in others thicker and larger, in specimens of the same bigness.