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CYPRIANUS, 
the editor of Franzius's " Historia AnimaUum sacra" made very 
considerable additions to that author's description of the Testacea ; 
and though the name of Franzius himself does not seem to deserve 
a separate place in our catalogue, that of his continuator merits 
very respectful mention. His 8th chapter De Testatis embraces a 
variety of literary and physiological matter relative to those ani- 
mals ; some notice is taken of systems, and a variety of references 
are made to preceding writers; but the descriptions themselves 
are too general to be of any use in the investigation of species. 
In 1714 were published the valuable plates illustrative of va- 
rious subjects contained in the museum of 
GOTTWALD, 
of Dantzic. These were not accompanied by any description, 
though they have numbers referring to manuscript notes of the 
collector. The museum seems to have been particularly famous 
for the anatomical preparations it included. The plates are one 
hundred and nine in number, no fewer than forty-three of them 
exhibiting shells. They are executed with no less accuracy than 
beauty, and may be considered as peculiarly useful for reference. 
It is to be lamented, however, that few of the original copies of 
this work are complete; the one possessed by Sir Joseph Banks 
is the only perfect one we have seen. (See MULLER.) 
BARRELIER, 
the French botanist, whose work was edited in this year by the 
elder Jussieu, did not confine his industrious and scientific re- 
searches to plants alone, but was author also of a description of 
certain species of Insecta and Vermes, which is illustrated by 
plates, and comprehended in the volume of his labours. Three 
of 
