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The Helix lucorum is anatomically described by 



HARDERUS 



in a dissertation entitled " Examen anatomica Cochlea terrestris 

 domiportce." This author published also a few anatomical epistles 

 (relative to the genital organs of some of the Univalves), which 

 are annexed to his translation of Marsigli's work hereafter to be 

 mentioned. 



The museum of the Royal Society of London next acquired 

 the celebrity it deserved from the descriptive catalogue of 



GREW. 



This was the earliest work of the kind that appeared in our na- 

 tive language. The shells are described in two chapters (the first 

 comprehending Univalves, and the second Bivalves and Multi- 

 valves), illustrated by four good plates, each of which contains 

 eight or ten species, with the current English names annexed. 

 There is a general scheme subjoined, which remains a proof of 

 the pains taken by the author; but it is complicated, and excep- 

 tionable in many respects. The natural and artificial curiosities 

 at that time possessed by the Royal Society were preserved in 

 Gfesham College; they now, as is Avell known, form apart of our 

 great national collection in the British Museum. 



BUONANNI. 



Contemporary with Grew was the learned Philip Buonanri, an 

 Italian Jesuit, who may be considered as the first author tli.it 

 treated at any length, exclusively, on the subject of shells, ana 

 whose figures arc very frequently referred to in the Systema Na~ 

 tune. His work was first printed in his own language, but was 



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