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FORSKAHL, 
the celebrated traveller, also attended to this subject. In the 
description of the animals observed on his journey in the East, we 
find nearly thirty shells, though few of these were new. Among 
his Icones are figures of some of them and their contained animals, 
but they are very slightly executed. 
There is a good figure of Helix cornea, Avith the animal, in the 
Itfaturkundige Verlustigingen (or Naturalist's Amusements) of 
SLABBER, 
who has given some remarks on this species. 
We must not omit noticing the Zoophylacium Gronovianum> a 
description of the rich museum of 
LAUR. THEOD. GRONOVIUS, 
senator of Ley den, where this volume was published in 1781. It 
contains plates (of the rarer objects), among which are two of 
shells, with upwards of twenty correct figures; and there is an 
excellent scientific description of 589 species, conformable to the 
Linnean method. Some of these have not been described by any 
other author. 
BE JOUBERT, 
the author of a " MSmoire sur une Coquille de I'Espece des Pou- 
lettes pich6e dans la MSdit err ante" merits the same remark as has 
been made with respect to his countryman Fougeroux, and his 
memoir occupies the same work. It relates to recent and fossil 
Anomia, of which there are several figures. 
KAMMERER, 
a German testaceologist, described the collection of the Here- 
ditary Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. Though the work be 
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