Historical Account of Testaceological JVriters. 135 



The Heli.v lucorum is anatomically described by 



HARDERUS 



in a dissertation entitled " JExamen anatomica Cochlea terrcstris 

 domiportce." This author published also a few anatomical epistles 

 (relative to the genital organs of some of the Univalves), which 

 are annexed to his translation of Marsigli's Avork hereafter to be 

 mentioned. 



The museum of the Royal Societ}^ of London next acquired 

 the celebrit}^ it deserved from the descriptive catalogue of 



GREW. 



This was the earliest work of the kind that appeared in our na- 

 tive language. The shells are described in two chapters (the first 

 comprehending Univalves, and the second Bivalves and Multi- 

 valves), illustrated by four good plates, each of which contains 

 eight or ten species, with the current English names annexed. 

 There is a general scheme subjoined, which remains a proof of 

 the pains taken by the author; but it is complicated, and excep- 

 tionable in many respects. The natural and artificial curiosities 

 at that time possessed by the Royal Society were preserved in 

 Gresham College; they now, as is well known, form a part of our 

 great national collection in the British Museum. 



BUONANNI. 



Contemporary with Grew was the learned Philip Buonanni, an 

 Italian Jesuit, who may be considered as the first author that 

 treated at any length, exclusively, on the subject of shells, and 

 whose figures are very frequently referred to in the Systcma Na- 

 tiira. His work was first printed in his own language, but was 



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