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



Gualtieri Index teflarum ConchylIo«» 

 rum, &c. in large folio, in Latin, Flo- 

 rence, 1742. This work contains one 

 hundred and ten plates of Shells, befides 

 feveral large tail-plates of Corals. The 

 figures in general are extremely good and 

 accurate, but are oddly placed on their 

 tips or points, as if fpinning. The read- 

 ing or explanation of the Shells, not Co- 

 rals, confifts meerly of his own fynonyms, 

 fometimes fomewhat defcriptive, without 

 any fynonyms or references to other au- 

 thors : fo that it is a rneer Index, or very 

 fterile and imperfect. Befides the dedica- 

 tion to the Emperor Francis III. alfo 

 great Duke of Tufcany, fome account of 

 the work is given in feven other pages, 

 and a Syftem of Tournefort, never before 

 publifhed, and his own arrangement, in 

 lix other pages. 



Jacobi Theodori Klein Tentamen Me- 

 thodi Oftracologicce, fiveDifpofitio Natura- 

 lisCochlidum&Concharum, in fuasclafles, 

 genera, & fpecies, Iconibus finguloruoi 



generura 



