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FORSKAHL, 



the celebrated traveller, also attended to this subject. In the 

 description of the animals observed on his journey in the East, we 

 find nearly thirty shells, though few of these Avere new. Among 

 his Icones are figures of some of them and their contained animals, 

 but they are very slightl}^ executed. 



There is a good figure of Helix cornea, with the animal, in the 

 Natiirkundige Verlustigingen (or Naturalist's Amusements) of 



SLABBER, 



who has given some remarks on this species. 



We must not omit noticing the Zoophylacium Gronovianum., a 

 description of the rich museum of 



LAUR. THEOD. GRONOVIUS, 



senator of Leyden, where this volume was published in 1781. It 

 contains plates (of the rarer objects), among which are two of 

 shells, with upwards of twenty correct figures; and there is an 

 excellent scientific description of 589 species, conformable to the 

 Linnean method. Some of these have not been described by any 

 other author. 



DE JOUBERT, 



the author of a " Mhnoire sur une Coqiiille de I'Espece des Toii- 

 lettes pechee dans la M^diterranh," merits the same remark as has 

 been made with respect to his countryman Fougeroux, and his 

 memoir occupies the same work. It relates to recent and fossil 

 Anomitp, of which there are several figures. 



K AM MERER, 



a German testaceologist, described the collection of the Here- 

 ditary Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. Though the Avork be 



2c 2 little 



