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CONCHOLOGIA ICONICA; 



A 



REPERTORY OP SPECIES OP SHELLS. 

 By LOVELL reeve, A.L.S., F.Z.S., Etc., 



Autlior of the ' Concliologia Systematica.' 



ILLUSTRATED WITH ORIGINAL FIGURES DRAWN EXPRESSLY FROM NATURE 

 OF THE NATURAL SIZE, 



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Of Copper -etching and Lithography in combination, 

 entitled Cupro-lithography . 



The ' CoNCHOLOGiA IcoNiCA,' of wliich hventy seven Parts, con- 

 taining two liimdi'ed and sixteen quarto plates of above seventeen 

 hundred figures, are now published (April 1st, 1845), is intended to 

 illustrate all the known species of Shells included under the Subking- 

 dom MoUusca, whether previously described or not. The subjects are 

 mainly contributed from the magnificent and extraordinary collection 

 of Hugh Cuming, Esq., whose important notations of locaUty and cir- 

 cumstances of habitation are strictly observed ; the author is, however, 

 indebted to numerous scientific and amateur collectors, both in England 

 and the Continent, for the loan of many rare and valuable specimens. 



The plan of publication is to illustrate two genera together, and com- 

 plete each as a Monograph before another is substituted. A Cover, 



