3^ CONCHOLOGY. 



«< wife a good philofopher, and a great 

 *' phyficlan*'* 



I fhould not have troubled my Readers- 

 with fuch unentertaining criticifms, had 

 not Argenville's Conchology been a work 

 fo greatly in vogue among the Colledlors, 

 and fo univerfal, as it is wrote in French, 

 the fa/hionable language. Impreffions there- 

 fore to the difadvantage of Lifter, had 

 not thefe erroneous infinuations been 

 tinted at, muft confequently have taken 

 place in the minds of the curious in this 

 branch of Natural Hiftory, and have led 

 them Vy rejed a moft excellent work for 

 the trivialities of a writer of very inferior 

 merit. 



I will moreover be bold enough to 

 affert, that Lifteri Hiftoria Conchyliorum 

 is a moft ufeful work, as perfed as any 

 other fince publiflied, and of great con- 

 fequence to thofe who make the Natural 

 Hiftory of Shells their ftudy. 



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