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M. LAMARCK, 
whose sentiments respecting the Linnean Testaceology we have 
quoted (in a former part of this paper) in support of our own, has 
strong claims to a distinguished place among the writers on this 
branch of pursuit. The Journal d'Hist. Nat., Mem. de la Soc. 
d'Hist. Nat. de Paris, and the Annales du Mus. Nat. contain suffi- 
cient proofs of the close attention which he has paid to the 
order of Testacea. In the first of these works we find some judi- 
cious remarks of this eminent naturalist on the Testaceological 
system of Bruguiere, and in the second he has presented us with 
a sketch of the method adopted by himself. Whether the num- 
ber of the genera employed in the latter (which are sixty-three 
more than are used in the former) ought to be a ground of pre- 
ference, we do not presume to determine; but the system of 
M. Lamarck must be considered as an entire new modelling of 
the Linnean ; and we cannot help questioning whether it has im- 
proved the perspicuity of the original. In the Ann. du Mus. Nat. 
M. Lamarck has described a new genus belonging to his order of 
Crustaces conchyliferes under the name of Tubicinella. — It is from 
this author that we may expect the continuation of the article 
Vers in the French Encyclopedic, so unfortunately interrupted by 
the death of M. Bruguiere, 
WILLIAM GEORGE MATON 
has described, in the Trans, of the Lifitiean Society, a species ofTel- 
lina not noticed by Linmeus. In his Observations on the Western 
Counties frequent mention is made of Testacea found in that di- 
strict; some of which had not been described as natives of the 
British islands before; and Turbo rudis is here first made known as 
a new species. 
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