Historical A ccoun t of Testaceological J} 'titers. 151 
cant?" by a plate representing Argonauia Argo iri the act of 
sailing. The author, it seems, was enabled to give an accurate 
account of the construction and movements of that wonderful 
animal from personal observations, on the Indian seas. 
In the memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris for 
1706 occurs one of the most excellent Testaceological disserta- 
tions that had ever before appeared ; it was the composition of 
the celebrated anatomist 
POUPART, 
and had for its subject the physiology and pathology of the Mus- 
cle tribe. The anatomy, habits, and diseases of several species 
of Myt'dus are amply and scientifically described, and there are 
some accurate figures in two plates subjoined. M. Poupart had 
before distinguished himself by a dissertation on the motive power 
of an aquatic Helix, which was published in the " Journal des 
Scavans." 
One of the most distinguished Dutch collectors, contemporary 
with Rumphius, was 
LEVIN VINCENT, 
the description of whose museum, however, scarcely deserves to 
be spoken of here, since it is composed in too general and popu- 
lar a manner to be of any utility to a scientific naturalist; and 
the plates (which, notwithstanding, are well executed) represent 
the several objects in a confused manner, as they were placed in 
the museum itself: yet a few species of shells, as well as of other 
natural curiosities, may be pretty easily discriminated. The de- 
scription we allude to is entitled " Wonder toond der Nature" and 
was published, wholly in the Dutch language, at Amsterdam in 
1706. But this work was afterwards given, in an abridged form, 
in Latin and French, with impressions of the same plates. 
The 
