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The next in date is Langlus*, a phyfi- 

 cian of Lucerne, in Switzerland, who, in 

 1722, publifhed, in a thin quarto, in La- 

 tin, a New and Eafy Method of Shells, 

 difpofed in their due claffcs, genera, and 

 fpecies, but without a fingle figure. 



This author, in his title-page, which is 

 very prolix, gives us his reafon for not 

 having figures, as he refers to the icons, 

 and recites the fynonyms of the chief au- 

 thors on Conchology, and gives iufficient 

 charaflers to his claffes and genera ; he 

 further notes, that his work was princi- 

 cipally defigned to elucidate the foffil tef- 

 taceous remains. 



* Carol i Nicolai Langli, kc, Methodus Nova & 

 facilis Teflacca Marina, pleraque, quse hue nfqnc 

 nobis nota funt, in fuas dcbitas & diftin£las clalTes^ 

 genera, & fpecies diftribuendi, nominibufque fuis pro- 

 priis {Irii6lur3& potlifimum accommodatis nuncupandi, 

 kc. &c» Lucern^e, 1722, 4to. 



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