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these circumstances, I consider it to be my duty, to say, in 
respect to the note referred to, that I am confident my old 
friend never intentionally led us into error; nor do Professor 
Forbes and Mr. Hanley state otherwise. The fact is, that 
Dr. Turton was a man of great simplicity, and so far from age 
giving an increase of caution, it appears, with him, to have had 
a contrary effect; if it were necessary, I could relate several 
curious and laughable stories of his bemg duped by the frauds 
of crafty shell-dealers. Whilst I admit that Dr. Turton lent 
too credulous an ear to the impositions of unscrupulous com- 
municators, which has impaired our dependence on the habi- 
tats of various doubtful testacea recorded in his ‘ Conchologi- 
cal Dictionary,’ I trust I have cleared the memory of my 
friend, to whom British conchology is much indebted for his 
care and nurture, from every suspicion of gross and indesinent 
error: we must not forget that Dr. Turton and the excellent 
Montagu fanned the flame of this branch of natural history 
when almost extinct, and its supporters were few and far 
between. 
CRANIAD. 
This family has one genus and one recent species. 
CRANIA, Retz. 
C. anomata, Miller. 
C. anomala, Brit. Moll. ii. p. 366, pl. 56. f.7, 8, and pl. U. f.2 (as 
Norvegica). 
Animal with pale pink, fringed, spiral arms. The ovarium 
is red-brown, and deposited partially on one of the lobes of the 
mantle. Itis taken plentifully in Scotland. It is to be hoped 
that some qualified northern or wayfaring naturalist will fur- 
nish science with a more extended account of it, and of the 
Hypothyris caput serpentis, as I apprehend it will be long 
before an additional recent species will occur. 
