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admit of being completed ; we mean the " Conchology or Natural 
History of Shells" which was published, anonymously, in folio 
numbers, but never proceeded beyond twenty-six pages of letter- 
press and twelve plates. The shells figured are chiefly of the 
genera of Patella, Haliotis, and Serpu la. —The British Qbnckohgy 
was the work that conferred most reputation on this writer; and 
it certainly formed a valuable addition to the natural history of 
our island. He has described many species not noticed by Pen- 
nant, yet some of these are not well ascertained to be natives, of 
Great Britain; nor arc Linnams's synonyms in every instance cor- 
rectly applied. He follows the system laid down in his Elements 
of Conchology . The descriptions are minute and accurate, and 
calculated for both the English and the French reader, each of 
those languages being employed throughout the volume. It is 
much to be wished that every species mentioned in it had been 
figured, especially as the plates exhibit 124 species out of the 
152. These plates are 17 in number, and coloured; but the accu- 
racy neither of the engraving nor of the colouring is much to be 
commended. For the most part, however, the subjects are pretty 
readily recognizable. 
We are glad to have to record in these Testaeeological memoirs 
the name of a female physiologist, 
MASSON LE GOLFT, 
some remarks by whom on the re-production of parts of Muscles 
occur in the Journal de Physique. 
The same work contains an account of lithophagous marine ani- 
mals, written by 
DICQUEMARF, 
The locomotive faculty of certain Ostrece is treated of by the 
same author in the 28th volume of the abovementioned journal. 
vol. vii. 2 d MOLINA, 
