38 C O N C H O L O G Y. 



Petiver, in his Gazophylacium, has 

 copied, in twenty-two plates, Ruiii- 

 phius's figures, both Cruftacea and Tef- 

 tacea, with a meer nominal index ; he 

 ftiles it AquatiUum Anhiialium Aalboinie, 

 &c. Icones & Nomina, containing near 

 four hundred figures ; but never nientions 

 Rumphius's name in particular, or as bor- 

 rowed from him : the figures are very 



indifferent, the fubjefts are confufedly 

 mixt, and the index is very trifling or unin* 

 ftrudive, and often erroneous. 



The Mufeum Kircherianum, by Buo- 

 nanni, in folio, in Latin, Rome 17095 

 this work is rather the defcription of the 

 natural and artificial rarities of the col- 

 ledlion of the famous and learned father 

 Kircher, and not profeiTedly wrote oil 

 Shells; but as the twelfth clafs, or latter 

 part, is intirely on Shells, with their 

 figures and defcriptions, to the number of 

 about fj.\'e hundred and eighty-fix, this 

 book has generally been efteemed as a 



Conchology, or work on Shells. 



It 



