130 
Dr. Baton's and Mr. Rackett's 
An account of the collection of natural curiosities belonging to 
an Italian nobleman of the name of 
MOSCARDO 
made its appearance at Padua. Several species are figured in 
this work, those of shells occupying twelve copper-plates, but 
they are not very elegantly nor correctly represented. There are 
no general descriptions, the subjects being noticed only speci- 
fically. 
There was another edition of these Note published in 1672 at 
Verona (the city where Count Moscardo resided). This contained 
some wooden cuts besides the copper. 
JONSTON 
(who was a great compiler and copyist with regard to description) 
deserves but little credit, except for the number of his figures, 
which were also more highly finished than had hitherto been cus- 
tomary in these branches of pursuit. His " Historia Naturalis de 
Exanguibus Aquaticis" contains twenty copper-plates of Mollusca 
and Testacea, but there is no regular distribution of the indivi- 
dual figures, nor any remarkable accuracy in their design. 
This author describes a few of the more remarkable shells in 
his Thaumatographia Naturalis, printed in 166*5. 
POWER 
gives a pretty full account of the structure of Helix lucorwn in his 
Exp. Philosophy. 
DE ROCHFORT, 
author of the Histoire Naturelle et Morale des Isles Antilles, is 
pretty full in his description of the shells of those isles, but with 
no pretensions to system. His 19th chapter is illustrated by a 
pretty 
