Mr. Broderip on Volutce, ^ 



March, The Little Stint {IVingapusiUa^) was shot near St. 

 Ives, in Huntingdonshire. 



I have the honor to be. 



Gentlemen, 

 iRyder Street^ St. James's^ Your obedient Servant, 



12th March, 1825. William Yarrell. 



Art. yil. Descriptions of some new and rare Volutes, 

 By W. J. Broderip, Esq, F.L.S. Sfc. 



In the fifth number of the Westminster Review, the writer, 

 while administering a course of castigation in the case of the Rev. 

 T. F. Dibdin and others, who are aiFected by Bibliomania, takes 

 occasion, en passant, to give a coup de patte to collectors in 

 general, " We are always doubtful and suspicious," says the re- 

 viewer, " of the real information possessed by collectors of books, 

 minerals, shells, or any other materials and sources of science ; 

 and we have uniformly found that, in proportion as the rage for 

 collecting gained strength, the inclination and subsequently, as 

 well as consequently, the ability to profit by what was collected, 

 diminished." 



I have not a word to say with regard to the noblemen and gen- 

 tlemen of the Roxburghe Club. They would hardly accept of a 

 precarious defence from one of the uninitiated ; and there is 

 more than one of their own body well qualified to lead a battle 

 of the books. Confining myself, therefore, almost exclusively, 

 to British collectors of Zoological subjects, and leaving all other 

 collectors of all other materials to be their own champions, I shall 

 refer to a few names of the present day, which the omniscience of 

 the reviewer seems to have overlooked. 



The authors of Iloreu Entomologicce and Reliquice Diluviance^ 

 books containing the results of more industry of research and 

 depth of thought than most works hitherto published on the sub- 

 ject of Natural History, are most ardent collectors; and they con- 

 tinue almost daily to give us the practical and philosophical bene- 



