Historical Account of Testaccological Writers. 195 



FORSKAHL, 

 the celebrated traveller, also attended to this subject. In the 

 description of the animals observed on his journey in the East, we 

 find nearly thirty shells, though few of these were new. Among 

 his Icones are figures of some of them and their contained animals, 

 but they are very slightly executed. 



There is a good figure of Helix cornea, with the animal, in the 

 Naturkundige Verlustigingen (or Naturalist's Amusements) of 



SLABBER, 



who has given some remarks on this species. 



We must not omit noticing the Zoophylacium Grotiovianwn, a 

 description of the rich museum of 



LAUR. THEOD. GRONOVIUS, 



senator of Leydeh, where this volume Avas published in 1781. It 



contains plates (of the rarer objects), among which are two of 



shells, with upwards of twenty correct figures ; and there is an 



excellent scientific description of 589 species, conformable to the 



Linnean method. Some of these have not been described by any 



other author. 



DE JOUBERT, 



the author of a " MSmoire stir une Coquille de I'Espece des Pou- 

 lettes pichte dans la MiditerranSe," merits the same remark as has 

 been made with respect to his countryman Fougeroux, and his 

 memoir occupies the same work. It relates to recent and fossil 

 Anomia, of which there are several figures. 



KAMMERER, 

 a German testaceologist, described the collection of the Here- 

 ditary Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. Though the work be 



j2 c 2 little 



