130 Dr. Maton's and Mr. Rackett's 



An account of the collection of natural curiosities belonging to 

 an Italian nobleman of the name of 



MOSCARDO 



made its appearance at Padua. Several species are figured in 

 this work, those of shells occupying twelve copper-plates, but 

 thev are not very elegantly nor correctly represented. There are 

 no general descriptions, the subjects being noticed only speci- 

 fically. 



There was another edition of these Note published in 16'72 at 

 Verona (the city where Count Moscardo resided). This contained 

 some wooden cuts besides the copper. 



JONSTON 

 (who was a great compiler and copyist with regard to description) 

 deserves but little credit, except for the number of his figures, 

 which were also more highly finished than had hitherto been cus- 

 tomary in these branches of pursuit. His " Historia Naturalis de 

 Exanguibus Aquaticis" contains twenty copper-plates of Moflusca 

 and Testacea, but there is no regular distribution of the indivi- 

 dual figures, nor any remarkable accuracy in their design. 



This author describes a few of the more remarkable shells in 

 his Thaumatographid Naturalis, printed in 1665. 



POWER 

 oives a pretty full account of the structure of Helix lucorum in his 



Exp. Philosophy. 



DE ROCHFORT, 



author of the Histoire Naturellc et Morale des Isles Antilles, is 

 pretty full in his description of the shells of those isles, but with 

 no pretensions to system. His 19th chapter is illustrated by a 



pretty 





