136 Dr. Matox's and Mr. Rackett's 
three years afterwards put into a Latin form, under the title of 
" liecreatio Mentis etOculi in ObservationeAnimaHumTestaceorum." 
It contains upwards of live hundred figures, not remarkable, how- 
ever, for their accuracy ; the apertures of the Univalves are, in 
many instances, represented as turning to the left instead of the 
right. The descriptive part is loose and desultory, and exhibits 
few marks of scientific distribution, except the general division of 
the subject into 
1. Vnivalvia noil turbinata, 
2. Bivalvia, and 
3. Turbinata. 
In the inferior divisions this author has strangely separated spe- 
cies naturally allied to each other. For instance, the Sei'pula, De«- 
talia, &c. are left out of his first class, and, as well as the Por~ 
cellanea, distributed under the third ; and, w r ith equal want of 
consistency, he places the Haliotis and Nautilus (genera manifestly 
turbinated) among those which he terms Vnivalvia non turbinata. 
But it should be remarked, as a circumstance highly creditable 
to Buonanni, that, in many instances, he has given the loci na- 
tales of his species, which were too little attended to by testace- 
ologists of that age. He has also treated of the formation of shells 
in a manner more philosophical than could have been expected 
at such a period. The subjects for his engravings were obtained 
principally from the famous museum of Kircher, which was 
afterwards separately described by our author under the title of 
" Museum Kirclierianum." This volume contains forty-six plates 
and live hundred and eighty-six figures of shells (besides those 
illustrative of other parts of the collection), and the descriptive 
and physiological matter of Buonanni's original work. 
MAIiSIGLI. 
