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generurn ^ri inclfis illuftrata, &c. in La- 

 tin, atLeyden, 1753, in 4to. This work 

 exhibits Klein's Syftem of Shells, with 

 the fynonyms of authors, and Indexes of 

 ail Lifter's Shells difpofed according to his 

 method. It has twelve plates, w^hlch are 

 but indifferent ; and to it are added two 

 diliertations, viz. on the form, growth, 

 and colours of Shells, and a critical one 

 on Pliny Hift. Nat. lib, ix. c. 33. of the 

 differences of Shells. 



George Geve, a celebrated painter at 

 Hamburgh, publiflied a work on Shells 

 in German and French, intitled. The 

 Monthly Pleafure of Shells and Sea Pro- 

 duclions, with illuminated plates, at Ham- 

 burgh, 1755, in large 4to. This work 

 only gave the Defcription of the firfl five 

 families of Shells, and was well received 

 by the public, but, being pirated, was dif- 

 continued. It had a fyftematlcal order 

 for a ground- work : there are only twen- 

 ty-four plates publiihed, with 265 figures 

 pf Nautili, Pofl-horns, Dolphins, and other 



Snails 



