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



When alluding to this writer's system, we ought to have men- 

 tioned that, fond as he was of numerous subdivisions, the classi- 

 fication (property so called) is singularly, but not absurdly, sim- 

 plified, all the Testacea being comprehended under the heads of 

 Univalvia and Plurivalvia. In the latter Ave find the genera of 

 Concha anatiferce and Balani (united by Linnaeus under the name 

 of Lepas), which before the time of Major had been very impro- 

 perly arranged either among the Univalves or the Bivalves. 



LEGATI 



is to be mentioned in this place as the author of the " Musco 

 Cospiano," printed at Bologna in 1677- The basis of the collection 

 distinguished by the above appellation was laid by the celebrated 

 Aldrovandus, who was, probably, the first person that formed a 

 regular museum, and whose handwriting still remains affixed 

 to many specimens that formed the subjects of Legati's descrip- 

 tions. Ferdinando Cospi, a Bolognese patrician, afterwards aug- 

 mented it so considerably that his name became attached to it, 

 and the University of Bologna, to which it was afterwards pre- 

 sented, considered it as one of its greatest treasures. In the work 

 of which we are treating, figures of shells are very sparingly intro- 

 duced, but they have the merit of neatness and of tolerable accu- 

 racy. There are ample descriptions of Testacea interspersed with 

 critical and philological matter. 



SIR ROBERT MORAY 



was author of a description, illustrated by a rough outline, of 

 Lepas anatifera, from which the credulous knight asserts that 

 young geese may actually be seen to emerge. His " Relation con- 

 cerning Barnacles" occurs in the 12th volume of the Philosophical 

 Transactions. The 



