via PRINCIPAL ABBREVIATIONS. 
Beechey (or Beech.) Zool. (or Z.) Gray and Sowerby (the former 
chiefly) in the Zoology of Capt. Beechey’s Voyage, 1839. 
Benson. Benson in Z. sae ; also in Journal of the Newtie Society of 
Bengal, and Gleanings in Science, vol. ii. (1830). 
MSS.  Benson’s unpublished names for Uniones, engraved 
by Wood long ago, but not published until July last. 
Beschaft. Berlin. Beschaftigungen der Berlinischen Gesellschaft 
Naturforschende Freunde, 1775 to 1779. 
Blain. (or Bl.) Blainville’s Manuel de Malacologie et de Conchy- 
logie, 1825 to 1827. 
—— Dict. Sc. Nat. Blainville in the Dictionnaire des Sciences 
Naturelles, 1824. 
Bolten. Museum Boltenianum, ed, 2, 1819. Names, not descrip- 
tions, for figures in Knorr, &e. 
Bon. Bonanni’s Recreatio mentis et oculi, 1684. In Italian, 1688. 
Bose, Hist. Coq. (or des Cog.)  Bose’s Histoire Naturelle des 
Coquilles, 1801. 
Boston (or Bost.) Journ. (or J.) N. H. at times. Boston Journal of 
Natural History. 
Bowd. El. Biv. Bowdich’s Elements of Conchology. Bivalves, 
1822. 
Brande Journal. Journal of Science and the Arts (edit. Brande). 
Brit. Mar. Con. (or C.) British Marine Conchology, 1844. The 
revised Index by Hanley. 
Brit. (or Br.) Mol. Forbes and Hanley’s British Mollusca; vol. i. 
1848; 11. 1849, 1850; mi. 1850, 1851; iv. 1851, 1852, 1853. 
Brod. Broderip; usually in Z. P. or Z. J. or Z. T. 
Brooke or Brook's Intro. Brookes’ Introduction to the Study of 
Conchology, 1815. 
Brown, or Brown, Brit. Cone. Brown, usually in the next work; 
also in Wern. Mem. ii. 
Lilust. (or Il.) Conch. (or C.) Britain (or B.) — Brown’s 
Illustrations of his Recent Conchology of G. Britain and 
Ireland, 1844. 
Brug. or Brug. Dict. (or E. ) Bruguiére’s Dictionnaire des Vers, in 
the Encyclopédie Meéthodique, 1789 to 1792. 
Cat. Mem. de la Soc. de Hist. Nat. Bruguiére in the Mé- 
moires de la Société d’Histoire Naturelle de Pa! 1792. ; 
Jour. N. H. Bruguiere in the Journal d'Histoire Naturelle, 
1792. 




Cail. Mag. de Z, Caillaud in Guerin’s Magasin de Zoologie. 
Meroe (or Voy. a Meroe). Caillaud’s s Voyage a Meroe, vol. iv. 
1824. 

