Historical Account o/Testaceological Writers. 159 



Acad. l\tit. Cur. on monstrous shells, and species that fetched a 

 high price at that period. 



Among the Observationei Itariorum Med. Anat. ct Chirurs. of 



ST A LP ART 



is a dissertation entitled " Concha fahis gravida Anscribus," which 

 forms another refutation of the absurd notions once entertained 

 respecting the origin of the Barnacle Geese, and is illustrated by 

 a plate copied from Wormius. The figure is quoted by Linnaeus, 

 though evidently not original. 



JOHN ERNEST HEBENSTREIT 



seems to have been the first writer who thought an arrangement 

 of the Testacca worthy of forming the subject of an academical 

 dissertation. The author makes no fewer than eight classes, six of 

 which comprehend the univalves, and two the bivalves. Attend- 

 ing, like most of his predecessors, by far too much to the innu- 

 merable variations of the general shape of shells, and b} r far too 

 little to the apertures and hinges, he has multiplied the subdivi- 

 sions of his system to a very unnecessary degree. He has also 

 introduced an useless, if not an unphilosophical, distinction be- 

 tween Testacea and Conchylia. 



The museum of Richter, a senator of Leipsic, was described by 

 this author; but the method Avhich he observed in that under- 

 taking seems to have been compounded of Aristotle's, Lister's, 

 and Rumphius's, conjoined with his own. 



DALE 



(the well known author of the Pharmacologic) has inserted in his 

 edition of Taylor's History of Harwich an account of the Testacea 

 found in the country and on the sea-coast about that town. This 



account 



