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Dr. Ma ton's and Mr. Rackett's 
vVhen alluding to this writer's system, we ought to have men- 
tioned that, fond as he was of numerous subdivisions, the classi- 
fication (properly so called) is singularly, but not absurdly, sim- 
plified, all the Testacea being comprehended under the heads of 
Univalda and Phtrivalvia. In the latter we find the genera of 
Concha: anatifera and Balani (united by Linnseus under the name 
of Lepas), which before the time of Major had been very impro- 
perly arranged either among the Univalves or the Bivalves. 
LEGATI 
is to be mentioned in this place as the author of the " Musco 
Cospiano" printed at Bologna in 1677. The basis of the collection 
distinguished by the above appellation was laid by the celebrated 
Aldrovandus, who was, probably, the first person that formed a 
regular museum, and whose handwriting still remains affixed 
to many specimens that formed the subjects of Legati's descrip- 
tions. Ferdinando Cospi, a Bolognese patrician, afterwards aug- 
mented it so considerably that his name became attached to it, 
and the University of Bologna, to which it was afterwards pre- 
sented, considered it as one of its greatest treasures. In the work 
of which we are treating, figures of shells are very sparingly intro- 
duced, but they have the merit of neatness and of tolerable accu- 
racy. There are ample descriptions of Testacea interspersed with 
critical and philological matter. 
SlPi ROBERT MORAY 
was author of a description, illustrated by a rough outline, of 
Lepas anatifera, from which the credulous knight asserts that 
young geese may actually be seen to emerge. His " Relation con- 
cerning Barnacles" occurs in the 12th volume of the Philosophical 
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