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The Helix lucorum is anatomically described by 
PIARDERUS 
in a dissertation entitled " Examen anatomica Cochlea terrestvls 
domiportce." This author published also a few anatomical epistles 
(relative to the genital organs of some of the Univalves), which 
are annexed to his translation of Marsigli's work hereafter to be 
mentioned. 
The museum of the Royal Society of London next acquired 
the celebrity it deserved from the descriptive catalogue of 
GREW. 
This was the earliest work of the kind that appeared in our na- 
tive language. The shells are described in two chapters (the first 
comprehending Univalves, and the second Bivalves and Multi- 
valves), illustrated by four good plates, each of which contains 
eight or ten species, with the current English names annexed. 
There is a general scheme subjoined, which remains a proof of 
the pains taken by the author; but it is complicated, and excep- 
tionable in many respects. The natural and artificial curiosities 
at that time possessed by the Royal Society were preserved in 
Gresham College; they now, as is well known, form a part of our 
great national collection in the British Museum. 
BUONANNI. 
Contemporary with Grew was the learned Philip Buonarmi, an 
Italian Jesuit, who may be considered as the first atfthot that 
treated at any length, exclusively, on the subject of shells, aim 
whose figures are very frequently referred to in the Systemq A«- 
turcc. His work was first printed in his own language, but was 
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