Historical Account of Testaceological Wiiters. 2H 



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 Avorks 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 Encyclopedie, so unfortunately interrupted by 

 the death of M, Bruguiere. 



WILLIAM GEORGE MATON 



has described, in the Trans, of the Linnean Society, a species of Tel- 

 Una not noticed by Linnaeus. 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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