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tural hiftory, fully, in other parts of the 

 work ; he therefore begins with the hif- 

 tory of the Teftaceous animals of Senegal, 

 which makes the fecond part of this vo- 

 lume, and is the only one, to my know- 

 ledge, he has yet publiflied. 



This Natural Hiftory of teftaceous ani- 

 mals is illuftrated with nineteen copper- 

 plates, not only of the Shells, but even of 

 the fifli of each family, to the number, as 

 he tells us, of one hundred and eighty-five 

 fpecies, and above four hundred figures: 

 they are moftly well engraved and correfl:. 



Seba's Mufeum, intitled, Thefauri Re- 

 rum Naturalium locupletiflimi Alb. Se- 

 bae accurata Defcriptio, cum Iconibus, 

 &c. printed at Amfterdam in 1758, in 

 large folio, in Latin and French. This is 

 the third volume of the defcription of the 

 fine colleflion of Natural Hiftory of Al- 

 bert Seba, an apothecary, at Amfterdam ; 

 which noble collection has fuffered the 

 fate of moft others, and is now difperfed. 



This 



