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Purpura, with learned annotations, fo early 

 *is 1675, at Kiel, in 4 to*. 



He therein gives a method or fyflem of 

 teftaceous animals, which he pretends 

 will immediately, on infpeftion of any 

 one . (hell, capacitate a perfon to place it 

 in its proper rank. For this purpofe he 

 forms ten tables, which are too prolix to 

 ipecify here. It is proper to obferve that 

 his chief merit confifts in being the firft 

 who has formed a method of Shells ; 

 for it is more fpeculative than praflical. 

 It is indeed only good to (hew at one 

 view all the different forms of Shells^ for 

 he does not properly diftinguifli their ge- 

 nera and fpecies. 



"^ Fab. Columns Opufculum de purpura, cym 

 Annotationibus Job. Dan. Majoris, cui adjecit fpeci- 

 men de teflaceis, ad pra;di(5las annotationes illuftran- 

 dum, & infuper ad Concbylia 8c Teftacea reb'qua in 

 Principum Conclavibus difponenda facile inferviendum, 

 cum Di^ionario Ollracologico, Keil^ 1^759 4^^^ 



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