34 CONGHOLOGY. 



lead us into fome curious particulars that 

 othervvife would have been unknown. 



Dr. Lifter, in 1678, publifhed his Hift. 

 Anim. Angliae, in which he treats of the 

 Englifli Shells, and gives excellent figures 

 of them, and good defcriptions ; he there- 

 fore defigned this work (his Hift. Con- 

 chyl.) only for exotic or foreign Shells, 

 as evidently appears from the proof head 

 plates of the firft book, N° 8, 25, 33, 40, 

 43^ 65, 74, 83, 99, T08, 125, and 136, 

 which are entitled Cochleae, Buccina, &c. 

 Exotica, but the word Exotica was erafed 

 when he changed his mind to make it a 

 general hiftory of Shells, which probably 

 was at the fecond book, and the erafement 

 of the word Exotica is even now^ plainlj" 

 feen in all thofe quoted plates. 



Dr. Lifter, to complete his intended 

 '.vork, carried home ail the fliells fingly 

 to his daughters, to engrave on fingle or 

 detached copper plates (as is feen by the 

 work), referving their arrangement till lie 



had 



