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any other author before him, or in his time. 

 Thus a later author, Gualtieri by a like me- 

 tonymy, calls his third part, which com- 

 prehends all the univalve turbinated Shells, 

 Cochleae Marinas. Therefore you will 

 find that Lifter, in the fynonyms of each 

 fedtion or family, never repeats the term 

 Buccinum again, but only the very ge- 

 nerical name of the refpedive families, 

 as Patellar or Limpets, Vermiculi, Nautili, 

 Cochlea or Snails, Cowries, Rhombi, &c. 

 and ufes it only again in the very genus 

 of Buccina or Whelks, as the particular 

 name of that family : and in like manner 

 Gualtieri ufes the term Cochlea. 



Thefe criticifms, to difparage Lifter's 

 work, are clofed by an infinuation of a 

 yet more hurtful and envious nature, viz. 

 the very laft lines of his account are thus 

 worded : " One may fay, that not any 

 *' author has thrown fo much confufion 

 *^ on the Hiftory of Shells as Lifter, other- 



*' v.'ife 



