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Les Dellces des Yeux & de TEfprit, ou 

 colleftion generale de dIfFerentes Efpeces 

 de Coquillages que la Mer renferme, com- 

 muniqnee au Public, par George WolfF- 

 gang Knorr, a Nuremberg, Partie I. 1764. 

 II. 1765, III. 1768. IV. 1750. V. 1771. 

 & VI. 1773. The five firft parts contain 

 each thirty plates, and the fixth part for- 

 ty plates, befides the letter prefs or their 

 defcriptions in French, the Indexes, &c. 

 This work treats of the Shells without 

 any order or fyftem, and the figures are 

 for the grcateft part extremely well done. 



Adanfon, Hiftoire Naturelle du Senegal, 

 torn I. Les Coquillages, Paris, 1757, in 

 4to. in French. This author is a topo- 

 graphift, or defcriber of a particular coun- 

 try, viz. Senegal in Guinea. The firft 

 part of the book relates to his voyage and 

 refidencc there from 1749 to 1753. In 

 this relation he only notices the particu- 

 lar cuftoms, &CC, of the people, and the 

 occurrences which happened to him ; and 

 informs us, he defigns to treat of the na- 

 tural 



