206 Dr. Maton's and Mr. Rackett's 
are represented with the animals for the most part complete ; but 
the engravings are slight, and the shells are intermingled with 
Zoophytes. 
The microscopic subjects described by 
SOLDANI 
are principally shells, which this author discovered at Portofer- 
rara, the island del Giglio, and on the shores of Castiglioncello, 
la Follonica, &c. The work does not exhibit much method or 
science; but the species figured in it are extremely curious, many 
of them being wholly unlike any of the larger and well known 
ones. There are 148 plates, in which the shells are represented 
both of their natural size and magnified. 
As a physiological dissertation on the subject of Testacea, the 
letter of 
BONVICINI 
to Professor Girardi, inserted in the Mem, della Soc. It ah, ought 
to be mentioned here. It contains several curious experiments 
relative to the organ of sight in the Snail tribe. 
In the " Magazin Ency clopt dique" some facts respecting the life 
of the Lepas anatifera may be found. They were communicated 
by 
M. MESAIZE, 
who seems to have had opportunities of paying considerable at- 
tention to this singular species. 
With the year 1789 commenced the Helminthological part of 
the grand work carried on in France under the title of " Encyclo- 
pSdie Methodique" This department had been undertaken by 
BRUGUIERE 
(the well known traveller in the East), who appears to have been 
fully qualified for the completion of the laborious task ; but, un- 
fortunately 
